<p>St. John’s in NY, and Houston Baptist too.</p>
<p>Rice. I think it was related to the College Board’s Search Service (put in your interests, grades, etc. when applying to take the SAT).</p>
<p>Yes. I don’t see my kid’s email, but there are letters arriving in snail mail which offer to waive the application fee. Some offer to waive the essay. The letters’ texts are very similar to each other, which probably means the colleges are working with the same marketing company. These letters are usually from colleges at which the SAT scores are very high for their pools.</p>
<p>Hobart and William Smith-free to on-line applicants
St. Lawrence-free to students who have visited campus
Colby-free to all</p>
<p>Is Baylor’s app really free? Everywhere I look it says $50</p>
<p>My daughter got one from the University of Minnesota. They waived the $55 application fee for her. Several of her friends also got the “free” application Minnesota as well.</p>
<p>We only had to pay for one application. They stopped that program for higher performing state kids last year so she just got in under the old program. The one we had to pay for is the one she is attending so it worked out. We must of had about 100 offers of free applications from all over the country.</p>
<p>RPI and Case both sent free app letters earlier on. Today he got one from Rice even though he has shown them no interest whatsoever.</p>
<p>Baylor and University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Sent from my HTC One X using CC</p>
<p>U of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>Rice University</p>
<p>We got no free applications that S used & D only applied to two schools–both required app fees. 
We did receive some free apps but the kids weren’t interested in those Us & totally ignored them.</p>
<p>St. Mary’s College of California</p>
<p>DS received a free app in the mail from Clarkson University followed by a call from an admissions officer who was “in the area” and wanted to do an interview. DS declined. Didn’t tell me about it until I asked if he had consided Clarkson or even looked at the application. He said it’s too far, too cold and in the middle of no where. I responded with “how would you know that?You’ve never been there.” From my perspective it appeared to be strong interest on the part of Clarkson. From his perspective he knew all he needed to know. :/</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten free apps from DePaul or RIT? DD has expressed interest in both, visiting from great distances, but they are the only ones that haven’t waived the fee for her.</p>
<p>FYI: If you email the admissions department/counselor for your region at schools you have formally visited (registered tour etc.) and ask them for an Application Fee Waiver code, you will more than likely get one. We visited a number of schools and received app fee waiver codes from all via email.</p>
<p>@Mamaduck - do you know anyone who graduated from RIT? Alumni are allowed to request a fee waiver for someone (I think they can request 1 /yr). We got one this way.</p>
<p>Generally does it seem like fee waivers come more from private rather than state schools? Of the 7 schools my son is planning to apply to, 2 are private and we got fee waivers for them but not the other 5 public schools.</p>
<p>@Confused - unfortunately, the only RIT alumni we know of are rather indirect (such as the dentist’s brother or a friend’s father). Oh well.</p>
<p>University of Vermont</p>