<p>I am an international student. I sent emails to a few colleges requesting for fee waivers. Some colleges do provide fee waivers for international students.
Harvard, Princeton and a few others accepted my request. Harvard said please go ahead and submit your application. We have put your request in processesing and will add a file to your application. Princeton just said "your fee will be waived."</p>
<p>Now, I don't know how to ACTUALLY apply the fee waiver. When I attempt to submit the app for these colleges, commonapp still asks me to pay the application fee. It does not let me submit without doing so.</p>
<p>As the colleges individually agreed to waive my app fee, my counselor doesn't need to upload fee waiver request to commonapp, right? I just put "No" to "Do you qualify for a fee waiver?" in commonapp as I do not qualify (all those options in commonapp appears to apply only to US-citizens)</p>
<p>How do I actually apply the fee waiver that I got?</p>
<p>Another question:
Just something I wonder about: Does the colleges stay "need-blind" if you apply for a fee-waiver?
Harvard clearly says that applying for fee-waiver does not impact admission decisions and Harvard has a different email id for admission and fee waiver. But few colleges have the admission email address as the fee waiver request email address. That means the adcoms will know whether you can pay or not. If $75 can have a slightest chance of me getting rejected then I'd rather give that $75 and skip a few days meals.</p>