For UC Personal Insight Questions and the Common App essay
See your essay the way an admissions reader will.
Paste a draft. EssayRoast checks it against what readers look for, quotes your own words as evidence, and tells you what to fix first. It never writes your essay for you.
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How it works
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Pick your prompt
UC Personal Insight Questions 1–8 or Common App prompts 1–7. Add your activities list if you want sharper feedback.
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Get a reader's-eye review
Six checks readers agree on, each backed by quotes from your essay, plus the questions a reader would ask you.
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Fix what matters first
Up to three changes, in order of how much they cost you with a reader. Revise, then run it again.
We roast the sentence, never the student
EssayRoast is built on one idea about essay rubrics: a checklist reliably catches weak essays, but it can’t define a great one. So it scores only the floor and asks questions about the rest.
Quotes, not vibes
Every judgment cites your own words, so you can see exactly what earned it.
Your words stay yours
Fixes are instructions and questions. EssayRoast never rewrites your sentences or invents details.
Fair by design
It never scores vocabulary, how impressive a topic sounds, how hard your life has been, or whether English is your first language.
No odds, no AI detector
It doesn't predict admission, and it doesn't guess whether you used AI.
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