Five traits. One rubric. One score.
Every essay you submit is scored against the same five anchored traits, in one pass, at temperature zero. No black box. No vibes. The same rubric every time, applied the same way.
The five traits we score
Each trait scores 1–5 points. 25 points total. A paid grade shows the rubric anchor that produced each score.
Authenticity & Voice
How distinctly the writing sounds like one specific person rather than a templated admissions voice.
Specificity & Storytelling
How concretely the essay is grounded in real scenes — specific places, named things, sensory detail — versus abstract generalization.
Insight & Reflection
Whether the writer genuinely examines events, or lists them with surface-level takeaways.
Structure & Craft
How deliberately the essay is built — opening, narrative arc, pacing, ending.
Mechanics
Grammar, syntax, word choice, polish. A single typo is not disqualifying; prose that obscures meaning is.
How a score is produced
One pass over your essay, scored against the rubric anchors. The same inputs every time, so the same essay does not drift between runs.
One pass, all five traits
A single scoring run reads the essay against all five traits at once and returns an integer 1–5 for each. There is no second pass and nothing is averaged.
The same rubric and exemplars, every time
The full rubric and the scored exemplars are in front of the grader on every run — not summarized, not remembered from last time.
Temperature zero, structured output
Scores come back through a fixed schema at temperature zero, so a trait can only ever be an integer 1 through 5 against a named anchor.