Kolly is trained on 500+ essays that got into top US schools, and it scores yours the same way an admissions reader would, marking the exact lines holding it back. First full review free.
Over 60,000 students have used Kolly to get into these schools.
Kolly walks you through the whole application. Track every deadline, find scholarships you qualify for, write essays with scoring calibrated against 300+ accepted examples, and read your full application before submit night.
Your application year
Next: Penn ED, Nov 1Add your target schools. Kolly pulls the deadlines, lays out the year week by week, and tells you what to work on next.
Scholarships you qualify for
24 of 361QuestBridge Match
Coca-Cola Scholars
Burger King Scholars
Jack Kent Cooke
Filter scholarships by grade, state, major, background, and deadline. Save the ones worth your time. Kolly drops them on your timeline and reviews each essay when you're ready.
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.
Six dimensions: hook, theme, detail, authenticity, reflection, writing. You get a percentile against students who got in, and Kolly names the exact paragraph hurting your draft most.
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.
Side by side with your draft, from a real student who got into Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn, or Yale. 1000+ accepted essays in the library, free on every plan.
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.
Kolly reads your past writing first, then proposes one edit at a time. Accept the line, the paragraph, or the rewrite. Reject what doesn't sound like you.
Final Read
Submission day
Final Read scans every essay, activity, honor, and letter of rec on submission day. It tells you what's ready and which lines still need one more pass, so nothing slips through on deadline night.
Straight answers on cheating, your voice, pricing, and privacy.
Kolly is the home for your whole college application. Track deadlines, build your school list, find scholarships and summer programs that match you, draft essays next to accepted examples, shape your activities and honors, and run a final read before you submit. It started as an essay reviewer. It's the place the whole application lives now.
ChatGPT writes essays for you and forgets the rest of your application. Kolly helps you build the whole application: school list, deadlines, scholarships, summer programs, essays, activities, honors, and a final read before you submit. It was built specifically for college admissions, and its scoring system was calibrated against accepted essays from top US schools. ChatGPT gives anyone an essay. Kolly makes your whole application stronger.
Cheating is when someone else writes your application and you submit it as yours. Kolly is closer to what a $300/hr private counselor does: helps you plan, drafts, rewrites, sharpens, until each piece 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 application. Use it like a great teacher and you've done what every accepted student does, just without the price tag.
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. Every suggestion is yours to accept, reject, or rewrite, so what you submit is what you wrote.
Most students start with the school list, then look at scholarships and summer programs, then their first essay. Kolly meets you wherever you are. Blank page? Kolly will brainstorm topics with you, 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.
Yes. Share any essay with a private link. They leave comments and suggestions, you decide what to keep, and they don't need an account. Most parents tell us this is the first time they've actually been able to help without taking over the essay themselves.
$149 covers six months, then it renews at $149 unless you cancel. That works out to $24.83 a month, $25 less than six months of the monthly plan. Six months is one full application season: unlimited reviews on every essay, activity, honor, and letter of rec, school-by-school strategy, mock admissions committee, and a final read before you submit. You can cancel any time from dashboard settings and keep access through the end of the period you already paid for, so if you're done after one season you won't be charged again.
Then start free. The free tier covers the full application home: school list, deadlines, scholarship finder, summer program finder, and the accepted essay library, plus one full review of your essay. If you want more reviews but don't need a full season, the $29 monthly plan covers everything in the Pass and you can cancel any time.
Yes, privately, in your account. Only you can see your essays, school list, and uploads, 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 anything or your entire account whenever you want, and it's gone for good. We keep no copies and can't recover it.
No. Your essays and the rest of your application stay 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 help across the whole application, from school list to final read, for the cost of one consultant hour. The same coaching at a fraction of the cost.
Yes, both plans. The Season Pass renews every six months and the monthly plan renews each month; cancel either any time from your dashboard settings. Your access continues until the end of the period you've already paid for. A Season Pass a parent paid for from a payment link, or one bought before July 2026, is a single charge with no renewal, so there's nothing to cancel.
Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. Email founders@kolly.ai.
Your application home, deadline timeline, scholarship finder, and one full Kolly review of your essay are free. No card, no trial countdown.