<p>@picktails I think the definition of “can’t afford” and whether or not you’re allowed to use the waivers is totally up to the school counselor. As long as they understand what they’re for and approve them on CA, you should be able to use them. I used them and mailed them in and was waived for all 8, even though I don’t meet any requirements like public assistance, etc</p>
<p>Picktails I received flyer similar to yours. It confuses you a lot as it can be interpreted both ways. I guess only way to use them is to answer YES to- do you qualify for waiver in CA and then mail them to colleges. </p>
<p>Can someone tell me how it works? Let’s say you add 9 colleges in your profile and you have 8 fee waiver, you answer YES to the above question. When you submit applications to colleges, does it ask you again whether you have a fee waiver or not? </p>
<p>If colleges didn’t get the fee waiver or they did not approve it, then what happens? will they charge you for the fees? as you did not pay it while submitting application.</p>
<p>Please go back to post 134. While you may click that you are using a fee waiver on the common app, unless your GC or school administrator approves the fee waiver on their end when they log into the common app, the fee waiver will denied. If you are using the regular college board fee waivers, it will have a spot for the GC/administrator to sign and to enter their CEEB code.</p>
<p>Your best bet would be to call the colleges in question and ask them how to proceed with the fee waiver</p>
<p>Yes, we have been and will continue to use the waivers (GC said “congratulations” and has no problem with them.)</p>
<p>I do feel based on the inconsistent information being provided as to who should use these waivers that no one can be faulted for doing so.</p>
<p>My daughter checked “yes” on the CA based on the fact that she was GIVEN waivers.
She has also been given waivers directly from Tufts, Northwestern, and Oberlin, without any questions about socioeconomic status. The only way to use these with the common app is to check “yes” about qualifying.</p>
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<p>It specifically says, but do not meet the need based eligibility criterion within CA, you will need to pay, there is quite the confusion around this issue. I think it all depends on your GC, if they approve it, looks like you can use it.</p>
<p>Hi,
So recently I receive an envelope from collegeboard with 4 free fee waivers in them. Each wavier state “Request for Waiver of College Application Fee” part of the “4 or more” program?
I understand that I am suppose to mail it in with my application, however I am planning to use it for UC schools which is an online process. I have exceeded my 4 waivers that are provided by the schools and I wanted to use one of these in addition to that. </p>
<p>Does anyone know how I would go about using these fee waivers for UC schools?
Should I pay the $70 and then send in the wavier?
HELP!</p>
<p>Your questions are not written well enough to be entirely comprehensible to me.</p>
<p>UC has their OWN fee waiver process. The max they will waive is 4–you will have to pay for any additional campuses. From the UC website:</p>
<p>You can apply for a fee waiver within the online application and be notified immediately whether you have qualified. You will need to provide your family’s income and the number of people supported by that income.
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/application-fees/[/url]”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/application-fees/</a></p>
<p>I’m sorry but I don’t seem to have posted the whole story above. A student I know said when she went to the payment part, there was a pull down that had college board waiver as an option. And I don’t know how they will treat more than 4. But if they accept the waiver, you don’t have to pay for it first. You just send the waiver.</p>
<p>UC will tell you on the spot when you are applying if you can have a fee waiver from them. You input your number of family members and your income. But I also found this College Board mention:</p>
<p>If a student is denied the UC online fee waiver, a written request with corrected income and family size information can be submitted to the UC Application Center. UC also accept the College Board fee waiver. Only one waiver can be used.
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/files/presenting-yourself-uc-application-freshman.pdf[/url]”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/how-to-apply/files/presenting-yourself-uc-application-freshman.pdf</a></p>
<p>So maybe you can use the waiver for the extra campus, I’m not clear on that.</p>
<p>So My GC did approve the fee waiver in CA. I have received 8 College application fee waivers(realize your college potential). The packet have provided list of participating Institutions. Two of my colleges are not in the list.</p>
<p>Will I be able to get fee waivers for these colleges? </p>
<p>Once GC has approved fee waiver, does that mean all the colleges you apply to you don’t have to pay application fee? Does GC have to do anything besides this? </p>
<p>I’m talking about few different things here 1. What else GC have to do besides approving fee waiver in CA 2. Will the colleges outside participating institution accept CB fee waiver forms? 3. Once GC has approved fee waiver in CA, do you get fee waiver regardless of whether you have fee waiver form or not? I believe you have to mail some kind of form in order to get fee waiver. Whether it is CB form or NCAC form.</p>
<p>I thought I’d go ahead and update my daughter’s waiver status here since there has been a ridiculous amount of confusion over these things!</p>
<p>My daughter sent in all her applications (using the Common App) at the end of October. She wound up using all 8 of the Realize Your College Potential waivers. As of this writing, every single waiver used was accepted, and she’s waiting for EA decisions from a few schools. Oddly, we did NOT get the e-mail with the clarification as to who may use those waivers until some time in early December - obviously long after they were used, in our case. So, original package in early/mid October… clarification that it really WAS supposed to be for financial need only, in December… the department(s) responsible for setting up this program will probably have a few heads roll due to the way it was sent out!</p>
