2015-2016 Fee Waivers Forum

[JuliusCaesar]

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[proteinshake]

I am above Emory's 75ths in GPA and LSAT. I have gotten unsolicited fee waivers from everyone in the top 14 minus HYS and Berkeley. Yet Emory hasn't sent me one and they didn't even respond to my request. Also vanderbilt sent me back an auto response about only getting fee waivers from CRS. Meanwhile, my friend with a 160 LSAT and lesser GPA than mine has gotten fee waivers from both of them. What kind of crap is this? I guess Emory thinks they are going to squeeze 80 dollars out of me....not.

I feel the same way about Cornell, except they are going to squeeze the money out of me.

[RZ5646]

I am above Emory's 75ths in GPA and LSAT. I have gotten unsolicited fee waivers from everyone in the top 14 minus HYS and Berkeley. Yet Emory hasn't sent me one and they didn't even respond to my request. Also vanderbilt sent me back an auto response about only getting fee waivers from CRS. Meanwhile, my friend with a 160 LSAT and lesser GPA than mine has gotten fee waivers from both of them. What kind of crap is this? I guess Emory thinks they are going to squeeze 80 dollars out of me....not.

I feel the same way about Cornell, except they are going to squeeze the money out of me.

Don't even bother with Emory and Vandy. I'm significantly above their 75ths and I got the same response (or lack thereof). Maybe this is hardcore yield protection where they don't even want well qualified applicants to apply?

[proteinshake]

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[RZ5646]

I am above Emory's 75ths in GPA and LSAT. I have gotten unsolicited fee waivers from everyone in the top 14 minus HYS and Berkeley. Yet Emory hasn't sent me one and they didn't even respond to my request. Also vanderbilt sent me back an auto response about only getting fee waivers from CRS. Meanwhile, my friend with a 160 LSAT and lesser GPA than mine has gotten fee waivers from both of them. What kind of crap is this? I guess Emory thinks they are going to squeeze 80 dollars out of me....not.

I feel the same way about Cornell, except they are going to squeeze the money out of me.

Don't even bother with Emory and Vandy. I'm significantly above their 75ths and I got the same response (or lack thereof). Maybe this is hardcore yield protection where they don't even want well qualified applicants to apply?

I got one from Emory but I don't think I'm gonna apply. I don't think I can use it to leverage $ from T14. or am I wrong?

I'm no expert, but I don't think it would give you much leverage. Maybe if they were already borderline on giving you more money and you have other reasons for going to Emory, but I think Emory is too far down in the rankings for them to care much.

[newrad]

Columbia came today!

[pterodactyls]

Columbia came today!

YASSSSSSS.

So glad I waited a week to submit.

[pterodactyls]

Now the the last one I'm waiting for is Northwestern, and I will ride it out until the deadline.

[Howard2Harvard]

Columbia came today!

YASSSSSSS.

So glad I waited a week to submit.

Right! finally!

[livermouse]

If I successfully solicit a fee waiver, should I write a thank you email?

[WaitersIsland]

Now the the last one I'm waiting for is Northwestern, and I will ride it out until the deadline.

I'm waiting on Northwestern, too. Has anyone had success soliciting a fee waiver from NW?

[pterodactyls]

If I successfully solicit a fee waiver, should I write a thank you email?

I don't think it's necessary. Admissions offices are getting slammed with so many emails this time of year, it just gives them another email they have to read.

Just my thoughts, I don't claim to be an expert.

[pterodactyls]

Now the the last one I'm waiting for is Northwestern, and I will ride it out until the deadline.

I'm waiting on Northwestern, too. Has anyone had success soliciting a fee waiver from NW?

I know they gave out free applications to everyone that applied before sometime in October/November. But from looking at last year's thread, it seems that they still gave out waivers close to the deadline. Not sure if the "free deadline before X date" is new this year though, so that could affect waivers.

[RZ5646]

Now the the last one I'm waiting for is Northwestern, and I will ride it out until the deadline.

I'm waiting on Northwestern, too. Has anyone had success soliciting a fee waiver from NW?

I know they gave out free applications to everyone that applied before sometime in October/November. But from looking at last year's thread, it seems that they still gave out waivers close to the deadline. Not sure if the "free deadline before X date" is new this year though, so that could affect waivers.

They sent out CRS waivers immediately after that free app promotion ended on November 15th; not sure about anything after that point.

[bezmialem]

I tried to solicit from Northwestern and was denied. Do you think there's any point in waiting for CRS or should I just bite the bullet?

[somethingElse]

I tried to solicit from Northwestern and was denied. Do you think there's any point in waiting for CRS or should I just bite the bullet?

I would personally bite the bullet. Its getting later on in the cycle now and, from what I've heard anecdotally, just about right at the point where you'd be at a significant disadvantage if you waited much longer to apply.

I can also tell you from my experience that I didn't receive fee waivers from 3 schools that I would have expected to. And I didn't receive them for the entire period between October's scores coming out and December's scores coming out.

[njkga]

T14 fee waivers I received unsolicited:
Columbia
NYU (on the basis of military veteran status)
Duke
Georgetown

T14 Waivers I solicited
UVA
Northwestern
Penn
Michigan

Cornell didn't give me one, just sent a link to their FAQ.

I also got one from basically every school from 15 on down the rankings

For the record, my numbers are 167/3.39

[sjp200]

UT and GULC said no waiver for you.

NW and UCLA gave one no problem in like 3 hours response time

[pterodactyls]

Just got Northwestern!!

Glad I waited the extra week.