App fee waiver

I've heard of schools sending fee waivers to long shot candidates to inflate the rejection rate but this is not the same as saying that taking advantage of the fee waiver had any effect on the acceptance rate of students who took advantage of them. Indeed, they would have enjoyed a low probability of success whether they used the waiver or not.

I would love to see the logic behind reducing the admissions chances of candidates that your school recruited because they seemed like viable candidates and thus you wanted to encourage them to apply by sending a waiver.

Since the attributes of those who receive waivers are often quite strong, it is reasonable that they would have a higher acceptance rate (again, not because of the waiver per se, but because waiver status would be dependent on high standing on admissions attributes).

Hjort