Who this page is for
For applicants revising personal statements, supplemental essays, and short activity descriptions in English, including multilingual students who want clearer expression without replacing their individual voice.
Start with the prompt, not a more impressive vocabulary
Read the exact prompt beside your draft. A response about community should explain your relationship to that community; an answer about academic interests should connect an actual question or experience to your proposed studies. Smoother language cannot rescue a response that answers a different question.
Choose a passage you wrote and identify the specific problem: repeated sentence openings, an unclear transition, or a conclusion that repeats the introduction. Ask for a limited revision rather than a new narrative. In Standard mode, review every proposed change for meaning. Reject invented motivations, dramatic turning points, or confident career plans you do not hold.
For natural English, prefer precise everyday verbs over inflated expressions. 'I organized the schedule' usually communicates more than 'I spearheaded logistical optimization.' Keep technical vocabulary when it accurately describes your work.
Protect the details that make the application yours
Mark facts that must survive revision unchanged: activity dates, hours, job titles, awards, team sizes, project dimensions, and numerical results. Do not let 'helped' become 'led,' or a team achievement become an individual accomplishment. Cross-check the revised essay against your activities list and application form so the same experience is described consistently.
For a 'Why this college?' supplement, verify course names, program availability, and undergraduate access using current official university pages. Do not assume a laboratory welcomes first-year students or that an advertised course runs every semester. If you quote or cite a source, preserve its wording, attribution, and connection to the claim; stylistic revision must not turn a paraphrase into a quotation.
Multilingual applicants need not erase every distinctive expression. Correct ambiguity and unintended grammar errors while retaining language that feels comfortable when read aloud.
Finish with an authorship and submission check
Save your original draft and keep a revision history showing what assistance you used. Follow any required disclosure instructions honestly. If a college prohibits AI rewriting, do not use generated revisions in that application; seek permitted feedback instead. A natural-sounding result does not establish that the process was allowed.
After editing, count words or characters in the destination field. Different application components have different limits, and pasted formatting can behave unexpectedly. Check paragraph breaks and punctuation in the submission preview. Read the essay aloud, asking whether you would use these words in conversation with an admissions interviewer.
Humanizely allows free requests of up to 500 words. If permitted, review a longer essay in coherent passages, then check the complete draft for repetition and continuity. No tool can guarantee admission or a detector outcome.
