Pricing of undergraduate essays, graduate essays, admissions essays

Hello Writers,

What's the best way of pricing the following:

- undergraduate essays,
- graduate essays,
- admissions essays

If I assume undergraduate essays are the cheapest ones (100%) - how much more should I charge for graduate essays and admissions essays? Does it sound right:

- undergraduate essays -- 100% (for example: $10 per page);
- graduate essays -- 120% ($12 per page),
- admissions essays - 140% ($14 per page)?

Do you price them differently? Thanks.

In addition to assignment type, some writers consider project deadline as an important factor in pricing strategy.

Relative difficulty (for me) and due date are my primary pricing factors. As a freelancer, I also do take into account how easy or difficult clients are. Those who communicate clearly and don't waste my time with many emails to say (or ask) what they could in only a few emails tend to get slightly better prices. My favorite clients are the ones who simply send me everything I need to quote a price in a single email and don't make me open files to read something they could have just pasted easily into the body of an email. My least favorite clients are those who always email first just to ask whether I'm "available," and then send me a topic without due dates so I have to email back and forth for that basic information, and who start off our relationship asking for a price break (before I've even quoted a price), promising me that they'll have more work for me if I give them a good price. In general, the easier they make it for me to help them, the better price I can give them because they don't waste my time emailing unnecessarily.

I agree, they waste everybody's times!

I tend to charge the most for admissions essays. These are usually only 1-2 pages long and it takes a lot of effort to make them perfect :).

Academic Freelance Writing Pricing - Four Levels

In relation to pricing for example academic freelance research / custom writing, there are four levels:

I. $40+ - $30 per page* - those writers are certain to live in a 1st-world English-speaking country and have been educated in a quality, Western academic institution. I think all of the recommended freelance writers / writing services advertising here meet these criteria.

II. $29 - $20 per page - those are likely located in an English-speaking country (or in a lawful country at least) and have been educated in an adequate academic institution.

III. $19 - $10 per page - those are almost sure to be ESL writers from a non-English speaking country who may be qualified enough for a high-school-level writing order (anything at a college or university level, considering their non-Western style education and lack of everyday English language usage, is very risky).

IV. $9 - $0 per page ("FREE") - those are the bottom of the barrel quality and security-wise. Most orders (if ever delivered) are either plagiarized and ridden with errors or auto-paraphrased from pre-written papers. 100% of them are less than mediocre foreign writers from 3rd-world, non-English speaking countries (at the same time, 95% of them claim to live in one of the Western countries like the US, UK, Canada, or Australia).

Of course, there may be some exceptions to the above levels (depending on writing volume or other business deals), but they are not very common.

I've noticed more and more unqualified, ESL 'writers,' especially the ones from Kenya, Pakistan, India, and Ukraine, have been moving from the 2nd or 3rd level to the 4th level in the hopes of attracting (and scamming) new customers. To new customers, it may seem like a good deal to 'find' a 'writer' who can work at $5-$15 per page, but - as I mentioned above - they get what they pay for. Approximately half of the 4th-level 'writers' are believed to engage in suspicious, sometimes criminal activities, including banking information theft, personal identity theft, extortion, or blackmailing. To them, 'essay writing' is yet another niche to operate in.

Your thoughts? Have any of the freelance writers here who work for themselves considered decreasing / increasing their prices (if they did, was it worth it / if they did not, why not? :)

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*Page = 300 words
*Prices in US dollars

Legitimate academic writing services: add 10-20% to the prices above (it buys additional protections and overall service reliability in comparison to individual freelance writers).

That's about right

I'd consider Level III to be just as risky for high school students, because high school teachers tend to be more familiar with their students' writing than most college professors. They're even more likely to notice awkward ESL phrasing and idiomatic mistakes in work submitted by NES students than most college professors.

These prices may have been true up until January this year. The minute Covid-19 shut down the schools, the charging system changed. The ability of the students to pay premium prices became hindered by their stay at home educational status. Writers worldwide, regardless of their English writing skills, have found themselves needing to adjust downward (by a bit) to ensure that they can get the order as placed by the client. It is difficult to get a client to sign up these days. There are a lot of inquiries, but these rarely translate into actual orders most of the time. At least, that is what I have experienced lately, which forced me to spin my writers off into another field of writing. One that pays more and isn't affected by the blended learning situation.

Essay writing companies seem to have kept these prices as the reflected prices on their websites. What they do is, they adjust the costs downward using coupons and special offers. This is something that they do in the hopes of attracting the clients that come to their site to sign up for the services. There is no sure way of pricing essays these days. There are both professional and personal considerations to factor into the pricing per page already. So I would have to agree that these essays are priced on a case to case basis, depending upon the length of time that a client has been working with the writer.

My prices never change based on how long clients have been using me, simply because it's precisely my long-term clients who know much better than anybody else exactly how my work compares to all of the available alternatives.