<p>case western for S12 if he applied by certain date. RPI because he was an RPI medalist.</p>
<p>My son is now a junior in college but I think just about all of the privates and a couple of publics (Pitt and UVM) offered free apps. Some required visiting, you can always google using the keywords âcollege name, free applicationâ,</p>
<p>There is no app fee for Reed.</p>
<p>My son got free apps at Rice, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Richmond, and Macalester. He also got no essay options at Minnesota and Pittsburgh. He didnât apply to Richmond or Macalester in the end.</p>
<p>Brandeis waived fee app for my D, unsolicited. Donât know why. We would have paid it. Their loss.</p>
<p>Rice waived based on AP scores.</p>
<p>Maine waived my application fee for applying EA (not sure if all EA applicants got this or jusf some though). </p>
<p>I also got fee waivers (that I didnât use) for Baylor, Jacksonville University, Minnesota, George Mason, Thomas College, Morningside College, Benedictine College, Rockhurst, Case Western Reserve, Oklahoma Baptist, and a few others that I canât remember at the moment.</p>
<p>My daughter got a bunch but only used 2. Here is a good list of schools that waive the application fee for various reasons. [Free</a> College Applications](<a href=âhttp://www.porcelina.net/freeapps/listings.html]Freeâ>Free College Applications)</p>
<p>The list appears to have been last updated 2010.</p>
<p>My S got a fee waiver from Roger Williams in RI because we attended an Open House. Also got a fee waiver for RIT because alumni can obtain a fee waiver for a prospective student.</p>
<p>Gosh, my dd got lots of them⊠some from schools she ruled out for whatever reason, but hereâs a partial list in no particular order (applied to some but not all): Alabama, Temple, Fordham, Fairfield, Johnson & Wales, High Point, Iona, Stevenson. Older dd (HS class of 2010) got a couple but this time around there are many more.</p>
<p>Child 1: Unrequested extension from Dartmouth
Child 2: Unrequested fee waiver and extension from Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Kids didnât want to apply to either yet I thought it was interesting that schools of this caliber were granting waivers/extensions.</p>
<p>Dartmouth waived for daughter because she participated in a fly in program.
Cornell sent her a waiver but she never used it.</p>
<p>unsolicited, by email: High Point, Ohio University, Wittenberg, University of Colorado, UT Knoxville</p>
<p>University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA was one of several that made this offer to my S.</p>
<p>I got one from Fordham and wound up applying there.</p>
<p>University of Chicago. I believe the reason stated was geography.</p>
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<p>Typically these two schools do this to boost URM applications.</p>
<p>Just got one from American U.</p>
<p>A whole lot of them. Some we found when we went through soliciting mail and could have been missed. Pitt offered a waiver on the tour if you applied on the spot after the tour, which my son did. The catholic schools, Duquesne, Fairfield, Fordham, Iona, all did. Maybe Holy Crossâdonât rmember, There was something from the Jesuit schools and a whole slew of them that I just donât remember. Ursinus is anotehr that I remember.</p>
<p>We did not pay many application fees. We did for all of our instate schools I think we paid for Villanova and it was a hefty fee, the most of all. </p>
<p>With my older kids, there were a lot of offers of no fee if one applied on line, but now itâs pretty much considered the way itâs done.</p>
<p>Both my son and daughter received more offers to waive fees than imaginable. Based on my observation of the situation, a lot of it had to do with the fact that both checked that box on the ACT that allowed the company to notify colleges of my childrenâs interest in their universities/colleges. Then the colleges target a certain kid with a statistical profile (e.g., high SAT/ACT scores, kid of color, females interested in STEM, etc., for example) and invite them to apply. For my son, two years back, many of these offers showed up in the mail. For my daughter, there is a much higher incidence of these via email, as it saves the institution on postage costs and more of the college application process has moved toward 100% electronic. My own personal opinion is that if your child or you wants to do the work, it would not hurt to ask the Admissions Office directly if they will waive them. We had fees waived for two of my daughterâs apps this year, even though there was not an original offer of this. Every penny helps!</p>
<p>Rochester and McDaniel waived fees for the older son, as my husband and I attended those schools, respectively. Rhodes was a freebie for the younger son. Lawrence waived the fee for him, too, because he is a recruited athlete.</p>