Polaris/Product/Essays & recommendations

Every essay and every letter, still the student's own.

Personal essays, supplements, UCAS questions, statements of purpose and motivation letters, with the teacher recommendations that go with them. Polaris keeps the prompts, the drafts, the comments and the limits together, and its AI asks questions instead of writing answers.

Zara Malik · Why Westbrook?
Prompts

The right prompt, with its source.

Your Knowledge Base holds each college's prompts for the cycle: the wording, the limit, whether it's required and what triggers it. A person checks each one and the date is shown. Prompts that only appear inside a student's own application are added to that student.

Prompt · Westbrook College · 2026–27

"Why are you drawn to Westbrook, and how will you use its community?"

Limit250 words · required
Checked2 Aug · Imran S.
Drafts

Versions, comments and a count you can trust.

Each essay moves from brainstorm to draft, review, final, entered and checked. Comments sit on the words they're about. Words and characters are counted the way the application counts them, and an essay over its limit can't be marked final.

Why Westbrook? · version 4
247 of 250 wordsWithin limit
Imran S.: keep paragraph two about one placeResolved
StatusIn review
Rehnuma on essays

Questions, not ghost-writing.

Rehnuma asks the questions that make an essay specific, drawn from the student's own activities and words. It points out structure, fit with the prompt and sentences that repeat the activities list. Over the limit, it highlights what could go; it never rewrites. Every AI comment is logged on the essay.

  • Brainstorm questions from the student's own activities
  • Feedback on structure, detail and fit with the prompt
  • Consistency across essays, activities and additional information
Rehnuma · on this essay
Paragraph two names Kingsbury. This essay goes to Westbrook.
What happened to the reading lamp after you built it?
Logged7 AI comments on this essay
Recommendations

Every letter, who's writing it and when it's due.

Teacher, counsellor and UCAS references for each application, counted against what each college asks for. Teachers see what they owe; counsellors see who's late.

Recommendations · Zara Malik
Mr. Siddiqui · PhysicsSubmitted
Ms. Rana · EnglishDue 30 Oct
Counsellor letter · Imran S.Drafting
Statements and interviews

For master's applications and interviews too.

Statements of purpose and motivation letters start from an outline of the programme's own criteria and the student's words. Interview practice draws its questions from the student's file before the university or the visa officer asks.

"Why this course, and why now?"

A practice question drawn from Hira's degree, her shortlist and what she told you on the first call.

What was submitted

Checked against what went in.

Students submit in Common App, UCAS and each portal as they always have. Upload the application's PDF preview and Polaris compares it with the final essays and activities, then marks each one checked or shows the difference.

PDF preview · Common App
Personal essayMatches final
Why Westbrook?Matches final
Activity 4 descriptionDiffers
Questions

Asked by counsellors and parents.

Does Polaris submit applications to Common App or UCAS?

No. Students and counsellors submit in Common App, UCAS and each university's portal as they always have. Polaris holds the drafting, the review and the record, and checks the PDF preview against the final drafts.

Does the AI write essays?

No. Rehnuma asks questions, comments on structure and fit, and highlights what could be cut. It never writes or rewrites an essay, and every AI comment is logged on the essay it was made on.

Which applications does it cover?

Common App, Coalition, the UC application, UCAS, OUAC and Canadian university portals, plus statements of purpose and motivation letters for master's applications in Europe, the UK and Australia.

See it on this cycle's essays.