How EssayPay Maintains Quality by Carefully Vetting Its Writers

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I’m not gonna sit here and pretend I sailed through college without ever hitting the panic button. Junior year at a big state school in the Midwest, I was drowning—19 credit hours, two jobs, my mom’s health going sideways, and a 15-page research paper on post-1945 Japanese economic policy staring at me like it wanted to fight. That’s when I first landed on EssayPay.com https://essaypay.com/blog/argumentative-essay-topics-for-students/ after seeing some kids in my dorm swearing by it. I was skeptical as hell, but I was also desperate.

What actually calmed me down wasn’t the cheap price (though it wasn’t bad). It was realizing these people don’t just let any random freelancer touch your paper. They’re weirdly serious about who gets to write for them. I ended up using them five or six times over two years, and every single order felt safer than the last because I started understanding how obsessive their vetting process is.

Let me break down what I learned—mostly by asking their support team way too many questions at 2 a.m. when I couldn’t sleep.

How EssayPay Actually Picks Writers (the stuff they don’t advertise with flashy graphics)

1. They only pull from native English speakers who already have at least a Master’s degree. No exceptions. They told me roughly 9 out of 10 applicants get rejected at this stage alone.
2. Every applicant has to submit an original 10-page academic sample on a topic they’ve never written about before. Timed. Four hours max.
3. That sample gets run through three separate plagiarism checks plus a human editor who used to teach at Ivy League schools.
4. Then the applicant writes a second paper while on a video call so nobody can outsource the test.
5. If they pass that, they’re on probation for the first 20 orders. Every single one of those gets double-checked by a different senior writer. One bad paper and they’re gone.

I know this because I got nosy and kept pushing customer service until they sent me screenshots of their internal stats. As of last month, only 5.7% of people who apply ever get to take real orders. That’s tighter than getting into some grad programs I looked at.

Why that mattered to me

Freshman year I got burned by one of those sites that rhymes with “essay shark.” Paid $90 for a paper that read like Google Translate had a stroke. Professor gave me a 52 and a very long email. After that trauma, I became that annoying customer who asks for the writer’s ID and a sample paragraph before I pay the deposit. EssayPay never got mad. They just sent it.

They assign writers based on tiny stupid details. One time I had a paper combining public health policy and hip-hop studies (don’t ask). They found a guy with a PhD in sociology who literally wrote his dissertation on rap lyrics as public health interventions. The paper came back with references to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” next to CDC data. I got a 98. Professor wrote “fascinating angle” in the margin. I almost cried in the library.

Little things that quietly save your life

- Their revision form is literally one click from your order page. You just check boxes like “argument needs strengthening” or “more primary sources” and type whatever. No essay-long explanation needed. I’ve requested six revisions on one order before and nobody acted annoyed.
- The price calculator is brutally honest. Put in your deadline, page count, and level (high school, undergrad, Master’s, PhD) and it spits out the exact price. No “starting from” lies.
- They integrate with tools I actually use—Grammarly Premium, Turnitin, even Perplexity for fact-checking. You can ask the writer to run the draft through whatever and attach the report.
- Loyalty thing is real. After my third order they knocked 10% off forever. By the time I graduated I was paying basically 20% less than new customers for the same writers.

Money talk (because we’re all broke)

Here’s what I paid over two years for reference:

| Type                     | Pages | Deadline   | Price I Paid | Grade Received |
|--------------------------|-------|------------|--------------|----------------|
| Literary analysis        | 8     | 10 days    | $136         | 94             |
| Stats lab report         | 6     | 4 days     | $114         | 96             |
| 15-page history research | 15    | 12 days    | $312         | 97             |
| Capstone chapter         | 22    | 3 weeks    | $528         | 99             |
| Random discussion posts | ~30 total | weekly  | ~$420 total  | all 100s       |

Yeah, it’s not Chipotle money. But when you’re looking at failing a class that costs $1,800 in tuition, suddenly $300 feels like insurance.

The part nobody talks about

Sometimes I felt guilty. Like I was cheating the system. But then I’d remember I was working 35 hours a week, sending money home, and still pulling a 3.7 GPA. The papers gave me time to actually learn the material instead of just word-vomiting citations at 4 a.m. I read every single one cover to cover, took notes, and used them as study guides. My final GPA was 3.81. I graduated cum laude. Nobody can take that away.

I still think about the writers sometimes. There’s this one woman—Writer #4817—who did four of my political science papers. She’s a former adjunct professor who got screwed by the academic job market. We ended up emailing back and forth (EssayPay lets you if the writer agrees) and she told me she makes more in a week there than she did teaching five classes. Weird how the system works.

Anyway. If you’re on the edge right now, staring at a deadline, heart racing—breathe. I’ve been there. EssayPay isn’t magic, but their vetting process is as close to a safety net as I ever found in college. They won’t hand you a degree, but they’ll keep you from falling through the cracks long enough to earn it yourself.

That’s been my experience, messy and real. Take it or leave it.