Analyze your college essay to detect AI-generated content. Our advanced ML models use 31 different criteria to identify patterns typical of AI writing.
Since the release of ChatGPT and similar AI writing tools, college admissions offices have grown increasingly vigilant about AI-generated content in application essays. The college essay exists specifically to hear your authentic voice — your perspective, your story, your way of thinking. When that voice is replaced by an AI's, the fundamental purpose of the essay is undermined. Many schools now explicitly state in their policies that AI-written content may result in application disqualification or rescinded acceptances.
AI detection tools analyze text for patterns that distinguish human writing from machine-generated content. Our detector evaluates 31 different signals including lexical sophistication (word variety), hapax legomenon rate (unique word usage), sentence variation, perplexity indicators, emotional depth, sensory detail, narrative structure, and voice consistency. AI-generated text tends to be grammatically flawless, stylistically neutral, and lacks the idiosyncratic phrasing and specific sensory details that characterize genuine human writing.
The most effective way to avoid AI flags is to write genuinely. But if you've used AI as a starting point, humanize your draft by: adding specific sensory details from your actual memory, incorporating your natural speech patterns and colloquialisms, including moments of uncertainty or contradiction (AI tends to present everything neatly resolved), referencing specific people, places, and events unique to your life, and letting minor imperfections in phrasing stand. Authentic voices have edges — AI voices are polished smooth.