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How Prabgun Helps You Organize Your College Applications

How Application Builder keeps each college application's requirements, essays, deadlines and documents in one place — and why you, not Prabgun, submit it.

· Prabgun Team · 6 min read

Applying to college means running several projects at once. Each school asks for something slightly different, the deadlines do not line up, and the essay you wrote for one school rarely fits another without changes. The hard part is often not the writing — it is knowing, at any moment, what is finished, what is missing and what is due next.

Application Builder is the part of Prabgun built for that. This article explains how it organizes an application, what it checks for you, and — just as important — what it does not do.

One application, one workspace

In Prabgun, an application is one school, one program and one admissions cycle. You start one from My Applications: press New Application, choose the school from Prabgun's list, enter your program or major, choose the degree level and the admissions cycle, and create it.

Don't see your target university yet? We're actively adding more universities and application requirements. Check back soon.

Each application opens as a workspace, split into sections you work through at your own pace. Depending on what the application needs, those include:

  • Personal Information and Academic Information — which can copy values from your Prabgun profile, so you are not typing your details again for every school
  • Program Details — the school or college and the program record Prabgun holds for it, when yours is listed
  • Activities, Essays, Supplemental Questions, Testing, Recommendations, Documents and Portfolio — shown when that application has something behind them
  • Requirements and Deadlines — what the school asks for, and when
  • Application Readiness, Application Coach and Submission Preparation — checking, feedback and getting ready to submit

A value copied from your profile is saved in that application. If you later change your profile, the application keeps its copy and shows you what your profile now says, so nothing changes in an application without you choosing it.

Requirements you can check

Knowing what a school actually asks for is where many application mistakes start. For schools where Prabgun holds official requirements, the Requirements section lists them, and each one shows its official source, when it was verified and when it was last checked.

Every application also carries a label describing how much of the school's official requirements Prabgun has verified:

  • Verified Application — Prabgun holds this cycle's requirements, checked against official sources.
  • Partially Verified — some requirements are verified, but not all of them. Check the school's official application for the rest.
  • Builder Available — Prabgun has not mapped the school's requirements yet. Every section still works; you build the application from the school's own instructions.

These labels describe Prabgun's information about the school, not your progress. Schools change their requirements, and the official application is always the final word. If a requirement changes after you have reviewed it, the application tells you which one changed and how, and nothing you wrote is changed. If something looks wrong, Report a problem with these requirements sends it to a person who checks it against the official source.

Essays, with every draft kept

Essays are where most of the time goes. In Application Builder, each essay sits next to its prompt and word limit. Every save keeps a version, so you can compare drafts and go back to an earlier one if a rewrite did not work.

Prabgun does not write or rewrite your essays. The writing is yours.

Readiness: what is still missing

Application Readiness checks one application for what is still missing or worth fixing before you submit. It looks at six things separately:

  1. Content completion — whether each response is written, inside its limit and free of placeholders
  2. Official requirement completion — whether every required item Prabgun knows about, plus any you added, is done
  3. Document readiness — whether the documents and recommendations the requirements ask for are accounted for
  4. Verification status — how much of what the application relies on Prabgun has verified, and whether it is current
  5. Consistency — whether the application names the right institution and program and agrees with itself
  6. Submission preparation — deadlines, and where you will submit

The result reads Not ready, Needs work, Nearly ready or Ready for your final human review, with open items grouped as Blocking, Worth fixing and Worth checking. Clear the Blocking items first.

Readiness measures preparation, not your chances. “Ready for your final human review” means Prabgun found nothing it can check still missing — the final review, and the decision to submit, are yours. Readiness uses no AI generations.

Application Coach: feedback, not answers

Where it is available on your account, Application Coach gives feedback on the application you are building. You can ask it to coach you on the whole application, a single response or an activity description, check the application for consistency, or review clarity and program fit.

Its suggestions are advice. They are not official requirements, they never replace the school's own instructions, and Coach does not write your application or predict a decision. Each new coaching uses one of your plan's monthly AI generations.

Submitting the application

You submit, not Prabgun. When an application is ready, Submission Preparation gathers what you prepared into a Submission Packet — your saved answers, essays with their prompts and word counts, requirements, files and deadlines — so you can move it into the school's official application yourself. Copy takes an answer or essay to your clipboard. Where Prabgun holds a verified link, Open Official Application opens the official application in a new tab.

Then you submit it there, on the school's own system. Prabgun never submits an application for you, cannot see what a school received, and never needs your password for a school portal or shared application system — never type one into Prabgun.

Back in Prabgun, Mark as Submitted records the date and, if you have them, your confirmation number or a confirmation file. Prabgun keeps a frozen copy of what you recorded, called the Submitted Version. After that you can keep your own notes on fees, the status portal, interviews and next steps, and record a decision or a withdrawal when it happens. Prabgun shows what you recorded, not the school's status — the official portal is where news from the school appears.

Files you attach to an application can be PDFs, images or text files. Word documents are supported in Study Materials, but not as application attachments.

How many applications you can build

Starting Application Builder on an application uses one of your plan's applications for that admissions cycle: 2 on Free, 7 on Plus and unlimited on Pro. Applications you have already started stay available if your plan changes. This limit is separate from your AI generations and your storage — unlimited applications on Pro do not mean unlimited AI generations or storage. The pricing page lists every plan side by side.

Getting started

If you already have an account, open My Applications and press New Application. If you are new, create a free account — the Free plan includes two Application Builder applications per cycle.

For the whole journey, from choosing schools to recording a decision, read Prabgun for College Admissions: From Research to Application.

Try it yourself

Every plan includes Application Builder applications — the pricing page lists how many.

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