<p>I don't know anything about them. It just says ask your counselor. I know I qualify and my counselor will give me one, but my parents refuse to release financial information. I know I'm going to have to get a dependency override (I'm sort of confident I'll get one) but I don't know what needs to be done for the waivers.</p>
<p>You will need to take something to your counselor to prove your parent's income - a tax return from last year, a pay stub, an unemployment check stub, something. Information about the waivers is here: SAT</a> Fee Waivers</p>
<p>It might help if you explain to your parents how much they will save with the fee waivers. You receive: 2 sittings of the SAT, 2 sittings of the SAT II, 4 free additional score reports, and 4 free college application fee waivers. That can add up to hundreds of dollars saved.</p>
<p>We found the process very easy - basically just show the documentation to the counselor and she hands you cards for the waiver. </p>
<p>I wouldn't be confident you can get a dependency override, but your parents might not just understand how much releasing their information can help you. It was very hard for me to release it, too - it's embarassing! - but I'm glad I did.</p>
<p>If you're talking about the CSS, I didn't know until I submitted.</p>
<p>It automatically figures out if you qualify according to your information and you find out when you press submit.</p>
<p>Yay free money?</p>
<p>I believe he is talking about the college application fee waivers that come along with a College Board SAT Fee Waiver.</p>
<p>I have hardly ever heard of anyone who got a fee waiver on the CSS Profile.</p>
<p>I got a CSS Profile fee waiver. My dad has ridiculously low income.</p>
<p>Dependency overrides are VERY hard to get. If your parents are functional enough to refuse to release financial information, they may well be functional enough to be considered factors in your financial situation. Usually the only cases that eliminate them from consideration are if you are in foster care (their parental rights terminated), incarceration (theirs), or they are mentally incompetent, usually institutionalized. There are others who know these requirements better, but you may be better off getting a job/saving money,than counting on a dependency override. </p>
<p>I have also seen the CSS Profile fee waived--it happens in the online app. process. Mom with SS income of $7500 or so, yearly, dad deceased. LOW income.</p>
<p>I don't think you quite understand. They know how much it means to me and refuse to give out the information for the sole purpose of hurting me. I swear, I'm going to have to take a gap year just so I can live elsewhere for 6 months and use their FAFSA info.</p>
<p>Edit - Or go to a really crappy school on a great scholarship then transfer with the new info.</p>
<p>Most of these things don’t have to be exact, can you give a ballpark estimate and fill out the forms yourself? Just talk to your counselor about it.</p>
<p>Um… How low? My family is in seriously bad financial shape, and even if you got the waiver and I didn’t, the option for a CSS fee waiver still didn’t come up. I think that’s kind of dumb. We have to pay money we don’t have to tell colleges we don’t have money to pay them…</p>