<p>Hey everybody,</p>
<p>I working on my applications, and many schools have sent me fee waivers. This week I received a packet from U of Evansville, which stated the application fee was waived for persons ranked 1st or 2nd in their class. Does anybody know of any top schools where application fee is waived for top students?</p>
<p>P.S. I don't like to brag, but I AM a top student. Nuff said.</p>
<p>Whats a “U of Evansville”?</p>
<p>LOL. Get over yourself. The only schools that waive application fees for “top students” like yourself are school such as the one you mentioned, that no one has heard of. Believe it or not, being a “top student” does not entitle you to free applications, or even admission.</p>
<p>Drop the arrogance before you actually GO to college.</p>
<p>U of Evansville</p>
<p>What? Never even heard of it</p>
<p>Thank you for telling us that you are the vale/salu in your class. Didn’t need that all cap “AM” and Nuff said to make your point.</p>
<p>I agree with the other posters. I don’t think that you will find a top school that does that. (At least to my knowledge)</p>
<p>
On the contrary, several do. No need to be snippy with the OP or give him misleading information.</p>
<p>Rice and Furman waive the application fee for NMSF applicants, for example. Brandeis, Tulane, and others have been known to waive application fees.</p>
<p>Incidentally, Evansville is a decent school, particularly for art/archaeology.</p>
<p>I second “IBclass06”. This past month, my DD has been received a number of emails from colleges waiving not only the application fee, but also essay and/or teacher recommendations. Rice waived the application fee for her based on her AP award. So there is still a good chance for OP to have some hope from the top schools to waive him/her the application fee.</p>
<p>When my son was named a NMSF, he got many free application offers from good schools…Baylor, Rice, SLU, Fordham, Tulane, etc. </p>
<p>Maybe the top 30 don’t do this, but I wouldn’t say only obscure schools do.</p>
<p>Tulane
St. Johns
University of Pittsburgh
University of Portland
University of Evansville
Willamette University</p>
<p>These are the “free application” offers my son has had so far.</p>
<p>He really isn’t interested in any of the above</p>
<p>Such waivers are not usually based on class rank, but on PSAT scores. I remember getting application fee waivers and special priority applications from schools based on the PSAT. The ones I remember are:</p>
<p>Brandeis
Drexel
Tulane
RPI
Siena
VCU
Ursinus
there were probably more, I just don’t remember.</p>
<p>Haha, I’m barely in the top 15% of my class and got fee waivers from:
Tulane
Fordham
Bryant
Catholic U
Siena
Drexel
RPI
and a bunch of others</p>
<p>You’re not special, so enough with the holier than thou attitude.</p>
<p>We’ve gotten them from Tulane, Drexel, and Colo School of Mines.</p>
<p>FYI - DS isn’t even in the top 10%,</p>
<p>I don’t think it has anything to do with class rank, because colleges don’t know your rank. However, colleges are given lists that include kids names who scored higher than certain thresholds on SAT tests (and probably ACT tests). They aren’t told actual scores, but they’re told which kids scored higher than - say - 2000 on the SAT.</p>
<p>We were told that “priority” applications could be sent to students based on zip codes, not just test scores…</p>
<p>mom2collegekids - I think that is true because at least one of the letters DS got said that he was receiving this “offer” (no fee, no essay, 21 day admissions decision) based on information received from the College Board.</p>
<p>CollegeBoard = SAT scores.</p>
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<p>I didn’t put that because I figured everyone on this board knew that… :)</p>
<p>Many schools offer fee waivers, based upon standardized scores, location, athletic status;in addition there are various free on-line application fee waiver offers…Colgate offered free on-line applications for the 2009 year…</p>
<p>I’ve gotten numerous fee-waivers and Priority Apps from colleges, and my scores were eh (1830). Unfortunately, none of these schools are interesting to me. =/</p>
<p>Generally, some schools choose to waive fees to attract the applicants they’d like to attend their school. It’s basically the same concept as being able to get a better merit FA package at a school you might not otherwise consider. While it’s often lower-ranked schools which do this, there are some well-regarded colleges which also have this policy.</p>
<p>BTW, just because someone hasn’t heard of a school, or looks at its ranking and decides it isn’t very good, doesn’t mean it’s not a good school for you (or even a good school for the prestige snobs, if they’d open their eyes). Evansville is a great example of that - DS and I were VERY impressed when we visited in February, and he almost decided to attend. Lots of places like that - keep an open mind when narrowing down your list.</p>