Using Accepted’s AI tools for application writing

In Accepted, Personal Statement helps you prepare the three UCAS personal-statement answers or a Common App essay. Generate Guide provides a preparation guide; Review my draft gives feedback on your own draft. You choose what to say and write the answers or essay yourself. Use the guide to identify useful material, write from your own notes and decide how to respond to feedback.

Motivation Letter helps you prepare a motivation letter with Generate Guide and get feedback through Review my draft. It also offers Rough Draft Scaffold: an AI-generated sample for reference, not for submission. Do not copy it into an application or treat changing a few words as writing your own letter.

CV Builder works differently: Accepted can generate and revise a CV draft. Check every qualification, date, activity and description against your own experience, and follow the instructions for the application you are making. Availability of a tool does not establish permission to use its output.

Your UCAS answers, Common App essay or motivation letter should explain your interests and experiences in your own words. An artificial intelligence (AI) tool may help you examine a draft or organise your thinking where the rules permit it. It cannot supply your memories, decide what an experience meant to you or establish that a statement is true.

Begin with what you have actually done and thought about. A class discussion, a problem you investigated, a project that changed direction or something you read can provide useful material. You do not need to turn every experience into a dramatic achievement. Be precise about your role, what happened and what you learned.

Check the application platform's guidance and the institution's own instructions before using a tool. Look for rules about AI assistance, outside editing, translation and any declaration you must make. Permission for one task or application does not establish permission for another. If the instructions are unclear, ask the admissions office about the specific assistance you intend to use.

UCAS, the UK's university application service, asks applicants to confirm that their statement was not copied or supplied by another source, including an AI tool. Its AI guidance describes help with ideas, structure and readability, while warning against submitting generated writing as your own.

Common App, a university application platform, includes intentionally presenting substantive AI output as your own original work in its fraud policy. The policy does not list every permitted editing task. Check the relevant institution's instructions as well. Do not treat UCAS examples as permission for a Common App essay or another application.

Before using a preparation guide for your answers, essay or motivation letter, make notes in your own language. What interested you? What did you do yourself? What was difficult? What did you change your mind about? Separate your contribution from work done by a group or by someone supervising you.

Where the rules allow assistance, a narrowly framed request can keep the work with you. In a discussion with someone helping you, or with a tool that accepts questions, you could ask: “Which ideas in these notes are unclear? Ask me questions rather than writing replacement text.” Another useful request is to identify a claim that needs a concrete example. You still decide which questions matter and answer them from your own experience. For feedback within Accepted, provide your own answers, essay or letter through Review my draft.

If a tool suggests an experience, skill or opinion you do not have, leave it out. Do not turn a suggested activity into something you claim to have completed. If an idea interests you, investigate it yourself before deciding whether it belongs in your application.

Use Generate Guide in Personal Statement or Motivation Letter to plan what to include, then write your own answers, essay or letter from your notes. Follow the actual questions and limits for that application, rather than trying to fit a generic essay into every application. A useful paragraph should help the reader understand a particular interest, action or reflection; it need not sound grand or unusually formal.

Where the application rules allow AI feedback, Accepted’s Review my draft can help you identify unclear passages, repetition and missing examples in your answers, essay or letter. Decide which suggestions to use and make the changes yourself. The same care applies to advice from a friend, an editor or a tool: help should not replace your account of your own experience.

Be especially careful with suggested rewrites. Changing a few words in an AI-written paragraph does not establish that the thinking and writing are yours. A generated story does not become your experience after editing. Return to your notes and write what you can honestly explain.

Read each claim in your answers, essay, motivation letter or CV against what actually happened. Check names, dates, qualifications and descriptions of your role. If the draft refers to a book, project or course, make sure you understand the reference and that it is accurate.

Before putting an essay, letter, CV or supporting material into Accepted or another tool, consider what it contains and read the service’s privacy information. Avoid sharing other people’s private information or documents you have no reason to upload. A request for writing feedback does not require every detail of your personal or family circumstances.

Keep your notes and successive drafts so you can follow your own decisions. This is a useful working record, not a guarantee that an application satisfies every rule. Read any declaration carefully before agreeing to it, and give any disclosure the application requires.