Legality of those Essay Writing "services"

College Essays
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<p>so there are a bunch of websites that you can pay to write your college application essay(s) for you... and I have no interest in using one of these websites because I have integrity, but I had some questions out of curiosity:</p>

<p>1) Are they legitimate? Do they actually write quality essays?
2) Are they even legal?
3) If they are legitimate and legal, why aren't they getting more press? I mean, wouldn't a lot of desperate teens be willing to shell out the money to help them get into the college of their choice? </p>

<p>Here are some examples of what I am talking about:</p>

<p>My</a> Admission Edge
Custom</a> essays writing service
customessaywriting.com/</p>

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<p>services that will actually write the essay for you are illegal, however it is perfectly fine to ask others to read/edit/proofread your essays for you</p>

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<p>I highly doubt they can write quality essays because college essays are highly personal and online websites probably won't produce the same results even if they are legit.</p>

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I’m not condoning this practice, but how are complete strangers in a college admissions committee supposed to know that the personal stuff written for you isn’t true?

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They probably have a couple good essays for each topic and send the same ones to all their customers.

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Unless there’s a copyright violation, there’s nothing illegal.

But I think you’re conflating “illegal” with “unethical”

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If you represent an essay written by someone else as you wrote personally, it is misrepresentation. If you conspired it with the real author, it is conspiracy.

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Please use old threads only for research.