Basic model vs full model.

The free reviewer here runs Kolly's basic admissions model. It scores three of six dimensions and gives you the single most important fix. The full model, available the moment you sign up, was trained on hundreds of thousands of accepted essays. It scores all six dimensions, leaves paragraph-level annotations, generates inline rewrites in your voice, and benchmarks your essay against accepted essays at the specific schools you're applying to.

How the score works.

Kolly reads your essay against six dimensions admissions officers actually weigh: hook, voice, specificity, flow, authenticity, and conciseness. The free read shows three of them so you can see the kind of lift the full product gives. The other three sit behind a free account.

What each dimension means.

• Hook. Whether the opening sentence pulls a reader in. Most drafts open with the situation rather than the moment. The fix is almost always to start later in the scene.
• Voice. How distinct your written voice is. If a paragraph could have been written by any thoughtful 17-year-old, voice is low. Voice rises when the phrasing, the rhythm, and the noticing are unmistakably yours.
• Specificity. How concrete and sensory the details are. Generalities do nothing for an admissions reader. The smell of burnt sugar does. The yellow notebook with the cracked spine does.
• Flow, authenticity, conciseness. Locked on the free read. Inside the full product these get scored too, with paragraph-level annotations.

What this is not.

This is not a grader, an editor, or a guarantee. It is a fast second read that names what the essay is doing well and the one thing to fix first. Run it once, take the rewrite seriously, run it again. Most drafts climb 8 to 15 points across two rounds of focused revision.