SOP Coach: seven instant checks today, a line-by-line AI review in beta

A weak statement of purpose sinks good profiles. SOP Coach lives in the student portal under SOP review. It gives feedback in two layers.

Layer one: instant checks

These run on our server the moment a draft is submitted. No model is involved.

• Length against the 500–1,000 words most universities expect.
• Paragraphs: four to six reads well; one block of text does not.
• Sentence length, flagging sentences longer than 35 words.
• Clichés such as “since my childhood” and “prestigious university”, from a list of twenty that admissions officers see most.
• Specifics: results, dates and numbers that back up claims.
• Sentences that start with “I”, when it is more than 45% of them.
• Program named: whether the draft says what the student is applying for.

Layer two: the AI review (beta)

The model scores seven criteria from 1 to 5: clarity, structure, motivation, academic fit, career goals, specificity and language. For each issue it quotes the exact words from the draft, explains the problem and suggests a fix, with at most one example sentence. It never rewrites a paragraph. The statement stays the student’s own.

Students can send up to five drafts a day. A draft is visible only to the student and their counselor, and a counselor can add notes on top of the AI review.