Write your essay where it can be defended

What happens when you write here

You choose the essay — a Common App prompt, the three UCAS questions, or a supplement with its own prompt — and the prompt is pinned above a blank page. The page counts your words against the limit.

As you write, Wizzad keeps each saved state of the page: how much was added in each sitting, and whether it was typed, pasted, or written with Wizzad’s assistant. At the end of a sitting it may ask you one question about the newest paragraph, answered within a minute, in your own words. Nothing is graded.

When the essay is done, you defend it: fifteen minutes, the essay out of sight, questions drawn from the essay itself and from how you made it — what you cut, what you rewrote, and why. The answers are checked automatically or graded against a marking guide, and the result is fixed and digitally signed.

What a reader sees

A study record, on a link you choose to share: the essay named as an application essay with its prompt and its length; how it was made — sittings, and the typed, pasted and assisted counts; the checkpoint questions asked and answered; and the defense as counts — questions answered correctly, explanations graded as full, changes to the piece accounted for.

The record is free to read, needs no account, and carries a signature a reader can check with a public key and any Ed25519 library, without asking Wizzad. A reader may also ask you one question through the link, or ask for a fresh three-minute check, if you allow it.

What it does not do

It does not say whether AI was used. It records what Wizzad saw — what was typed, what was pasted, what its own assistant wrote — and lets you answer for the essay. It does not say who was at the keyboard, and it is not an identity check.

It gives no grade and no verdict, and compares you with nobody. It is a record of what happened, counted, for a reader to weigh.

It submits nothing. Your essay is yours; you copy it into the application yourself, and you decide who sees the record.

Why now

The Common App’s fraud policy treats submitting the substantive content or output of an AI as your own work as application fraud. Caltech’s admissions office publishes what an applicant may use AI for — research, brainstorming, checking grammar and spelling — and may not: outlining, drafting, translating. Harvard and Brown state that they prohibit AI-generated content. Duke’s admissions dean has said that essays are no longer scored for writing quality, because the university can no longer be sure an essay reflects the applicant’s own writing. Each as published or reported by September 2026; read the current policy of any college before relying on it.

A signed statement says the work is yours. A record shows how it was made and lets you answer for it. Wizzad gives you the second.