<p>Given the exceedingly high costs of even applying to college, has anyone ever attempted to request application fee waivers as a transfer? If so, what kind of procedure did you go through to procure one? Were you ultimately given one or denied? It seems to me that application fee waivers are easy to come as a freshman applicant (through the College Board Fee Waiver program or some other) but more difficult to come by as a transfer applicant since schools are not accustomed to receiving such a request from transfers. </p>
<p>i applied to some schools requesting fee waivers. All of the ones that I asked for a fee waiver gave me one, and a lot of that was due to the fact that some of the transfer admissions for schools require you to apply by paper, and because of that they state to attach a check. because i had no cash funds i contacted each school and asked if i could possibly get a feewaiver or if there was a way they can charge it to my credit card, and they suggested to just attach to your paper application a letter requesting a fee waiver due to your financial situation/problem.</p>
<p>That's what I did. I emailed and asked S and Amherst to wave their common app fee and they did. CMC and Pomona didn't even require me to send it because I showed financial need.</p>
<p>Its even easier for the UC's schools. Your income just needs to be in a certain bracket and you get to apply to up to 4 UC's of your choice for free. They'll ask you as part of your application and they will automatically tell you if you qualified at the end.</p>
<p>That's interesting Bourne.
Swarthmore was very much not willing to give me a fee waiver first hand. They said if i didn't have a collegeboard feewaiver attached, that a request(verbal or written) wouldn't suffice. I told them that if that was the case then I guess I can't apply and to disregard my application,transcripts, letter of recommendations etc. The only thing I could do is give them my credit card number, and for them to charge it, for some weird reason or another they weren't willing to accept a credit card. I imagine there must be something political about charging a credit card for an application, maybe it makes it seem like revenue for the school as opposed to a check coming off looking like a donation? I dont know. Long story short, they emailed me days later saying they'd accept my written request for a fee waiver.</p>
<p>Interesting, interesting. Liek, you mentioned that some of the transfer schools required you to apply by paper. Was that because of the fact you were applying for a fee waiver or did they not accept online applications for transfers at all? And how does one apply through the Common App with a fee waiver? I've never used the Common App before, so is there some special section on the Common App that says, "I intend to apply with a fee waiver?" </p>
<p>Oh yeah, I think it'd be great if we can compile a master list of schools receptive to transfer application fee waivers and also if they accept written requests or require other additional forms of financial verification.</p>