HiOfferFrom school list to offer.
Carefully, with your AI.
PhD applications are something you can do yourself — and now, with your AI. HiOffer is the trustworthy, meticulous agent that reads the official pages, finds the advisors who fit, writes with sources, rehearses the interview with you, and leaves the sending to you.
- Nothing invented: every claim has a source
- Nothing missed: deadlines, letters, fees, all dated
- Nothing sent without you
Choosing where to apply
Six modules, one conversation
Each module is a page you can manage by hand, and a set of things the agent does for you in chat.
01 · Find programs
Where is your research actually happening?
- Counts recent papers on your topics per university, from OpenAlex
- Tiers reach / match / safety with the counts as evidence
- Never states admit rates or deadlines it has not read
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
OpenAlex · parameter-efficient fine-tuning / tokenizer adaptation multilingual / code-switching evaluation
reach
- Carnegie Mellon University197 papers
- Stanford University116 papers
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology75 papers
match
- Johns Hopkins University87 papers
- University of Pennsylvania77 papers
- Georgia Institute of Technology85 papers
safety
- Northeastern University74 papers
- University of Florida37 papers
- Purdue University West Lafayette36 papers
02 · Check requirements
Every rule, with the sentence it came from.
- Reads the official admissions pages and follows the right links
- Deadline, fee, letters, statements, tests: each with URL + quote
- Marks what it could not find instead of guessing
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
University of Washington CSE PhD
- deadlinerequiredDecember 15 (or the next business day if the 15th falls on a weekend), 11:59 pm Pacific Time. One cycle per ye“All Ph.D. application materials are submitted electronically through the online application portal and must be received by December 15th (or…”
- application feerequired$90 USD, non-refundable, paid online via MasterCard or Visa.“The UW Graduate School administers the online application portal and collects an $90, non-refundable application fee for all graduate progra…”
- personal statementrequiredOne personal statement (also called statement of purpose). No stated word or page limit. Must address: (a) how“Submit a personal statement of that includes: a) how you became interested in doing research, b) a relevant project or research experience t…”
- letters of recommendationrequiredExactly 3 letters required. Should come from those who can speak to demonstrated research potential with speci“Three letters are required from all applicants. The best folks to write letters of recommendation are those people who can speak to your dem…”
- grenot requiredGRE is NOT required and NOT accepted. Scores will not be reviewed or considered even if submitted.“GRE scores are no longer required or accepted for the Ph.D. program. GRE scores will not be reviewed or considered by the Allen School, even…”
03 · Assess advisors
Professors whose last two years match you.
- Keeps only papers OpenAlex actually returned, with venue and year
- Anchors identity with two sources: faculty page + affiliation history
- Flags whether they say they are taking students
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
Yulia Tsvetkov
Natural Language Processing · Multilingual & Culturally Inclusive Modeling · AI Ethics & Fairness
fit ★★★★★
taking students: yes
identity: two sources agree · University of Washington (2021–2026)
Tsvetkov's lab explicitly pursues 'NLP for All' — extending language technology across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Her 2024 NeurIPS paper MAGNET directly addresses multilingual tokenization fairness for LLMs (the…
- Trusting Your Evidence: Hallucinate Less with Context-aware Decoding NAACL-HLT 2024, 2024
- Don't Hallucinate, Abstain: Identifying LLM Knowledge Gaps via Multi-LLM Collaboration ACL 2024, 2024
04 · Assemble materials
One library, tailored per program, every claim tagged.
- SOP variant within the limit, a fit paragraph per advisor, an outreach email each
- A verifier checks citations, word limits and claims, then sends failures back
- You copy; it never sends
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
SOP · 620 words · 24 citationsverified
In 2025 I built a Tamil–English code-switched evaluation set of 2,400 sentences and tested two open 7B models on it. Both lost 18–26 points relative to monolingual Tamil baselines. People in Chennai do not speak monolingual Tamil to a chatbot; they switch registers mid-sentence. That single result shaped everything I have done since: current evaluation benchmarks, almost all derived from translated English data, hide…
Yulia Tsvetkov · Prospective PhD student — multilingual tokenization and code-switching evaluation
I am Priya Raman, a final-year B.Tech student in Computer Science at NIT Tiruchirappalli (CGPA 9.21/10), applying to UW Allen School for Fall 2027. I am writing to ask whether you are planning to take PhD students this cycle.…
05 · Support the process
What only you can do, dated.
- Email each advisor (draft ready), ask and remind recommenders
- Test scores, transcripts, fee and submit, before each deadline
- Tick things off; the agent keeps the rest
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
- Email Yulia Tsvetkov (draft ready)2026-10-31
- Email Hannaneh Hajishirzi (draft ready)2026-10-31
- Ask recommenders: Exactly 3 letters required. Should come from those who can speak to demonstrated research potential with specific details. Not personal references. Submitted electronically via the application system (Interfolio is not accepted). Letters must be received by the application deadline.2026-11-17
- Send English test scores: Required for all non-native English speakers unless holding a qualifying English-medium degree. Accepted tests: TOEFL iB2026-11-24
- Upload transcripts: Unofficial transcripts uploaded at application time (PDF). Official transcripts are NOT required until after an offer is2026-12-01
06 · Track signals, decide offers
Replies, interviews, admits; then a transparent comparison.
- Log a reply by telling the agent
- Offers scored with visible weights: fit, funding, signals, guarantee
- Decision support, not a decision
Real output for the fictional demo applicant
- 2026-10-20email sentYulia Tsvetkov
- 2026-10-27reply positiveYulia Tsvetkov
- 2026-10-21email sentMarine Carpuat
Offer comparison · visible weights
1. University of Washington CSE PhD$46,000 · 5 yrs
2. University of Maryland CS PhD$38,000 · 2 yrs
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