Admissions Deposit Not Required!!

For many colleges, May 1 is the deadline by which admitted applicants must either accept or decline offers of admissions -- sending in a deposit (theoretically to only one institution) to save a spot.

Many colleges this year report a surge of students deciding at the last minute and mailing their replies on May 1, meaning that the counting of deposits continued well into last week. The first news reports on students' decisions -- as is the case with much commentary on college admissions -- have focused on the most elite colleges, which also happen to provide generous financial aid packages, these days reaching well into the middle class. So it's no surprise to most who follow admissions that places like Harvard and Yale Universities are reporting nearly identical "yields" -- the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll -- to last year.

While this may be the case, you do not have to pay an admissions deposit to be accepted into many academic institutions. If you choose to use the common application (the application accepted my many institutions of higher learning) https://www.commonapp.org, you can see that many institutions do not require a admissions deposit. And in many cases, you can negotiate your way out of it, all you have to do is ask. Thats it. Let the admissions dept know that you are not able to afford the fee and based on your grades and academic stattus, they will waive the fee. It's just that easy.