Kolly is the AI college admissions coach trained on hundreds of thousands of accepted essays. From your first draft to submit night.
Over 60,000 students have used Kolly to get into these schools.
From your first paragraph to submit night. The AI college admissions coach, trained on the essays that got students into top US schools.
Last spring, a senator's office called with a problem they couldn't solve: their AI worked in testing but sat unused in production.
The hard part: making sure the people using it can explain their decision.
I grew up near the White House. Treasury, OMB, State.
Kolly names what's working, the weakest dimension, and the exact paragraph hurting your essay most. With a one-sentence rewrite to fix it.
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See where your draft sits against real admitted essays at the school you want. Hundreds of thousands of them, scored on the same six dimensions as yours.
I've always been passionate about systems that actually work in the real world.
I've been chasing systems that ship and hold up under pressure.
Stuck on a paragraph? Kolly rewrites the line, the paragraph, or the essay. Same voice. You accept or reject each edit.
The summer after my freshman year, I was sitting in a basement of the White House Office of Management and Budget, watching a pilot program quietly fail. The room held three economists, two interns, and the smell of bad coffee. My job, in theory, was to take notes. My job, in practice, was to listen.
Six months earlier I had been writing op-eds about that exact program from a college dorm. I had been certain it would work.
The full library of admitted essays from Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Yale, and more. Browsable, searchable, and free on every plan.
Stanford and Harvard want different things. Kolly tells you which essay to tighten for each, with the move-the-needle revisions per target.
Activities, honors, letters of rec
PremiumThe same paragraph-level read you get on essays, applied to the rest of your application.
The honest answers we'd give a friend at the dinner table.
Cheating is when someone else writes your essay and you submit it as yours. Kolly is closer to what a $300/hr private counselor does: drafts, rewrites, sharpens, until your essay is the strongest version of itself. The difference is you have the final say on every line, and you can afford it. Accept every suggestion blindly and you've cheated yourself out of a real essay. Use it like a great teacher and you've done what every accepted student does, just without the price tag.
ChatGPT writes essays for you. Kolly helps you write a better essay yourself. ChatGPT has read the internet but knows nothing about what gets students into Stanford. Kolly's AI, Reader, was built specifically for college admissions and calibrated against hundreds of thousands of essays that actually got students accepted. It grades your draft on the six things admissions officers care about, proposes one edit at a time, and never replaces your voice. ChatGPT gives anyone an essay. Kolly makes yours stronger.
Yes. Before Kolly suggests anything, it learns your voice from your past writing, your resume, and the personal context you upload. Every suggestion comes one edit at a time. You see the change. You decide what to keep. Most students tell us their final essay sounds more like them after Kolly than before.
No. You're submitting your own writing. Kolly grades and gives feedback, the same way a tutor or English teacher does. There's no AI signature on your final essay because there's no AI writing in your final essay. We even include an AI detector so you can check your draft yourself before submission and rewrite anything that reads off.
Both work. Start from a blank page and Kolly helps you brainstorm topics, build an outline, and write your way through it. Already wrote a draft? Paste it in and get a full review in under a minute. Most students arrive somewhere in between, and Kolly meets them there.
Yes. Share any essay with a private link. They leave comments and suggestions. You decide what to keep. No account needed for them. Most parents tell us this is the first time they've actually been able to help without taking over the essay themselves.
Yes, privately, in your account. Only you can see them, plus anyone you choose to share a link with (a parent, a counselor, a teacher). We never sell your writing. We never use it to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. Delete any essay or your entire account whenever you want, and it's gone for good. No copies, no backups, no recovery.
No. Your essays are private and are not used to train any third-party models.
The college application process favors students whose families can afford a $300 per hour private counselor. That's not most students. Kolly was built so every student gets the same level of expert feedback, on every essay, for every school. Same coaching. Fraction of the cost.
Yes. Cancel anytime from your dashboard settings. Your access continues until the end of the billing period.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. Email founders@kolly.ai.
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