i disagree. i definitely understand the reasoning behind hiring a professional writer in order to get your foot in the door of the college you really want to attend. of course you will have to write your own after this, but this one is significantly more important than all of the others.
That's completely backwards tho. If the most important essay you'll write in college is the one to simply get in, it's not even worth the time to go. You'd be better off staying at home than trying to kiss ass just to have the privilege to learn on your own, but with a guy getting paid to tell you what to learn and how to learn it. When I pay for a meal, I don't expect the person to invite me into the kitchen and lecture me on how to make it. I just want the meal. You can't do that with education; you only learn through the activity of learning. It is therefor a fabrication to say that thousands upon thousands of dollars later and an official degree is worth more than the time you actually spent learning how to do what it is you wanted to do, in which case, if you wanted to go to college, you should just go to any ol' college and get the same education (with the only difference being the environment, e.g., white schools vs lesser mixed/impoverished/government-grant schools), where an entrance essay isn't necessary and you'd save a shit ton of money on having to pay a guy 50$ for a half-assed entrance exam and a shit ton more on student loans (and I say student loans because someone who has scholarships can probably write their own entrance exams, ergo, they're perfectly content with the place they're trying to get into in the first place.)
Not to mention, we're on the Internet, where information is freely transmitted and can be copied an infinite amount of times, and yet we still find it necessary to pay an institution several thousands to teach us what we would largely learn on our own to begin with, all for a piece of paper that reaffirms that we're this or that because we couldn't figure out if we were or weren't without it, so it seems. How long until we look back at this outdated method of knowledge sharing and laugh at just how much cash was thrown at degrees?