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What Illuma actually does.
Illuma tool
Common App brainstorm
The prompt that fits your story, before you write.
What it does
Common App brainstorm
Reads your activities, awards, scenes, and prior writing, then maps each Common App prompt to your strongest material and flags where you would land on a recognizable archetype.
Output includes
- All 7 Common App prompts mapped to your background
- Prompt fit + risk flag per prompt
- Strongest anchor material per prompt
- Recommendation: which prompt + anchor combo to start with
Under the hood
ML models + calibration layers, not a ChatGPT wrapper.
Starts with retrieval, not a blank page. Pulls similar profiles from a large corpus, filters through a quality gate, and uses what worked for comparable applicants as scaffolding.
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Peer retrieval over an extensive decision corpus
Pulls applicants similar to your profile, filtered to admitted essays that actually worked.
2
Structural diversity across 12 essay forms
Directions are diversified by structure so you don't get five variations of the same shape.
3
Counselor methodology baked in
Cross-cutting rules from years of admissions reading shape every direction we surface.
4
Cross-school reuse not flagged
AOs at one school don't see another school's essays, so we don't critique reuse across schools.
Ready to try it?
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