The college essay grader that shows you what to fix.

Yes. With a free account you get 2 free Quick Reviews each day: focused critiques of your essay against the rubric for your prompt, without scores. Your first Full Review costs $5 and adds rubric scores and AI detection; Pro is $50 for 10 Full Reviews.

Common App personal essays (personal statements) for all seven prompts, the activities list and additional information, supplemental essays such as why us, why this major, community, diversity and extracurricular, all eight UC Personal Insight Questions, and transfer essays, including the UC transfer major-preparation question. Each has its own published rubric, and the same account covers rubrics for graduate, medical, law and other applications.

It reads your draft against the published rubric for the prompt you chose, the same criteria an admissions reader looks for, and returns focused critiques of what to fix. The Full Review adds a score for each rubric area, critiques that point back to the sentence or passage that caused them, specific revision suggestions and AI detection. Reviews are typically ready in about 2–3 minutes.

A chatbot grades against whatever criteria it improvises in that conversation. GradPilot applies the published rubric for your prompt, with the same criteria every time, and AI detection comes from a specialist detector rather than a chatbot judging its own kind of writing.

Yes, in the Full Review. Detection runs through Pangram Labs, a specialist AI-detection partner, not a general chatbot asked to judge its own writing. Independent university studies have rated Pangram among the most accurate AI detectors, with very few false positives. You see a clear, lightly assisted or flagged signal with sentence-level context when available. Treat it as a signal, not proof. GradPilot never reports your essay to colleges or anyone else. Read about the Pangram partnership.

Yes. Every review can be shared with a mentor, counselor or trusted reader, who adds comments alongside GradPilot's feedback without creating an account.

Yes. On Pro, bring back your next draft and GradPilot reviews it against the same rubric, showing what changed and what still needs attention; each draft uses a Full Review. With any review you can also take the feedback into ChatGPT or Claude to brainstorm in your own words.

Yes. Word-limit cuts suggest trims at the word, sentence and paragraph level, guided by your review, and show why each cut is suggested and how many words it saves. Your first Full Review includes two cuts; Pro includes all of them.

It depends on the college. Read each school's published policy on AI tools and outside help before you use any tool; the certification you sign is the rule that applies. Our AI policies directory quotes schools' published rules. Browse the AI policies directory.