Life in Admissions
Get a holistic view
Select your best-fit students by assessing for program fit and key traits like leadership, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Save time
Eliminate time-consuming and repetitive tasks so you can focus on getting to know your applicants in a meaningful way.
Make fair decisions
Give every applicant an equal opportunity by building a standardized assessment that will reduce bias in the admissions process.
A grade or a test score only tells half of a student’s story. It’s time to hear the other half.
Get A Holistic View
Select your best-fit students.
Give your team the holistic view they need to make informed decisions.
Get A Holistic View
Select your best-fit students.
Give your team the holistic view they need to make informed decisions.
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Competency-Based Evaluation
Evaluate applicants holistically using customized competency-based questions combined with existing application materials like grades, test scores, and essays.
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Timed Video Assessments
See how applicants think on their feet through unscripted, unrehearsed video responses to your customized questions.
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Timed Written Assessments
Get an authentic sample of an applicant's real-time written communication skills.
Save Time
Eliminate time-consuming and repetitive tasks.
Your time is valuable. Kira is designed for the busy admissions office to help reduce tedious tasks.
Save Time
Eliminate time-consuming and repetitive tasks.
Your time is valuable. Kira is designed for the busy admissions office to help reduce tedious tasks.
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On-Demand Reviewing
Stop scheduling interviews. Each recorded response is accessible on demand and around the world so you can review on your own schedule.
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Assign and Share
Whether your review team is two or two hundred, you can assign roles throughout the organization and review applicant responses independently.
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Integrations
Kira integrates with leading and homegrown admissions systems to create a seamless experience.
Make Fair Decisions
Reduce bias with a structured reviewing experience.
Kira is designed to ensure consistency, flag issues, and summarize team feedback, so your school can make fair decisions.
Make Fair Decisions
Reduce bias with a structured reviewing experience.
Kira is designed to ensure consistency, flag issues, and summarize team feedback, so your school can make fair decisions.
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Independent Feedback
Avoid subconscious biases by generating overall average scores based on each reviewers’ independent evaluation.
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Reviewer Analytics
Achieve greater consistency across admissions committee members by gaining insight into reviewer scoring.
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Rubrics
Ensure all reviewers are using the same criteria by building your custom rubrics into the platform or using one of our rubric templates.
The most robust solution to check for plagiarism
The most robust solution to check for plagiarism
Automatically screen timed written responses and uploaded documents in Kira against Turnitin’s industry-leading database then review cases of potential plagiarism.
85%admissions professionals agree that plagiarism in application components, like essays, personal statements, or resumes is a problem facing admissions teams today.
Applicant Pay
Do more with the budget you have.
Applicant Pay
Do more with the budget you have.
Make your admissions process more holistic and efficient with Kira Talent, all while working within your school’s budget constraints.
Applicant Pay allows you to reduce or eliminate the cost of Kira by passing on a nominal fee to applicants.
“Our experience with Kira was top notch. The team was friendly, courteous, communicative, accommodating and responsive to our changing needs.”
Maria White
Assistant Dean, Academic,
McMaster’s Faculty of Engineering.
Knowledge & Service
Meet your Client Success Team.
At Kira, we measure our success by your success using our product. As a client, you will have a dedicated Client Success Manager as your guide, expert, and internal advocate.
Knowledge & Service
Meet your Client Success Team.
At Kira, we measure our success by your success using our product. As a client, you will have a dedicated Client Success Manager as your guide, expert, and internal advocate.
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Onboarding and Training
We work with you to develop questions, competencies, rubrics, train your team, and build your Kira custom assessment.
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Service and Support
Need something? We’re your point of contact throughout your time using our product.
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Inspire Report
Improve your usage of Kira year-over-year with an annual report on usage data, applicant feedback, best practices, and tips.
Applicant-First Platform
Build an amazing admissions experience
Kira is elegant and easy to use for your applicants and your team.
Applicant-First Platform
Build an amazing admissions experience
Kira is elegant and easy to use for your applicants and your team.
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Branded Assessment Portal
Create a beautifully branded assessment portal for applicants that’s completely customized to your program.
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24/7 Applicant Support
Ensure applicants have a positive experience applying to your school with 24/7 technical support.
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Accessible Application
Give all applicants an equal opportunity to succeed in your admissions process with an accessible assessment. Our platform is fully WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.
"What Kira has been able to do for us is assess applicants for not only communication and language, but also their motivation, commitment and drive. It allows us to know the candidate deeper which helps us make an admission decision and feel more comfortable with that decision."
Eric Olson
Executive Director of Enrollment Operations
Wake Forest University Business School
