Personal Statement Grader
Test whether your experiences and motivation connect on the page—without turning your personal statement into a résumé or a dramatic performance.
Editor’s note: Specific experience matters more than an impressive topic.
Personal statement vs. supplemental essay
The Common App personal statement has a 650-word limit and must introduce a way of thinking that can travel across schools. A supplemental essay answers a narrower institutional prompt: why this program, how you contribute, or what you do outside class.
What this grader emphasizes
The rubric asks whether a lived moment makes your motivation concrete. A restaurant shift, for example, matters not because the setting is unusual, but because your decisions, observations, and later reflection reveal something precise. The college essay grader still checks language and grammar, but specificity carries extra weight here.