Is there a free AI extracurricular reviewer for the Common App?

Yes. Paste your 10 activity entries and create a free Kolly account. Your first review runs against Kolly, calibrated against accepted activity lists from Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Yale and the rest of the T20. No credit card needed for that first review.

What dimensions does Kolly's AI grade a Common App activity list on?

Impact (does the entry signal real outcomes, not duties), specificity (concrete numbers and roles instead of generic verbs), voice (does it sound like a teenager who actually did the thing), and writing (tight, readable, no padding). Your first review on a free Kolly account scores all four.

What's wrong with most college activity lists?

Almost everyone lists duties instead of outcomes. "Member of debate team" tells admissions nothing. "Top 5 nationally, 1st in state, led 30-person team" tells admissions something. Kolly grades each entry against the way admitted students phrase the same activity.

Is the Kolly AI activity reviewer actually free?

Your first full Kolly review on a Kolly account is free, no credit card. Upgrade for unlimited reviews on every revision, plus the same reviewer for essays, honors, and recommender requests.

The most accurate AI grader for college activity lists.

Name: Kolly AI Extracurricular Reviewer
Author: Kolly

Paste your Common App activity list. Kolly reads it the way an admissions officer does, scoring each entry on impact, specificity, voice, and writing. Then it names the single weakest entry and rewrites it tighter, in your voice.

The free AI activity reviewer for the Common App.

Paste your activity list, create a free Kolly account, and your first review runs against Kolly, in about a minute. Kolly was calibrated against thousands of accepted activity lists from students who got into Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Yale and the rest of the top tier. One real review on us, no credit card.

What you get on your first review.

Scores across impact, specificity, voice, and writing for each entry. The single weakest entry, named precisely, with a voice-preserving rewrite that leads with outcomes. Upgrade for unlimited re-reviews and the same coverage on essays, honors, and recommender requests.

What each dimension means.

Impact. Does this entry signal something a reader cares about? Numbers, outcomes, scope. The fix is almost always to lead with the result, not the duty.
Specificity. How concrete the role is. "Volunteer" does nothing. "Built a tutoring pipeline that served 47 students across 3 high schools" does.
Voice. Whether the entry sounds like a real teenager wrote it. The Common App rewards specificity over polish; entries that read like resume bullets actively hurt.
Writing. Tight, readable, no padding. 150 characters is brutal; every word has to be load-bearing.

Why a Kolly read beats a ChatGPT read.

ChatGPT will make any activity entry sound impressive. That is not what an admissions officer is looking for. Kolly was calibrated against thousands of activity lists from students admitted to Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Yale, and the rest of the top tier. It tells you which entries are pulling their weight and which are doing nothing, the same way an admissions reader would.

How the free review works.

Paste your list, create a free Kolly account, and your first review uses Kolly’s scoring system. One free review per account across essays, activities, honors, and LOR. Pick where to spend it. Upgrade for unlimited re-reviews and the rest of the Kolly app.

Working on something else?

Same Kolly review, different surfaces: essays, honors, and recommender requests.