What kind of essay is this?
Takes a position and defends it with evidence
Level
How hard should it mark?
College essay grader
Paste your essay, pick what kind it is, and get a grade with every rubric criterion scored separately. Built for college coursework, and it grades high school, graduate and admissions writing too. Each score quotes a line from your own essay showing why, and names the one change that would raise it.
What you get back
A grade you can argue with
Every criterion gets its own score out of ten, so a B does not arrive as a mystery. You can see that your evidence scored a 7 and your counterargument scored a 3, which tells you exactly where the grade went.
Quotes from your own essay
Feedback that says "develop your ideas further" is useless. Every criterion here points at a specific sentence you wrote. Click the quote and it lights up in your essay above, so you know precisely which line the comment is about.
An order to work in
Most feedback hands you fifteen problems at once. This gives you the two or three that actually move the grade, ranked, plus a paragraph telling you what to do first in your next draft.
The same essay, graded harder
Switch the marking to tough and run it again. If your grade holds, the essay is solid. If it drops two letters, you were relying on a generous reader, which is worth knowing before you hand it in.
What changes when you grade a college essay
The jump from high school to college is not about longer words. It is that the things which earned you an A at school stop counting.
A thesis has to be arguable
At school, naming your topic clearly was often enough. At college, a thesis nobody could reasonably disagree with is not a thesis. If your marker cannot imagine an intelligent person taking the other side, you have written a summary.
Evidence has to do work
Quoting a source to show you read it earns nothing. The marks are in what you do with it afterwards. This is the single most common place college essays lose points, and it shows up here as a low score on evidence next to a decent score on organisation.
The counterargument stops being optional
High school rewards a confident one sided case. College marks you down for it. Grading at College level scores counterargument as its own criterion, which is usually the lowest score on a first draft and the fastest one to fix.
Admissions essays are graded differently
If you are writing a personal statement rather than coursework, pick Personal statement as the type. It scores story, specificity, insight, voice and ending, and it will not tell you to add evidence to a piece about your grandmother.
Getting a useful grade out of it
Paste the assignment question
Half the marks a student loses are for answering a slightly different question than the one asked. Without the brief, a grader can only tell you whether the writing is good. With it, you find out whether you drifted.
Pick the right level
A strong ninth grade essay and a weak undergraduate essay can be the same document. The level setting decides what counts as good, so getting it wrong gives you a grade that means nothing.
Grade the draft, not the final
Running this the night before it is due tells you what you did wrong with no time to fix it. Run it on the draft you are unhappy with instead, when the feedback can still change something.
Then run it through the checker
The grader looks at argument and structure. The essay checker catches the sentence level problems and tells you whether the writing reads as AI generated. Do the big fixes first, then clean the surface.
Common questions
Does this grade college level essays?+
Yes, and college is the default it is tuned for. Set the level to College and the rubric expects an actual argument, evidence that carries weight, and engagement with the opposing position, rather than the five paragraph structure that gets full marks at high school. Set it to Graduate and it expects more again. Grading a first year essay against a graduate rubric produces feedback nobody can act on, which is why the level selector matters more than people expect.
Can it grade a college application essay?+
Yes, choose Personal statement as the essay type. That switches the rubric entirely: instead of thesis and evidence it scores story and specificity, insight, voice, structure and how the piece ends. An admissions essay graded against an argumentative rubric would be told to add a counterargument, which is exactly the wrong advice.
How accurate is an AI essay grader?+
It is close to a careful first read by a professor, and it is consistent in a way a tired human at 11pm is not. What it cannot do is know your course. It has not read the other thirty essays in your seminar, it does not know your marker weighs argument over prose, and it cannot see the reading you were meant to apply. Treat the grade as a solid estimate and the criterion feedback as the useful part.
Does adding the assignment question change anything?+
A lot, and it is the single most useful field on this page. Without it the grader judges whether you wrote a good essay. With it, the grader judges whether you answered the question, which is what actually costs students marks. Essays lose more points for drifting off the brief than for weak sentences.
Which rubric does it use?+
The criteria change with the essay type you pick. An argumentative essay is scored on thesis, evidence, reasoning, counterargument, organisation and language. A personal statement is scored on story, insight, voice, structure and ending. Grading a narrative against an argumentative rubric produces feedback that makes no sense, which is why the type selector is there.
Can teachers use this?+
Yes, and the tough setting exists for that. It is quickest as a first pass: run the essay, see where the rubric scores land, then spend your time on the judgement calls instead of the mechanical part. The report prints cleanly if you want to hand it back.
Will it rewrite my essay for me?+
No. It tells you what to change and why, and quotes your own writing back so you can see what it means. Rewriting it for you would defeat the point and would leave you handing in something that is not yours.