<p>No one who needs one can afford costs without it, usually. That doesn’t really equate with being lenient or not. Using words like strict or lenient implies letting you slide or something. I suppose it is a individual judgement on the specific situation which I imagine is different for each case. If other colleges have given it, that’s a good sign wouldn’t you say? All the colleges dd applied to accepted it. State schools to LAC’s to Uni’s.</p>