<p>I'm just a little confused seeing how the SAT college app fee waivers have a list of schools that will accept the waiver and consider waiving your application fee. ACT doesn't appear to have a list of schools like SAT/College Board however, so how do they work?</p>
<p>Do I just send an ACT college app waiver to a school and hope they'll take it?</p>
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<p>To my knowledge, there are no ACT fee waivers that will waive the college application fee. They don’t have a physical college application fee waiver, the way that the college board does. If the school will waive your fee based on getting an ACT fee waiver, I would recommend that you submit a copy of the fee waiver you used to register for the exam signed by your counselor, along with a print out of your ACT test registration proving that your fee was waived for the exam.</p>
<p>Individual colleges will often waive the application fee if you/your school fills out a form like this one: [FAQs</a> for Application Fee Waiver Form](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/feewaiver/Pages/default.aspx]FAQs”>http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/feewaiver/Pages/default.aspx)</p>
<p>This is different form getting your ACT/SAT fees waived, though I suspect the qualifications are similar:</p>
<p>Students are eligible to use the form if:</p>
<pre><code>Student has received or is eligible to receive an ACT or SAT testing fee waiver.
Student is enrolled in or eligible to participate in the Federal Free or Reduced Price Lunch program (FRPL).
Student’s annual family income falls within the Income Eligibility Guidelines set by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
Student is enrolled in a federal, state or local program that aids student from low-income families (e.g., TRIO programs such as Upward Bound).
Student’s family receives public assistance
Student lives in federally subsidized public housing, a foster home or is homeless.
Student is a ward of the state or an orphan.
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<p>I’m sure the original poster no longer needs this, but for the sake of those searching in the future:</p>
<p>ACT does provide college application fee waivers. If your guidance counselor doesn’t know about them, the form is included in the downloadable handbook for ACT: <a href=“http://media.act.org/documents/User-Handbook-12-13.pdf[/url]”>http://media.act.org/documents/User-Handbook-12-13.pdf</a></p>
<p>They do not seem to be quite as widely accepted as the SAT application fee waivers, but several colleges we’ve looked at do mention them on their website.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link, I will print them out. This will expand the number of fee waivers to 16 for my student base who require fee waivers (4 CB, 4 NACAC, 4 SUNY & 4 ACT)</p>
<p>Here is the rub,</p>
<p>When ordering ACT exam fee waivers, they do not even inform you that they offer a application fee waiver and how to access it.</p>
<p>When using the college board, they ask about the number of fee waivers you are eligible for (based on your numbers from the previous year). They automatically tell you that you are eligible for # of test fee waivers and X*4 number of application fee waivers and tell you when you can expect to receive them.</p>
<p>It has been my experience that when speaking to many schools about fee waivers, the ACT fee waiver has not been mentioned. They mention the SAT, the NACAC, or say send us an e-mail explaining your student’s situation. They do not mention the ACT fee waiver (but maybe like the ACT, it is just slow to catch on).</p>