<p>I wondered if we could start a little list of schools that hand out fee waived applications to visitors, or, conversely, those schools who refuse?</p>
<p>Rensselaer - NO</p>
<p>McDaniel - YES (if the visit occurs during an Open House; unsure of other visits though)...McDaniel permits online apps and compares the applicant name to the list of those who visited.</p>
<p>Drexel does</p>
<p>Elizabethtown - waived for attending open house (perhaps other visits, too, but don't know)
Univ. of Scranton - waived if you visit or apply online
Hartwick - waived if you visit
College Misericordia - waived if you visit</p>
<p>Allegheny does.</p>
<p>Rutgers does</p>
<p>All the Liberal Arts schools my son visited, plus Drexel, waived the application fee as long as you applied on-line. Two schools that he was accepted at, Allegheny and Roanoke, waived the fee before a visit. He was also offered free applications at quite a few other schools, including the University of Vermont, West Virginia University and Northern Arizona University. He had expressed an early interest in those schools but never followed up. If you don't mind getting lots of mail, asking for a viewbook and giving out an e-mail will most likely result in application fee waivers. He was still getting free application offers into January of his senior year.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown College also fee waives if you apply online.</p>
<p>Beloit and Lawrence waive for the open house, Hiram and Wooster for the visit. Knox and Augustana waive as priority applicant. Illinois Wesleyan has no fee application.
I believe small private LAC tend to have one or other deal on application fees.</p>
<p>If you have a scheduled visit with York they waive your application fee.</p>
<p>Swarthmore has a program called Discovery Weekend in October, where they pay for you for visit the campus. After I visited, they sent me a fee waiver.</p>
<p>schools that want to increase their applications. to me that is the short answer. usually you only had fee waivers when students could demonstrate financial hardship in paying the app fee...and this was back in the day when the fees were only in the $25-40 range.</p>
<p>irishbird,
I would have given the same answer a few years ago. When my oldest child was applying to colleges in 2002 we paid for all of her college applications. Last fall, when my son was applying we paid for three out of nine applications and we were offered many more. None of the colleges knew of our finances before offering the free applications (we did not need any fees waived but were happy to have the free offers) and our sons stats were not as good as his sister's.</p>
<p>Here's a helpful website for schools that offer free applications for a variety of reasons (as usual always double check with the college website):
<a href="http://www.porcelina.net/freeapps/%5B/url%5D">http://www.porcelina.net/freeapps/</a></p>
<p>There are no fees to apply to a US Service Academy</p>
<p>i heard brandeis sends a fee waiver after a visit</p>
<p>Brandeis waves the fee only if they offer you a Blue Ribbon Application. In that case, you'll get your decision early too ...non-binding.</p>