<p>Hey im applying to 12 colleges via the common application website, im almost done with my application and in process of finishing my supplements.</p>
<p>All of those colleges require me to pay fees ranging from 60 to 95... im facing around 800$ dollars in application fees or dropping colleges from the list, anyone knows how an international can get fee waivers?</p>
<p>im applying to all the ivies, stanford, duke and notre dame</p>
<p>E-mail the schools and ask. They will tell you if they give fee waivers to internationals (some don’t) and how to proceed.</p>
<p>I just sent a letter from my counselor requesting a fee waiver.</p>
<p>Ok ill email the schools, what bothers me is that i sent some emails last week with questions related to my application and most schools didnt answer, the ones who did were with robot-answers and only Yale actually replied to my questions</p>
<p>I find admissions people to be averse to email in general. I hate the phone and love email but I’ve found that when I email questions I usually don’t end up with answers. Between automated answers, students working in admissions office who don’t really answer questions, being referred to a website that doesn’t answer my question and replies that just tell me to call, email just doesn’t work out well for me and college admissions. </p>
<p>That being said I did have one school reply with a very thoughtful email about 3 weeks after I wrote them.</p>
<p>Then again I had a another school never respond to email so I called. Whoever answered transferred me to someone’s voicemail. I left a message and never heard back from email or phone. </p>
<p>Let us know how the fee waiver thing works out. I’m facing the pain of fees too.</p>
<p>Hopefully some admission offices havent gone on vacational break and i can call them.</p>
<p>By the way anyone knows of an organization offering fee waivers for internationals that can be reached? if online the better.</p>
<p>You can have your counselor write a letter explaining the need for a fee waiver. That is enough. Some colleges even accept a letter from you personally, so there’s no need of a counselor sometimes.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>There are none. Some people use the NACAC, but I’m not sure if that’s accepted. The College Board Fee Waiver program is only for American citizens.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school too. I’ve asked for some fee waivers and gotten various answers. One school said to use the NACAC form even if I don’t fit its criteria and have it signed by a counselor “if possible”. Another school said that my asking about it alone qualified me for a fee waiver provided that at some point before enrollment I prove my income is less than 60k(which it is). Another school basically just asked how much I made and told me that I qualified. I would just keep emailing and calling.</p>
<p>Most of the private colleges and universities will provide you with an application fee waiver. Follow the steps:</p>
<p>->Ask your counselor to type a fee waiver letter stating the reason why you want it
->Print it in the letter head of your school
->Get the signature of your counselor/official
->Scan it
->Ask your counselor to upload that file in his/her commonapp account(there is a special place to update fee waiver)
->You log in to your account
->Send the application
->Send the supplement(if any)
->Goto Payment
->Select fee waiver I don’t remember the name but there is something NACAC or sth like that(for the meantime lets call it NACAC)…just select NACAC fee waiver
->DONE!</p>
<p>You may ask how can NACAC fee waiver form work for you…but it does. Everyone from our school does the same thing and it works! </p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Use the NACAC waiver. Stanford accepted it from me (I applied REA) </p>
<p>But the process of using it is not as Confidential 2015 has indicated. When you are done with your apps, submit the common App + Supplements, then go to payments and select NACAC fee waiver. There are some requirement, and when you select the waiver, a page opens showing you the requirements. If you think you qualify, type in your name into the signature box and date it. Once this is done, it will indicate in the payment section that a fee waiver has been requested and hence indicate the payments as complete. </p>
<p>At this time, the form will show up in your counselor’s account (next to the SSR) from where s/he can fill it out. </p>
<p>You can check whether it has been submitted from the school forms tab. </p>
<p>Caveat: You can only use the NACAC fee waiver for 4 schools. and you have to meet the income eligibility. And submitting it doesn’t guarantee the school will waive the fee. My advice, apply to less schools, 12 is too many.</p>
<p>Good luck mate. :)</p>
<p>
I disagree. Four years ago, I was offered admission to 2 out of 10 colleges I applied to. Only one of those offered me enough financial aid to attend. (Both met my full need as determined by their institutional financial aid formula, but their perception of my need was different from my own perception.) Ironically, the one college I am now attending would have been the first one to get scratched off the list if I had applied to fewer schools.</p>
<p>All of the colleges on the OP’s list are super selective, even more so among international applicants than domestic ones. Applying broadly is the only sensible strategy if you are shooting for the top universities. $300 for application fees means nothing compared a 4-year college education.</p>