With regard to professional help on essays: as someone pointed out, there is only so much they can do. Have you ever seen a memoir or autobiography of a totally unaccomplished person but written by a ghostwriter crack the NYTimes best sellers? No. Know why? Because it’s putting lipstick on a pig.
Do you think the fact that accomplished people employ ghostwriters for their memoirs/autobiographies make their life stories any less interesting or make them any less accomplished in their lives?