UD‘s friend Courtney, applying to law school, received this.
Waiving application fees is now apparently pretty standard; the Amazon gift card is, I think, something new.
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Update: Also on offer: Starbucks cards and hundreds of dollars worth of travel expenses. (See this post’s comment thread.)
November 1st, 2016 at 3:29PM
Oh, if she has good grades and LSAT scores, having her apply to Alabama law school helps their stats even if she doesn’t go there. So the gift card might be worth it for them.
November 1st, 2016 at 3:33PM
wayward: She does indeed have both…
November 1st, 2016 at 4:43PM
Can’t recall if you followed the Paul Pless debacle several years ago, but he was basically cooking numbers to push Illinois Law’s ranking up: http://abovethelaw.com/tag/paul-pless/
November 1st, 2016 at 6:09PM
echoes of late-night tv ads telling us if we buy now we also get_____.
November 1st, 2016 at 9:16PM
Just thirty bucks? Sheesh!
November 2nd, 2016 at 4:14AM
Update: Penn State is offering 10$ Starbucks gift card in exchange for some low-level PII (I had them send it to my mother) and 300$ worth of travel expenses to come visit:
“There’s no better time than now to apply to the law school with the most elite small entering class in the country—and that’s a fact.
The best way to get to know us is to come see us for yourself. If you apply and schedule an individual campus visit or attend an admitted student open house, we’ll reimburse you up to $300 in travel costs plus one night’s hotel stay.
What are you waiting for?”
November 2nd, 2016 at 4:08PM
God, this is pitiful.
Of course, our administrators will copy this as soon as they find out. We already are giving away free t-shirts and other merchandise to applicants. Enticing completely inadmissible students to apply is just as valuable as getting the great ones. It can make us appear to be more selective than we actually are and bump us up in the rankings.