Students applying to Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT and other highly selective colleges and universities can view admission essays written by successful applicants at The Essay Exchange.

Many students experience significant anxiety around one particular aspect of the college application process - the application essay. Much of this anxiety results from the fact that students are unsure what a quality, successful admissions essay looks like. This is where The Essay Exchange steps in. The Essay Exchange (www.EssayExchange.org), a socially responsible startup, enables high school students applying to college to read admissions essays that were successfully used by current students at Ivy League schools, Stanford and MIT to gain admission to those schools.

Applicants can go on to the site and pay as little as $2 to read admissions essays that were uploaded by current students at Ivy League schools, Stanford and MIT. The proceeds go to the authors of the essays and pay to keep the site up and running.

According to company CEO Rory O'Connor, "One of the goals of the site is to take the insights that admissions consultants provide - namely, what works in a college application essay - and make these insights available in an affordable, easy-to-access way. We want to give all applicants the opportunity to see what current students at Ivy League schools, Stanford and MIT wrote to get into those schools."

The company is also passionate about its social mission: to increase access to admissions insight for underprivileged applicants. One of the founders of The Essay Exchange, Paris Wallace, has a personal passion for how the issue of wealth impacts college admissions, "I grew up below the poverty line and am the first person in my family to graduate high school. I was fortunate to attend the very best schools in the country on scholarship. While at Amherst College and Harvard University, I realized the huge economic inequality present in the student bodies. Hearing stories from my fellow classmates about the thousands of dollars their parents spent on application consultants, I became passionate about the need to level the playing field when it comes to admissions. The Essay Exchange provides students like me a chance to attend a top university or college and transcend their economic situation."

At the same time, this service provides admissions offices the opportunity to prevent plagiarism. The company has proactively reached out to over 100 admissions offices across the country to form partnerships to detect and prevent unethical activity. The company is also working to ensure its essays are in Turnitin.com's database, the web's premier plagiarism prevention service.

Essay Exchange is popular with both applicants and college students. Just weeks after launching, The Essay Exchange had amassed a database containing hundreds of successful admissions essays. The site receives thousands of hits from around the country.