<p>I am grateful to College Board for the waivers, but hope they will get their act together in the future if this program does continue. The original package should have stated that financial need was required in order to use the waivers, and since it did not - and we obtained the GC’s blessing - I do not feel guilty that my daughter used hers. If the original intent was to push students to apply to a few ‘reach’ schools that they ordinarily would not have, then their aim was achieved. My daughter did just that - she added a few reach schools, as well as using a couple of waivers on schools that she had already identified as the ones she was going to apply to. </p>
<p>I hope everyone else who used their waivers had the same good results!</p>
<p>Hey guys, I am a hs senior applying to colleges through the common app. I received the up to four fee waivers from the college board. I wanted to know if in addition to these, can I use the NACAC fee waivers too? I have about 6 colleges that I will need them for, and have already used one college board waiver. What is the procedure for using the NACAC fee waivers. Do I just fill out the form and mail it to each college? Thanks for the help and advice.</p>
<p>Yes, you can use NACAC fee waivers if you are fee waiver eligible. The NACAC fee waivers must be signed by your school counselor and must be stamped with the school seal.</p>
<p>So I can have a total of 8 colleges waived right using the NACAC and the college board fee waivers? If so, thank you for the fast reply.</p>
<p>Also, on the common app, if i click eligible for fee waivers, do I need to mail a fee waiver to each school or does clicking yes notify the colleges that I don’t need to pay for applications?</p>
<p>One more thing, to use the NACAC, I print out 4 copies, get them signed by my guidance counselor and just mail them in with the other credintials required accodring to each college that I am applying to, correct? Does it matter whether or not I send the NACAC forms before or after I submit my apps.</p>
<p>The NACAC fee waivers must be signed and sealed or the school won’t accept them. Yes you can do 4 college board and 4 NACAC fee wAivers. You click on the common app that you Reusing a fee waiver. The school logs in to confirm and approve and you mail in the actual signed/sealed fee waiver</p>
<p>I did receive Realize your college potential 8 fee waivers. My GC has signed fee waiver in CA and I already applied to few colleges and it did not ask for any payment.</p>
<p>Do I need to mail the above fee waiver forms or once GC approves it and CA did not ask for any payment, it’s all taken care of. </p>
<p>If I add new colleges to my college list in CA, it shows fee waiver submitted under GC tab. Does that mean I can apply to as many colleges as I want without any fee? </p>
<p>How does this? Once GC has approved fee waiver in CA, is that the last step or colleges would like to see some more supporting documentation.</p>
<p>Hi all,
My daughter received the College Board “Realize Your College Potential” packet, w/8 fee waiver forms, as well. After reading every forum comment I could find, I decided to contact the schools directly to see if they would accept these even though we do not qualify for a financial-need-based fee waiver.</p>
<p>I sent the following e-mail:
Hello,</p>
<p>My daughter is very interested in the University of XX and is working through the Common App process.</p>
<p>This fall, she received a packet from the College Board which contained, among other materials, eight (8) “Official Fee Waivers.” The cover letter implied that she had received these based on her “outstanding academic achievements.” </p>
<p>I am sure you are aware of the confusion surrounding these waivers as I find numerous online discussion board threads about them. In an attempt to clarify, we are inquiring of individual colleges as to:</p>
<pre><code>-whether your institution will accept one of these fee waivers, and if so,
-how we would go about completing the Common App so that we are not giving a misleading (“Yes”) answer to the question regarding financial need for a fee waiver (which is, as far as I can tell, the only way to avoid using a credit card or checking account to make a payment and submit the application).
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<p>Even though we do not qualify for fee waivers under the standard financial need criteria, utilizing some of these waivers will allow my daughter to apply to a broader range of schools than she might otherwise have done.</p>
<p>Thank you for any guidance you can provide,
(me)</p>
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<p>Cornell University replied with the following e-mail:</p>
<p>Greetings:</p>
<p>It is wonderful to hear of your daughter’s interest in Cornell University. </p>
<p>Hundreds of students received fee waivers from the College Board this year and they used selective criteria to identify students. Regardless of eligibility, Cornell will honor the fee waivers and students can select the fee waiver option on the Common Application and mail in the official waiver. </p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>Nicole Curvin
Admissions Officer
Cornell University
Undergraduate Admissions Office</p>
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<p>The University of Delaware initially replied with an e-mail that indicated they thought I was requesting a fee waiver - which of course was not the case. I followed up with a phone call today and was able to explain the situation (the person who answered the phone in the Admissions office hadn’t heard about this - kind of surprising). After checking with her supervisor, she returned to tell me that it was fine for my daughter to check the “yes” box on the Common App, and use the fee waiver form (by mailing it in to the address in the booklet that came with the waivers).</p>
<p>We are also meeting with the guidance counselor to explain this whole thing in case she gets any calls to “verify our fee waiver need.”</p>
<p>So, I say, if you get an e-mail OK to use these, or a phone approval (I got her name!), go for it. The school has advance notice that we do not qualify for a financial-based waiver, but they are choosing to honor the fee waivers that the College Board sent out - ethical dilemma resolved.</p>