<p>I want your general opinion on something- I was talking with my roommate (Junior in college) about application essays, and we were discussing whether it was acceptable to pay for a tutoring service to help you get your essays written. </p>
<p>I admit that I had help with that when I was a senior in high school, but the people I worked with made me write my own essay. I have encountered a LOT of people here in college who had help with it almost to the extent that someone else wrote it for them. I think help is ok, because the process is so competitive, but I wondered what you all who are currently applying think?</p>
<p>Lottie… questioning whether something else might be occurring is not advice. </p>
<p>Maybe there are laws that ensure that even the UC applicants whose stats don’t meet the magic 3.0 benchmark must ALL have their essays read. If so, I’d like to see them. </p>
<p>FYI… The above isn’t advice either.</p>
<p>If this was true, then people with high GPA and SAT and decent EC’s would not get rejected</p>
<p>Not necessarily.</p>
<p>*From talking about it with a friend’s older sibling who works for the UC system, it’s the sort of thing where the combined GPA/SAT score automatically earns you consideration (NOT the same thing as admission), and then once you qualify as a potential applicant, they sort down that pool of applicants by reading through their essays. *</p>
<p>Maybe, unless there is a law that states that even the ones who don’t meet the minimum GPA (or maybe the minimum req’d courses) still must have their essays read.</p>
<p>(oh, and this isn’t advice, either.)</p>