Essay Rubrics

Each rubric is built for one application and calibrated for consistent scoring. Every rubric page shows what the review checks and the sources it's built from.

158 rubrics · 16 application types

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Common App

Undergraduate personal essays for the Common Application

12 rubrics

University of California

Personal Insight Questions for first-year UC applicants

6 rubrics

UK Undergraduate (UCAS)

The UCAS personal statement — one three-question statement for all five choices

6 rubrics

Graduate (MS/MA)

Statements of purpose and motivation letters for master's programs

18 rubrics

PhD

Research proposals and statements for doctoral programs

8 rubrics

Medical

Personal statements for MD, DO, and PA programs

29 rubrics

Residency

Residency and advanced-training statements - ERAS personal statements and ADEA PASS dental residency essays

6 rubrics

Veterinary

VMCAS personal statements for applicants to DVM programs

1 rubric

Physical Therapy

PTCAS essays for applicants to DPT programs

1 rubric

Nursing

Application essays and short-answer sets for nursing and advanced-practice programs

4 rubrics

MBA

Business school essays, career goals, and leadership statements

12 rubrics

Law

Personal statements, perspective statements, and addenda for law school

9 rubrics

Scholarships & Fellowships

Essays for merit, need-based, and research fellowships

11 rubrics

Immigration & Visas

Personal statements for visa and immigration applications

11 rubrics

Canadian Undergraduate

Personal profiles and supplemental writing for Canadian undergraduate applications

1 rubric

Letters of Recommendation

Letters of recommendation for graduate, medical, and professional programs

10 rubrics

Lenses

Single-topic opinionated reads that work with any rubric above.

Undergraduate Lenses

Single-topic rereads

Focused single-topic reads for any undergraduate essay — run one lens after another on the same draft

6 rubrics

MS/PhD Lenses

Single-topic rereads

Focused single-topic reads for any graduate statement of purpose — run one lens after another on the same draft

4 rubrics

Program partners

Rubrics built for a partner program's own students, not for an admissions application.

Inspirit AI

Designed for Inspirit AI

Research writing checks designed for Inspirit AI students — proposal, milestone, and final paper

3 rubrics

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