Graduate-school application assistant

Your management platform forgraduate school 

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Upload your CV. GradApp reads it like a faculty mentor — not a keyword search — and matches you to professors whose recent papers overlap your research threads. Every recommendation shows evidence on both sides: your CV + research interest next to the professor's research / lab-work.

Works with PhD & MastersPrivate by defaultUS · UK · Canada · Europe · worldwide
The problem

Finding the right
professor takes
weeks.

Applicants spend days combing through hundreds of university sites, opening faculty pages one by one, reading recent papers, and trying to judge whether a lab's research actually aligns with theirs. Most of that work never pays off.

GradApp shortcuts it. Upload your CV, add a few details about the program you're targeting, and we match you to professors, faculties, and universities whose research genuinely aligns with what you've done and where you're headed.

What we do differently

Three things that make the match actually match.

Deep CV analysis

Reads your whole CV — not keywords — and returns coherent research threads, methodological strengths, and honest gaps. Every claim is grounded in a line you actually wrote.

No keyword matching

Grounded match explanations

For each professor, we explain the fit with evidence from BOTH sides: a quote from your CV next to a real paper of theirs. When a match is a stretch, we say so.

Evidence on both sides

Outreach that cites a real paper

Every draft opens with a specific finding from one of the professor's papers — not a vague compliment. GradApp reads their recent papers and extracts a quotable result.

Zero hallucinated citations
How it works

Four steps. Two evenings.

From an unstyled PDF to a sent email a tenured professor will actually read — without you spending another weekend on a faculty page.

01.
Match

Upload your CV. Get the professors who fit.

GradApp parses your CV end-to-end, surfaces your research threads, and ranks faculty whose recent papers genuinely overlap. Each match is justified with a quote from your CV next to a quote from their work.

  • PDF in, ranked list out — under two minutes
  • Live web discovery + 5k+ indexed faculty
  • Evidence on both sides for every match
GradApp · Match
02.
Outreach

Send cold emails grounded in their actual papers.

Every draft opens with a specific finding from one of the professor's recent papers — not a generic compliment. GradApp reads the paper, extracts a quotable result, and ties it to your work.

  • Real citations only — zero hallucinated papers
  • Editable, signature-ready in one click
  • Tone calibrated for tenured-faculty inboxes
GradApp · Outreach
03.
Polish

Restructure your CV into the elite-school format.

Single-column, action-verb bullets, dates right-aligned, no objective statement — the same template Harvard OCS, Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley career services teach. First polish takes 15-30 seconds.

  • Consensus grad-school format
  • Re-polish in seconds; download as PDF
  • Keeps your tone, fixes the structure
GradApp · Polish
04.
Search

Didn't see the school you wanted? Search any one.

Point GradApp at any university's faculty directory. We crawl their professor list, read each lab's recent work, and rank only the ones whose research actually aligns with your program.

  • Any school in the US, UK, or Canada
  • Fresh crawl — not a stale index
  • Returns ranked profs in 60 seconds
GradApp · Search
By the numbers
Countries covered
3
US · UK · CA
Faculty indexed
5k+
growing daily
First-match latency
~30s
warm queries
Hallucinated papers
0
strict validation
Ready when you are

Send emails that actually land.

Start free. Upload your CV, pick your target program, and your first match is ready in about a minute.