Free to start. Transfer Pass is $40 a month, or the Season Pass at $15 a month, billed $90 every 6 months. Renews until cancelled.
Full refund within 7 days, no questions asked. Email support@stairly.co.
See the Transfer PassYou finish the reading and still want more.
You look up another school’s classes at one in the morning.
You go home for break and say it is going fine.
None of that means you failed. It means you grew.
A transfer application is a fresh start with a better story. Your college classes, the research, the job, the club you took over all count now. The student you are today finally gets to apply.
Nobody at your school is paid to help you leave it, and most advice online is written for high school seniors. Stairly is built for this one move, by students who made it.
Your transfer essay or a school’s extra essay. The first full review is free.
A score on the six things a transfer essay has to do, and your biggest problems named.
Official transfer numbers for the places you want, with the source beside every one.
You make the changes, in your own words. The essay stays yours.
Answer a few questions and see your schools, their rates and your next deadlines in one place.
Your high school essay showed who you are. This one has to say why you are leaving, what you did in college and why that school comes next.
The tool scores yours from 1 to 10 on six things and names your biggest problems. With the Transfer Pass, it marks the exact sentences and tells you what to change first.
A made-up essay, marked the way the essay editor marks yours.
I am leaving because my school does not challenge me. Last spring I started helping in a lab that studies how rent rules change where families move. I stayed late most nights, rebuilding the same map until it finally told the truth. This university offers amazing opportunities that I cannot find anywhere else.
The voice check marks sentences that sound generic and shows you why, so your own writing is less likely to be wrongly flagged as machine writing. Detectors make mistakes on real writing, and we say so.
The Ohio State University, Columbus85%3,644 of 4,285 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
University of Georgia65%2,452 of 3,780 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
University of Wisconsin-Madison57%2,652 of 4,677 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
Rutgers University, New Brunswick55%5,218 of 9,473 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
University of California, San Diego53%12,440 of 23,577 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
University of Maryland, College Park53%4,086 of 7,653 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign43%2,882 of 6,639 transfer applicants admittedSource, 2025-2026Every number comes from each school’s official data report, called the Common Data Set, and links to the page it came from.
See all 50 schools$15 a month
billed $90 every 6 months
About the price of 2 and a quarter months of Monthly.
$40 a month
The same Transfer Pass. Stop whenever you are done.
Send one link. They pay, and your pass turns on. No shared logins, no card photos over text, and they can see exactly what you are getting.
A private counselor can cost thousands. You get specific essay feedback and official school numbers for a small fraction of that, and you can start free.
ChatGPT is a generalist, and it can be too nice. Ours is hand-curated for transfers. Your essay is scored against a transfer rubric, and everything is built on hand-checked official school data and what worked for students who transferred.
We never write it for you. The tool points out what to cut, what to add and which sentences are weak, then asks questions that help you find better material. The words stay yours. Each school sets its own rules on AI, so check yours first.
AI models process your essay and write the feedback, and we do not have people read it to make your review. Microsoft, which runs those models, has automatic safety checks, and in rare cases flagged content can go to its reviewers.
We do not use your essay to train AI models unless you agree in writing.
On six parts, from 1 to 10, against a rubric written for transfer essays. The scoring is the same on the free review and the paid plan. It is strict, and it does not predict admission.
AI detectors can wrongly flag writing by real people. The voice check shows which sentences sound generic and why, so you can make them sound more like you. It never rewrites them for you.
Each school page shows its official transfer rate, with the source and year next to it. The chance tool turns that rate and your GPA into a rough estimate and labels it that way. Each college makes its own decision.
Yes. It works for students at community colleges and at four-year schools.
Email us within 7 days and you get all of your money back, no questions asked.
