MyEssay.com

 

MyEssay.com appears to have been in business since 2008, but it only came to our attention several months ago when we received a complaint about this service that we found unique and very concerning, especially in the writing service industry. We began an investigation of the company, so that we could provide an accurate and objective MyEssay review. What follows is a summary of that investigation and our ultimate MyEssay.com rating.

Quality of the Services Offered

My Essay is focused solely on admissions essays for college applications, personal statement essays for admission to graduate programs, and required essays for students applying for professional programs, also at the graduate level. Specific professional school categories include MBA, Law, and Medicine.

It is important to note that this company confines its services to reviewing essays that students have already written. In the course of those reviews, it does not re-write or edit these student-submitted essays. Instead it provides more general comments with suggestions for student re-writing. Some mechanical errors are identified specifically.

Because there were no My Essay testimonials on the site, we were unable to include them in our evaluation. We did find a number of My Essay student reviews on social media and on other review sites, all of which were highly negative.

We submitted an essay for review, posing as a college student preparing application documents for admission to graduate school. We located the essay prompt on an actual college website, prepared an essay, and submitted it along with our payment of $59.95. The submission process itself was arduous, and that will be addressed later. We deliberately wrote a poor essay, in order to discern what suggestions would be made upon its return. The review was quite disappointing. Obvious structural errors and the lack of a thesis were not mentioned; only a few of the mechanical/grammar errors were identified. Overall, it was a waste of money.

There is one full review published on the website, and this was detailed and appropriately completed. However, the review we received was not even a reasonable facsimile of what the site obviously would have student believe they will be getting. The derogatory MyEssay reviews that we had read elsewhere were substantiated by our experience.

There are no customer support agents and no way to communicate with the company. Further, the FAQ link contained questions and answers that did not relate to the company’s services whatsoever.

We were unable to find any evidence of a MyEssay.com BBB membership, although there were complaints on file there.

Prices and Discounts

MyEssay prices consist of a single fee for the review of any type of admissions essay. There are thus no MyEssay.com discounts for any of its customers.

In terms of a My Essay coupon code, they, too, are non-existent. There were links on the site to third-party writing service sites, and there we were able to find pricing, discounts and promo codes. However, there were no such My Essay promo codes on the company’s own site.

Additional Freebies and Benefits

Here is where we found the most troublesome activity. It appears that this site exists solely as a place for paid advertising for third-party sites, some of which relate to writing, but most of which are fully unrelated.

There are offer for free coupons from a variety of companies; however, by clicking the ink to those coupons, a visitor must sign up for a number of other offers and agree to accept emails from a variety of sources.

During the submission process, we had to link to a free essay template download. This took us, again, to a variety of other offers which we had to go through and decline in order to get to the actual submission of our essay for review.

Other advertisement on the site included a free trial of Grammarly, a legitimate editing site, and other such unrelated things as fee-based public records checks.

Do We Recommend it?

In sum, we can say that there are no benefits to the use of this site. As one student review put it, “this service is a complete scam, I wasted my money, and all I got was my inbox now filled with offers from the links I had to go through just to get my essay uploaded.”

As to whether My Essay is safe? We would have to say no.

Student should avoid this website. We would not recommend its use to anyone.