Okay, so I just got four fee waivers from the College Board. People have told me that I cannot use them for the University of California or California State University applications. Is this true?
What does the university of California system say about fee waivers? Start there
For UC schools, you don’t have to use up your College Board waivers.
Within the UC application for admission, there is a place to apply for a fee waiver. If you qualify, the app fee will be waived for up to four campuses.
Your GC can also certify your eligibility on the common application.
You can use your fee waivers for universities not on the common app (there your guidance counselor will check a box to indicate out qualify for college park fee waivers). UC’s have their own waivers so that our can ‘save’ the four fee waivers for other universities.
If you qualify for fee waivers and for UC 's, target meet need universities like Pomona and other Claremonts, plus colleges that try to increase their percentage of lower income students such as Vassar, Yale, Colby…
You can also send four free SAT score reports and CSS profile should have a fee waiver protocol as well.
NACAC Fee Waivers
http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/feewaiver/pages/default.aspx
“The NACAC Request for Admission Application Fee Waiver form and SAT® Fee Waiver are mutually exclusive. As such, students may use both the NACAC and College Board forms when requesting fee waivers.”
Kat