<p>Are your acceptance percentages increased at all when colleges want you so much that they send a thing to your house saying that they waive your application fee?</p>
<p>I got a fee waiver from Rice and Georgetown (which I would consider both as slight reaches), does that mean they REALLY want me? Or do they pass these fee waivers out like candy?</p>
<p>Yes, I wwas really wondering the same thing. I got the one from Rice, but not Georgetown…</p>
<p>like candy</p>
<p>If you are offered a free application by a college/university that you wanted to apply to anyway, file the free app. and save the money. But don’t expect it to mean that they like you more than someone else.</p>
<p>I actually think that if you receive an application fee waiver offer from a college, it means that you are very desirable based on whatever factor it is that they know about you (in many cases it’s merely the PSAT score), or else the school wouldn’t waste the money to lure you to apply and then have to be paying someone to be reading over your application. </p>
<p>However, at more selective colleges a fee waiver offer may not necessarily be a good indicator of your chance of acceptance, since so many factors are taken into account during the admissions process (your rank, essay, ECs, etc) and the college is only speculating that you may be a good candidate for the school based on possibly very little information.</p>
<p>(anyway, this thread is two years old! I wish Rice still gives out app fee waivers.)</p>
<p>^haha, yes it’s old but has some very good info.</p>
<p>“But don’t expect it to mean that they like you more than someone else.”
I disagree. If they did not like you more, what would be the reason for sending out a waiver? I would say that based on the basic information you provided, they like you. And even if not more than others, this is definitely an indication that they do not dislike you, which is already something to be glad about.</p>
<p>My son just received a fee waiver letter from Rice. They said it was based on his AP test score results. I wonder if anyone has gotten a fee waiver from Rice even though they did NOT visit the school? (My son visited in July and is planning to apply there.)</p>