FREE peer essay review has been upgraded and replaced with Pay for Essay Review

Getting editing help (paid or free) on an essay does not detract from the true reflection of a student's writing. For most high school essays, I get editing help from my friends, sisters, and parents. In college, most of the essays you would write you could get editing help on (and I would even suggest it). Also, I think essays written during high school would be the LEAST likely to be written by the student (because they would care about the consequences of plagiarism less on those assignments). In addition, colleges want to know specific things about students, not about students' ability to write a history paper or within a set amount of time for the SAT.

Some colleges like Princeton actually require you to upload a graded paper as part of their application process. And now Harvard has added this year this one sentence that supports what Princeton is saying. "Frequent practice in the writing of expository prose".

Therefore the best thing you can do is improve your essays as a high school student is to take the most challenging English classes always. Writing well is an invaluable skill that will serve you well for the rest of your life.

Keep in mind that application readers at all the best colleges have their "BS radar" on all the time. So if an applicant's sample paper, personal essay, short essays, and short answers look like they were written by 2 or more different hands, their application is chucked in the waste bin. Some of these admissions officers have read 10 to 50 thousand essays over their careers so they can tell immediately if something smells suspicious or not.

The other thing I would heavily disagree with is that a "paid" essay is not necessarily a better essay. People who charge $100 to $1000 for a professional essay do it for 2 reasons only. 1.) to get paid, 2.) to make the customer happy. They actually have no effing clue what the admissions officer at William is looking for in their Class of 2026. They are only writing what the client tells them to do. They take no responsibility for the outcome if it's a bomb but gain all the future accolades if the client thinks their essay was instrumental in their success. This means it's actually very risky to hire one of these people.

If you apply to Brown with a paid essay and then submit a 2-minute video of yourself advocating for a place in the class and it turns out that your vocabulary and sentence structure and personal expression don't match what you wrote in your essay, you actually just eff'd yourself.

There will always be people l who cheat and take shortcuts in life. I wouldn't worry about them nor the people who actually defend them. They are the really sad people in society.

Thanks very much, Tim for the explanation, and glad for some CV members there is still the Peer Option.

Nevertheless from the Top Menu "Essay Review" option, if you click on that, one only gets the Pay per Option Landing page which doesn't have a link to the Peer Review.

https://www.collegevine.com/essays/review/expert/landing

I personally don't have any issue with this new feature. My intent for discussion is that the menu is indeed buggy and there hasn't been a good announcement with regards to this upgrade feature. I see the free option exists but not easily accessible.