Why did Duke send me a waiver? o.O

[MattProgressive]

Why did Duke send me a waiver? I only have a 160/3.79. Is it so they can reject me in order to increase their "yield percentage" or whatever? Obviously 70 bucks is nothing to them compared to their posistion in the rankings lol.

[MattProgressive]

fee waiver*

[vap]

Yes, by encouraging students to apply so that the school can reject them, the school would increase its acceptance rate--a factor in the U.S. News rankings.  This strategy is not unheard of.  But if you self-identified with LSAC as an URM, then you might actually have a shot at acceptance.

[brocklanders12]

I am a URM with a 164 and got fee waivers from Columbia and Duke, and then some schools I actually can get into. If you're URM, may as well send it. If not, decide if you want to waste the $12.

[MattProgressive]

im not a URM, those bastards, making me wanna waste 12 bucks in THIS economy >.<

[StonewallJacksonFan]

I am 162/3.94 and also got a waiver from Duke.  $12 is dirt to me so I went ahead and applied.  I guess they are trying to break out of the 10th place tie in the rankings, lol.

[cariberry]

hahahaha I asked the same question b/c I got a 162/3.87.
UVA also waived my fee, and that clearly isn't going to happen.

[StonewallJacksonFan]

Acceptance rate is a big input into USNWR rating calculation, so I am sure these schools are artificially fudging their acceptance rates, similar to how they fudge their employment after graduation statistics.  However, I applied a month ago and they have not even started reviewing my application.  Wonder what they are waiting for to reject me.