<p>I'm a rising college sophomore with a strong interest in creative writing. I've enjoyed critiquing student writing in a variety of contexts, and I've helped a lot of friends with college essays. Recently, I saw an ad for a website (essaymine.com) that allows college students to receive a commission for reviewing other students' essays. This is appealing to me, but I have a couple of concerns. </p>
<p>First of all, the website also offers a service where college students can post their own essays and be paid by high schoolers who want to look at them. I'm not interested in this because I think it has a huge potential for dishonesty. Obviously, it would be easy to just opt out of it, but it makes me worry about the website's overall credibility.</p>
<p>So, I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience with this website. Alternatively, have any college students had any luck getting paid to edit college essays elsewhere? I know I'm not exactly a CC regular, so thanks for your help!</p>
<p>You know, they'll give you all kinds of previews before you buy the rights to see other people's full essays, and that costs about $9 an essay. They aren't giving any kinds of previews of the sorts of reviews people have written, and they're charging $35 for reviewing a 500-word article. That's kind of a red flag.</p>
<p>The ability to critique other people's writing is different from the ability to write well yourself, and either way different people have different tastes in critiques, from "tell me what you liked" to "don't sugarcoat it." Would you have paid $35 two years ago to have someone you didn't know whose approach to critiquing and ability to offer insightful comments you couldn't really judge comment on your essay? I really don't think they're selling critiques.</p>
<p>I think they're selling essays you might get caught having plagiarized for $9 and custom-written essays (and other documents on up to theses) that the schools haven't seen before starting at $35. Most plagiarism websites don't come right out and say that that's what they're doing. If I were you, I would steer far, far away from this.</p>
<p>And opting out of sharing your own work isn't as easy as you think. Would you have paid $35 two years ago for a critique of your essay from someone whose approach to critiquing you couldn't judge, whose ability to offer an insightful critique you couldn't judge, and whose ability to write an essay you couldn't judge either?</p>
<p>If you want to get paid to help with college essays, I'd suggest that you go talk to someone who is in the business of helping students put together application packages and see whether there is any chance they would subcontract some work to you. Or start figuring out how to market your services as a writing tutor in general.</p>