Does anyone know ANYTHING about Fee Waivers?

Applying to College
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<p>The financial aid and fee waiver processes have hardly been explained around here and are often buried in the deep depths of most college websites. It is not from lack of trying to find the info that I am asking you now.</p>

<p>I have been looking at many different college sites concerning Fee Waivers. About half say:
Letter/Request signed by Counselor</p>

<p>And the other half say:
Fee Waiver form signed by Counselor. (But there are no "fee waiver forms" in sight.)</p>

<p>However, there is a huge amount that just say "a fee waiver" is required.</p>

<p>I applied EASC to Harvard, and my counselor sent a letter requesting a fee waiver, and as far as I can tell they accepted it (I got my confirmation and was never called about it). All their site said, if I recall correctly, was "a fee waiver" as being required.</p>

<p>Does anyone know where to get a fee waiver form? Do these exist?
Are forms on their sites that I am not seeing?
Should I just send letters to all of them?
Or is there really a 4 college limit?</p>

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<p>Does anyone know where to get a fee waiver form? Your counselor should have them. You get four college application fee waivers from collegeboard if you took the SAT with their exam fee waiver, likewise forACT.</p>

<p>Do these exist? yes they exist</p>

<p>Are forms on their sites that I am not seeing? no they are not online, you have to get them from your counselor</p>

<p>Should I just send letters to all of them? you could, but your counselor should have fee waiver forms</p>

<p>Or is there really a 4 college limit? if you qualify, you get total 8 fee waivers: 4 from collegeboard, and 4 from ACT testing</p>

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<p>Hi</p>

<p>If you hunt around the college board site...type in fee waiver, it might be in the guidance counselor section, you will find a fee waiver form. We just downloaded it and brought it to S's Guidance Counselor.</p>

<p>Your GC might have her own guidelines, but S's GC just signed all of them.</p>

<p>Hope that helps.</p>

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<p>Do you guys think I'm talking about SAT/ACT fee waivers? I was wondering about college application fee waivers.</p>

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<p>Here's the link : </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nacac.com/downloads/form_feewaiver.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nacac.com/downloads/form_feewaiver.pdf&lt;/a> </p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Wow thank you! Do you know if there is a limit?</p>

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<p>You just need your guidance counselor to vouch for you and ask the schools to waive the fee with a letter saying so.</p>

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<p>If you are eligible for SAT fee waivers, you can also get collegeboard application fee waivers (what i did)</p>

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<p>I don't think there is a limit. dd didn't apply for SAT fee waiver unfortunately, but was able to get fee waivers for 3 UC's (you input your income) which we did ourselves, and for 5 other private colleges, all throught the school college guidance officer.</p>