The admissions read is shorter than you think.
Selective admissions officers spend as little as 8 minutes on a first read — Common App activities, essays, and honors all competing for that window. tillumakeit scores all of these against the same admissions rubric officers use, then rewrites the weak lines and drills you for the interview.
UPLOAD ACTIVITIES LIST / RESUME / ESSAY — SCORES IN <15S
*Source: NACAC's ≤20% admit-rate threshold for “highly selective” colleges; Common App 5-year trend data (applications to selective schools, over 25% acceptance rate, up ~131% over five years); Ivy Coach and admissions-office analyses of first-read review time and daily application volume at selective offices during peak season.
THE NUMBERS
of colleges call the essay of “considerable importance” — one of the few places a generic application becomes a specific one.
NACAC, STATE OF COLLEGE ADMISSION
applications the average first-year applicant now files — every one of them competing for the same short first read.
COMMON APP, 2024–25 END-OF-SEASON REPORT
of applicants and parents rate their stress over the process “high” or “very high” — the file has to work on the first pass, because nobody reads it twice.
THE PRINCETON REVIEW, 2025 COLLEGE HOPES & WORRIES SURVEY
One read. One shot.
The mechanism is the same for both: an overworked reader, a short window, and a rubric that rewards specific signal over a generic list.
Undergraduate studies
Common App activities, honors, and essays framed the way a first-read admissions officer actually scans a file — not a generic resume template.
Graduate studies
Research, publications, and leadership — presented in the register your program's committee actually rewards.
Every move before submit.
One upload. Six instruments. Every one designed against a specific failure mode in the pipeline.
Activities & application score
A 0–100 rating across six admissions dimensions — spike, leadership, progression, breadth, authenticity, and format — with the specific deductions itemized.
Activity rewrites
Weak activity descriptions rewritten to show scope, initiative, and outcome — built only from what you already did.
Major fit score
Tell us your intended major and we score how well your activities and coursework actually support it, plus how competitive your profile reads for that field.
Common App export
Your activities list formatted into the Common App's 10-slot structure, ready to paste in.
Interview drill
Admissions-style interview questions generated from your own activities — with model answers and delivery notes.
Recommendation letter draft
A starting point for the letter, built from your own activities — plus a LinkedIn refresh that ships alongside it, so recommenders and interviewers find a profile that matches the story you're telling.
Three steps to a stronger file.
Ingest
Upload your activities list, resume, or essay draft. We parse it the way an admissions reader scans a file.
Score
Measured against a six-part admissions rubric: spike, leadership, progression, breadth, authenticity, and format.
Rewrite
Accept, edit, or reject each rewrite. Export a Common App-ready activities list, an upgraded resume, and a sharper essay.
Score my application.
Upload a PDF, DOCX, or pasted activities list. Right now this only scores and rewrites that document — Common App export, interview drill, and the rest of the toolkit above aren't live yet. We score six dimensions — spike, leadership, progression, breadth, authenticity, and format — and propose additions from your own activities.
Preview — this returns a score and targeted feedback on your application, not the full toolkit above. The rest ships at launch.