<p>I'm a Senior right now applying to five common app schools and 4 other schools. I've completed all of the common app schools' requirements, and I have sent in the applications. My question is this: </p>
<p>In the payment section, it said that the application fees have been waived, but on the information site for one of my schools (Carnegie Mellon University) it says there is a 75$ fee. Is this the fee that Common App says that it waived?</p>
<p>what kind of fee waivers do you have?</p>
<p>If you have regular college board fee waivers, you can use up to 4
If you have NACAC fee waivers then you can use another 4</p>
<p>One of the challenges that you have right now that even in the common app, they have to be approved. Is there anyway that you can email your GC to have him/her log on and approve the fee waivers.</p>
<p>you need to ask carnegie mellon how to proceed regarding their payment, especially if they have waived your fee</p>
<p>Update: I just got an email from one of the colleges, U of Chicago, prompting me to make an account on their site to help communications during the process. On the site, it says that they have received the CA application as well as the supplement. Would they have received either if the fee waiver hadn’t already been approved?</p>
<p>NO, they would not have. The common app fee waiver is a 2 step process. The student puts on the common app that s/he is paying using a few waiver and submits the application. The GC/school administrator logs into the common app website, goes through the list of students, clicks the fee waiver tab and approves the fee waiver for all students who have applied for fee waivers.</p>
<p>If your counselor does not approve the fee, you will have to pay the fee. Usually you will hear from the school immediately that you have submitted an application. It will usually take a couple of days before it crosses with the application fee because some students have fees paid by credit card, snail mail (checks, money orders or the mailings of the physical application fee waiver). Just because the school has confirmed receiving your application, does not mean that they have approved your fee waiver.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick replies. I know this all seems like common sense, but I wish it had been said somewhere during the process. I’ve emailed my GC, and I’m not expecting anything before the 28th, but at least everything’s done on my part for the colleges with a Jan. 1st deadline. At least I know I’m getting the college board waivers as I’ve already used three of them, and it shouldn’t be too hard to get the NACAC waiver for the last school.</p>
<p>I get more and more confused the more I try to research the Common App. Is there a “For Dummies” version?</p>