Email from college saying they will waive application fee

[Anonymous]

Anyone get these emails from colleges?

DC has gotten from private and OOS public colleges.
Do they send these to everyone or do they target certain students for this?
DC has not applied anywhere yet but some colleges have sent this email saying they would waive the application fee.
DC did not ask for such the fee to be waived.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had two kids back to back w exact same 1540 SAT scores who got really different waivers.

Some of it is clearly recruitment. Like one kid who did an info session w Lafayette gets emails all the time w waivers. They want a kid who has great stats. Where as Duke gives nothing. Bcs my kids are a dime a dozen in that pool.

Then a lot of random. They must buy a list.

[Anonymous]

Yes my DC gets these along with direct admission offers. I think it may have to do with if they selected these options on College Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes my DC gets these along with direct admission offers. I think it may have to do with if they selected these options on College Board.

what's this?

[Anonymous]

DD got one last year. As far as I can tell, not everyone received one. It was for a school she was already planning to apply and she was accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD got one last year. As far as I can tell, not everyone received one. It was for a school she was already planning to apply and she was accepted.

Adding to say it came after a campus visit.

[Anonymous]

I think we received something like this AFTER DS had applied and paid the fee. I ignored all that noise. It doesn't affect where my kids apply and it has no bearing on whether they really want students or not.

[Anonymous]

DD got 2 - from OOS places she has not visited.

[Anonymous]

It is not based on the student's likelihood of admission. They may or may not involve demographics; like any spam, it just depends.

If the school emailed a fee waiver to your kid, and they were going to apply anyway, go ahead and use it.

[Anonymous]

Fee waivers are totally normal. I got a few myself as an applicant in the late 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fee waivers are totally normal. I got a few myself as an applicant in the late 90s.

+1 I’m guessing a lot of people here didn’t grow up in the US or didn’t make it only many mailing lists themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not based on the student's likelihood of admission. They may or may not involve demographics; like any spam, it just depends.

If the school emailed a fee waiver to your kid, and they were going to apply anyway, go ahead and use it.

This

I know we got them from most of the schools we visited. To be honest, we only wound up paying one application fee out of 8. That said, quite a few of the schools on my daughter’s list didn’t have them to begin with.

[Anonymous]

My SN child got waivers from many schools last year.

[Anonymous]

It’s a marketing tactic to generate interest and increase applications.

[Anonymous]

Yes, last year from Northeastern and several others.