About EssayScore

Last updated: 2026-11-13

Who makes it and why

EssayScore is a small free tool built by an independent developer. Students who apply to US colleges often have nobody to read a draft before the deadline, and a vague "looks good" does not help. This tool gives a fixed scorecard and shows the lines from your essay behind each score.

How a grade is made

• An AI model (gpt-oss, running on Cloudflare) reads your essay against six criteria: voice, specific detail, reflection, structure, prompt fit, and language. Each is scored 1 to 5.
• The total and the band are added up by our server, not taken from the model. A score of 4 or 5 must quote a sentence that really appears in your essay. If the quote cannot be found in your text, that score is lowered to 3 and marked.
• The scorecard is our own writing. It is not calibrated on real admissions files, and it does not predict admission.

What we do not do

• We do not rewrite or polish your sentences, and we do not check whether text was written by AI.
• We do not store your essay. See the privacy page.

Updates

Prompt names and limits are checked against the Common App and UC sites when they change. The date at the top of this page is the last time we edited it. Questions or errors: Contact.