<p>My friend (an international student) has a yearly family income of 12000-13000 $. Yearly Medical expenses and her sisters education costs sum-up to 2000 $. She will be applying to a lot of schools and the total application-fee costs are reaching to as high as 1400 $. Her school-list is made up of both need-blind and non need-blind schools.</p>
<p>In this case, should she apply for fee-waivers? She doubts that applying for fee-waives might put her at a disadvantage of sorts. So, considering the total scenario, what should she do?</p>