<p>There are schools known to send out free applications, like Babson College, and sometimes to students likely to be admitted. Who among you received free applications for your kids? If so, where?</p>
<p>We received a few, mainly right around this time. The app for Tulane was free too, though I am not sure how that happened. In our state we also have a week when many apps are either free or essays are waived, etc.</p>
<p>the school I wound up attending handed out an application waiver with the information given out at the campus tour.</p>
<p>We have twins applying to schools this year, out of the 20 applications at 17 different schools we only had to pay for 2 applications fees. Most were just free for online applications but a couple of them gave us a voucher for free applications for visiting. We have gotten approximately 871 emails in the past month for being “golden” or “platinum” or whatever “candidates” and along with those the application fees were waived.</p>
<p>Lots. Mostly midwest LACs. Usually it was for using the online app and they called it “VIP” or something similar a lot of the time. Sometimes the fee was only waived if he applied before X date. </p>
<p>Since these types of schools were S’ target, we only paid a couple of app fees out of the 9 schools he applied to.</p>
<p>I think the only apps we paid for were State U’s. Most colleges were free if you visited or expressed interest.</p>
<p>Tulane’s app is always free.</p>
<p>My kids didn’t pay any application fees. The schools they applied to waived the fee either for visiting or applying online. They also received offers from other colleges in their emails for priority applications that were free, but they didn’t choose to apply to many of those.</p>
<p>RPI was free to Rensselaer medalists, and probably just about anyone else who showed interest in the school. My son wound up going there, and so far it seems like a great fit.</p>
<p>If you are not familiar with the Common Application, you might want to check it out. The site actually lists the schools that offer no charge applications. Here is the link, I hope it helps. ~APOL-a Mum</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/MemberRequirements.aspx</a></p>
<p>I would say most of our applications have been free, but most of these are private colleges that my kids have visited. Some are waiving fees just because we’ve requested info.</p>
<p>My D had lots of “priority application” offers that waive the fee. The ones I remember are Southern Methodist and Mary Hardin Baylor.</p>
<p>Case sent a postcard to waive app fee. Perhaps RPI and CO School of Mines too.</p>
<p>University of South Carolina used to waive the app. fee if SAT was at least 1300.
That was years ago. Don’t know if it still works that way.</p>
<p>Most of the offers for waived application fees came to S’s email address, so I had to make sure he was monitoring it. Of the schools he was interested in, I recall he received waived app fees to Macalester and Brandeis.</p>
<p>One was free for applying online. The Univ of Chicago actually refunded my son’s application fee as he was the first student to ever apply there from his HS. That favorable moment lasted for about a month when he got another letter from them saying they put him on their waitlist.</p>
<p>Of the schools that she was considering, my D received free applications to Brandeis and Fordham.</p>
<p>Most of the fee waiver offers were from non-selective private colleges that were not close by.</p>
<p>If you do well on the PSAT, Rice is known to have waived application fee of students who put them on the PSAT list of 2 notification schools.</p>
<p>We have. My son had Baylor and a couple others say free. Oh…Cornell College.</p>