I think it’s worth mentioning that when I went to the Emma Willard open house and interviewed way back when, I was told that they did not offer application fee waivers. The man who interviewed me – who works in development – did not know this. I was then told by someone else that they do offer fee waivers, and they sort of denied that anyone had said otherwise.
I know that Emma is a wonderful school, and I would’ve been thrilled to attend, but since they were hesitant to waive a $50 fee I didn’t see it likely that I would get a full ride from them. For anyone who hasn’t been around since the dinosaur ages of CC, I was flat-out rejected.
It looks to me like their focus is smaller grants to upper-middle class families rather than those of us from the bottom quarter. Which is fine, if that’s what they’re doing, but I wish they had said it up front before we spent time and money going out to Troy.