<p>When you get into a top college, are you going to hire a writing consultant to write your papers for you? A biologist to take your biology final for you?</p>
<p>I actually wasn’t aware that professional services like this are even available, and to be honest, it’s a bit disillusioning to me to me that they are. Social mobility is certainly diminished when poor kids have to compete against professional college applicants for admission to selective colleges. And I have trouble believing that you will be able to take care of yourself next year if you weren’t capable of filling in your social security number and date of birth on the Common Application by yourself.</p>
<p>OP, I’m not saying you did anything inherently wrong - you just took advantage of a service that was available to you - but the very existence of that service seems anything but fair, to me at least.</p>