Questions, answered

A workspace for the whole college application process: the Common App, essays, deadlines and each school’s requirements, recommenders, financial aid and final decisions. Students do the work; parents can follow along once the student invites them in.

High school students applying to U.S. colleges, usually in junior or senior year, and the parents or guardians helping them. You need to be 13 or older to have an account.

Nothing during the beta. See Pricing for what we’ve committed to after that.

No. Bema is independent and is not affiliated with the Common Application, the College Board, ACT, or the U.S. Department of Education.

No. You submit on the Common App, each school’s portal and StudentAid.gov. Bema is where you prepare, so that when you get there, everything is ready to paste in.

No, and nothing can do this honestly. The Common App doesn’t offer a way for outside apps to fill in a student’s application, and doing it any other way would mean handing over your login. Bema gives you a copy button on every field and section instead.

Never. Bema will not ask for it.

More than 2,900 U.S. colleges for search and your list, with extra requirement details for many popular schools.

No. It won’t write a paragraph, an opening line or an “example,” even if asked. It gives feedback, asks questions and fixes grammar and spelling in sentences you wrote. Our AI & Academic Integrity policy explains why.

Getting feedback on your own writing is what teachers, counselors and tutors have always done. The line is someone else writing it, and Bema’s AI stays on the right side of that line. Some schools ask how you used AI, so answer honestly.

Each account has a daily allowance that covers a heavy evening of work. Settings shows how much you’ve used. Everything else keeps working if you hit it.

After the student accepts an invitation: overall progress, deadlines and requirements, essay drafts, and the parent’s own FAFSA section. Parents can comment and suggest wording. More on parents.

No. A parent’s suggestion is a proposal; only the student can accept it. Parents also can’t read the student’s conversations with the AI coach or counselor.

Each parent connects on their own and neither sees the other’s account. Removing one parent doesn’t affect the other. The FAFSA planner helps work out which parent files.

Yes, at any time from their Settings. We built it that way on purpose.

Yes. The iPhone app is in beta on TestFlight now, with the App Store to follow. You can also use Bema in any web browser. How to get it.

Yes. It’s one account on one server, so a change on either shows up on the other.

No. Bema refuses to store Social Security numbers, FSA IDs and similar identifiers.

Yes. Settings has “Download your data” and “Delete account.” See Your Data.

Use “Forgot password” on the sign-in page. If the email doesn’t arrive, check spam, then write to getbemaai@gmail.com.