The first thing that grazes everyone’s minds during the college admissions process is usually this:

“When should I hire someone to write my college essay?”

That, as many dear readers would have guessed, depends on the situation. Said situation, however, may be a little bit more complicated than most people think. In this article, we’ll be discussing how to know when you should hire someone to write your college essay.

Note: We understand that there are multiple college essay editors in the market. You are not obligated to hire only our services. We do recommend, however, that you understand exactly whether you should hire someone to write your college essay and whether said editors are trustworthy.  

To The Best Of Your Ability

The best time to hire someone to help with the college essay is right after the applicant and parent have done everything they could to the best of their ability.

This means you should hire an editor when you and your parents have fulfilled your respective roles as much as you can. So wait, what are these roles?

The applicant’s role is simple enough: the applicant must make sure that they have all possible information ready to write in their essays so as to have as many rough drafts as possible. This makes it easy for college essay editors to thoroughly make the best of what materials the applicant provides.

The role of the parent is much smaller than the applicant’s, though still an important one. It is to keep their child on their toes when writing their college essays; it is to remind students that their college admissions essay is not just like any other assignment, but arguably one of the most important aspects of the admissions process. You can learn more about why this is the case here.

That is all.

The parent’s responsibilities do NOT include making large revisions over their child’s admissions essays. It does NOT include making broad judgments to determine what to write and what not to write. There is no doubt that many parents who wish the best for their children also happen to have more experience, but that does NOT meant that they are more well-equipped to make changes in the essay than the applicant themselves.

In fact, we’ve had the parents of multiple clients, all of whom were arguably very intelligent and successful in their own right, who had made revisions to their child’s essays, only to make it worse.  

Getting Help Before It’s Too Late.

As a general rule, you will need to hire a consultant or an editor when you or your child’s college application essay is not yet complete 5 weeks prior to the application deadline.

Do not ignore the length of the deadline. If you hire someone to write your college essay, make sure he has enough time to provide a thorough background check and analysis –and doesn’t just outsource his labor from people with fake diplomas– before he works on the essay.

For instance, our college essay editing process requires at least two weeks of thorough editing and drafting before we come up with a final product. To add on to the time constraint, our services provides free thorough background checks and analyses to make the best personalized college essays, but even those may take three days.

It’s a story as old as time: parents and family do not hire services until the last minute; it ends up becoming too stressful for students, and this makes them turn the application essays in to simply get it over with without vital revisions. Make sure to get help from a college consultant or a professional editor prior to the rush week.  

This is actually one of the main reasons you hear horror stories of very smart students getting rejected from schools they were completely qualified for: they couldn’t optimize their essays enough due to a lack of time.

There’s also the case of finding the right college essay editor for you and your child. The general gist is to make sure that you have an editor who will help you with the actual meat of the essay editing to streamline the process; you don’t want to hire editors who simply do the bare minimum. There is also the case of fake Ivy League graduate editors, but other details like those can be found in our sister articles on hiring “good college consultants” and “bad ones”.

Shop Around To See What PROCESS Works Best For You

It sounds like a cliché to say that everyone is different, but it’s not far from the truth. Parents and applicants are looking for different things when shopping for an expert editor to handle their application. Some prefer to have their editors check in with the applicant and parents every week; others prefer not to get phone calls every week reminding them of the editing progress.

For instance, this is our model of college admissions essay editing:

We work to make an in-depth analysis and background check of the applicant’s general academic and social life. We then use this information to conduct a deep essay drafting that makes multiple possible final drafts for the applicant to submit depending on the diversification of his application. Then, we contact the applicant every day to update them on the progress of their edited works. We also use previous successful essay aspects from our archive of accepted college admissions essays to Frankenstein together the best possible essay that the applicant can submit under their circumstances. More details about our process can be found in the services page.

Again, we are not saying that our services are the only way to go. Our services certainly are not the most convenient for those who simply want to get the admissions essay done and over with quickly.

We can say, however, that the best decision is to have a service that can provide the most thorough and well-fleshed editing process. Typically, the more complicated moving parts the admissions editor will take on for you, the better your chances are at beating out the rest of the competition. You can usually find this information in the respective site’s “services” page.

Need a hand at handling all the moving parts to make your admissions essay stand out among the rest of the crowd? That’s exactly what we do. Give us a call or contact us for more info and for a free background analysis.