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The problem is that many applicants don't realize that. During graduate school, I was active in recruitment in the sciences and I have often spoken with high-ac
by chriskanan 11y ago
The problem is that many applicants don't realize that. During graduate school, I was active in recruitment in the sciences and I have often spoken with high-achieving but low-income high school students and undergraduates, and many of them have false ideas about financial aid for undergraduate and graduate education.
- codemac 11y agoWell, many of these have prohibitive application fees that take a lot of work to get waved. I think that's a bigger immediate barrier than figuring out how you'd even pay for the schooling. I know I didn't apply to several schools merely out of exhaustion of trying to figure out how to not have to pay the application fee.
- morgante 11y agoThat doesn't match my experience at all. I had all my application fees waived with a simple email.
- jessaustin 11y agoI guess it has been too long for me... what fees were these? SAT/ACT fees? I don't recall there being any fee for actually filling out the application form and sending it in? Nevertheless, if schools have any control over the "front-end" fees, they might ought to start by eliminating those. Knowing that one needs to send an email like that is also a barrier of a sort.
- thex10 11y agoYep. In my day the fees at the more elite schools were about $70, which was entirely too much money. The effort required to waive the fee was enough to incentivize me to apply to fewer schools (thereby also incentivizing me to accept the first offer I got).