About-Face on Fee Waivers

Regardless of whether Joshua Jackson ends up enrolling at New York University, the would-be applicant has already changed the university. Jackson went public this weekend with the email they (Jackson's preferred pronoun) received from a university administrator turning down their request for a fee waiver. With the response Jackson received drawing widespread criticism from advocates for low-income students, who note that many can't afford application fees, NYU reversed course on Monday. The university announced that it would not only waive application fees but would offer to do so publicly.