Unfortunately, some schools are trying to generate a large base of rejected applicants by waiving application fees.
Specifically, Autor et al. (2011) find that the SSDI determination process directly reduces the post-application employment of denied applicants by approximately 3.6 percentage points (7percentt) and allowed applicants by approximately 5.2 percentage points (33percentt).
This research has exploited elements of randomness in the assignment of judges responsible for the screening process, implying that some applications are accepted or rejected because the applicants by chance were assigned particularly lenient or strict judges.
With the exception of Sudan, Germany received more applications from every single one of Britain's top five applicants by country of origin.
Michigan could scare away some applicants by requiring them to take a second standardized test.
The first co-op residents were selected from among 15 applicants, by Hygienic Art, Inc.
The artists were chosen from 150 applicants by a jury of visual arts professionals.
The Census Bureau had planned on recruiting 700,000 applicants by April for address canvassing.
And in Chile, LG Electronics recently pranked unsuspecting job applicants by staging a fake meteor attack.
The N.E.A. began notifying applicants by mail late last week of the grant amounts they could expect.
In 1996, tests were created which measured applicants by their job-related abilities rather than by race.
