<p>Offering free applications ... </p>
<p>Are they worth completing? Or should I just stick with the Common App?</p>
<p>for all the emails i’ve recieved they’ll waive your application fee even if you use the common app</p>
<p>Would you actually consider going to any of these places?</p>
<p>Also note that these are not offers of admission. The schools don’t know enough about you to admit you. Plenty of people who do apply this way get rejected.</p>
<p>And very selective places like to reject a lot of applicants since it makes them look more selective. A friend’s daughter actually got an application from Harvard. She had no interest in Harvard, never had investigated Harvard, and had been admitted to her first-choice small school on the West Coast.</p>
<p>If they are rolling, you should apply to one. For my daughter, she received free application from Pitts, only costs us $5 for transcript, so she said why not. She was going to apply to another rolling admission but it costs $50. There is very small chance she will go to Pitts or the other school but if she does, she might get merit aid. The advantage is she will know she is going to college in Dec.</p>
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<p>Really? How do I get them to waive the fee from the Common App? I can’t figure out. I click on the link in the e-mails but I always get directed to the home page of the Common App.</p>
<p>Most of the LACs wave application fee even if you use Common App. Going by memory, Colgate, Wellesley, St Olaf, etc… There is a long list of LACs that wave application fee.</p>
<p>only fordham was specific about it
“Just click this link and select the “other” fee waiver option under the payment section of the Common Application website.”</p>
<p>none of the other emails i received were very specific about how it worked but i’d assume it works the same way</p>
<p>Some can be rather ambiguous. For example, Tulane’s email suggests that you may use the Common App too, but does not indicate whether the fee is still waived.</p>
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<p>I am actually applying to Fordham, but I alreadly started their Common App. Do you think using the Candidate’s Choice app would boost my chances (marginally), or should I just be happy about the fee waiver?</p>
<p>Which schools have given you free apps, IceQube?</p>