2015-2016 Fee Waivers Forum

benjaye · Post by **benjaye** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:05 pm

Both UCLA and University of Washington were really easy to solicit waivers. I received replies within the hour! I tried to solicit from Fordham but apparently they're only doing need based via snail-mail application.

KMart · Post by **KMart** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 3:00 am

seagan823 wrote:Sorry if this has already been addressed but are most fee waivers dependent on your transcript being accepted and an official LSAC GPA calculated? I have received fee waivers from Penn, Duke and Michigan from my lsat score alone but I'm not feeling the love from some other schools. Hoping that will change once my transcript is processed.

Have you asked? I got most of mine from asking and I gave them my LSAC #, GPA, and LSAT. Whether or not they checked my LSAC calculated GPA is beyond me, but they were almost identical.

RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:45 pm

seagan823 wrote:Sorry if this has already been addressed but are most fee waivers dependent on your transcript being accepted and an official LSAC GPA calculated? I have received fee waivers from Penn, Duke and Michigan from my lsat score alone but I'm not feeling the love from some other schools. Hoping that will change once my transcript is processed.

I'm in the same place and received several unsolicited T14 waivers for my LSAT score, but UVA is the only good school from which I've successfully solicited a waiver. It seems like the rest don't do merit waivers or make you wait for them to find you in a CRS search, and I think I got left out of the last round because I didn't have a GPA on file.

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:59 pm

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slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 4:45 pm

Did anyone else get an email from Harvard??? It's just a recruitment tactic, right? It doesn't really mean anything?

Hercules Mulligan · Post by **Hercules Mulligan** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 5:56 pm

slizerd wrote:Did anyone else get an email from Harvard??? It's just a recruitment tactic, right? It doesn't really mean anything?

Yeah, same. I was momentarily pretty excited and then I realized it was just an ad.

nondescript · Post by **nondescript** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 8:32 pm

slizerd wrote:Did anyone else get an email from Harvard??? It's just a recruitment tactic, right? It doesn't really mean anything?

Yeah. I was hoping I had miraculously gotten a fee waiver somehow, but no. I wonder if they sent that to everybody?

lolRCscrewyou · Post by **lolRCscrewyou** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 9:51 pm

Fee waiver from Chicago today!

slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:10 pm

nondescript wrote:
slizerd wrote:Did anyone else get an email from Harvard??? It's just a recruitment tactic, right? It doesn't really mean anything?
Yeah. I was hoping I had miraculously gotten a fee waiver somehow, but no. I wonder if they sent that to everybody?

Shhh let's just believe we're special.

pattyesq · Post by **pattyesq** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 10:20 am

lolRCscrewyou wrote:Fee waiver from Chicago today!

RC, did LSAC recently post your Academic Summary Report? I also received a Chicago fee waiver last night, but I was not in the "first wave". My ASR was posted on Monday, rather than last week when all of the fee waivers were going out. Just wondering if it is required to have both your GPA and LSAT score on file to receive some of these waivers.

brief_little_candle · Post by **brief_little_candle** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:13 pm

I jumped out of my bed out of excitement when i receive an email from Harvard today, but it later turned out to be an invitation to apply letter....

Does anyone know how to get a fee waiver from Harvard? Or should I just pay the money to show my respect?

slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:41 pm

brief_little_candle wrote:I jumped out of my bed out of excitement when i receive an email from Harvard today, but it later turned out to be an invitation to apply letter....

Does anyone know how to get a fee waiver from Harvard? Or should I just pay the money to show my respect?

They give absolutely zero waivers based on merit, it would have to be an extreme need-based situation to get one. I'm feeling pretty broke, but I'm gonna suck it up and pay =/ It's Harvard, I'm sure they expect people to be willing to pay.

brief_little_candle · Post by **brief_little_candle** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 6:57 pm

slizerd wrote:
brief_little_candle wrote:I jumped out of my bed out of excitement when i receive an email from Harvard today, but it later turned out to be an invitation to apply letter....

Does anyone know how to get a fee waiver from Harvard? Or should I just pay the money to show my respect?
They give absolutely zero waivers based on merit, it would have to be an extreme need-based situation to get one. I'm feeling pretty broke, but I'm gonna suck it up and pay =/ It's Harvard, I'm sure they expect people to be willing to pay.

i guess i am going to apply as well. It can be a story to tell my grandson about.

Also, i saw your earlier post. YES, WE ARE SPECIAL

SirArthurDayne · Post by **SirArthurDayne** » Thu Nov 05, 2015 7:11 pm

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lolRCscrewyou · Post by **lolRCscrewyou** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 5:11 am

pattyesq wrote:
lolRCscrewyou wrote:Fee waiver from Chicago today!
RC, did LSAC recently post your Academic Summary Report? I also received a Chicago fee waiver last night, but I was not in the "first wave". My ASR was posted on Monday, rather than last week when all of the fee waivers were going out. Just wondering if it is required to have both your GPA and LSAT score on file to receive some of these waivers.

No mine was posted last week.

lolRCscrewyou · Post by **lolRCscrewyou** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 5:12 am

Even though I'm probably going to get rejected to most of these schools, a fee waiver makes it worth taking the 1 in 100 chance, right? RIGHT?!

somethingElse · Post by **somethingElse** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 1:25 pm

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RZ5646 · Post by **RZ5646** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 1:50 pm

Columbia and NYU are the only ones I still need

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:10 pm

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seagan823 · Post by **seagan823** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:34 pm

gamerish wrote:
RZ5646 wrote:Columbia and NYU are the only ones I still need
Columbias is entirely LSAT based so you should get one whenever they do their next wave.

I don't have NYU either so no words of wisdom there.

You know what the CLS cutoff tends to be for LSAT for fee waivers?

slizerd · Post by **slizerd** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:33 pm

gamerish wrote:
RZ5646 wrote:Columbia and NYU are the only ones I still need
Columbias is entirely LSAT based so you should get one whenever they do their next wave.

I don't have NYU either so no words of wisdom there.

I'll trade you my NYU waiver for your Chicago waiver (if only)

PantoroB · Post by **PantoroB** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 4:43 pm

seagan823 wrote:You know what the CLS cutoff tends to be for LSAT for fee waivers?

I have a 171 and did not get one from Columbia or Chicago (or Cornell!!), but did get one from NYU.

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 10:22 pm

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somethingElse · Post by **somethingElse** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:24 pm

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bearnice · Post by **bearnice** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 11:33 pm

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