<p>The title.</p>
<p>If you don't use fee waivers, do they automatically assume that you AREN'T low income?</p>
<p>How much do fee waivers actually help?</p>
<p>In order to obtain a college board or NACAC fee waiver you must meet income eligiblity guidelines or be eligible under the federal free lunch program.</p>
<p>Some schools offer fee waivers to any and everyone -for example schools that waive the fee if you apply on line.</p>
<p>Fee waivers help in the fact that they can save you 40-75 in application fees, which over the course of applying to a few schools can add up. FOr schools actively seeking low income students it is hard to miss the big college board fee waiver printed on colored paper.</p>
<p>Wait…</p>
<p>so because I didn’t use a fee waiver, even though I’m low income, I won’t get the advantage?</p>
<p>“not low income” is quite different from “high income.”</p>
<p>It’s obviously true that if they DON’T see a fee waiver, they WON’T assume you’re LOW income.</p>
<p>Wait…</p>
<p>so how will they know, then?</p>
<p>you let them know through other means. if you apply for financial aid, the school will certainly ask for your family’s financial information.</p>
<p>But what if they are need-blind?</p>
<p>Why didn’t you use a fee waiver if you’re low income? No reason to spend money on apps if you don’t need to.</p>
<p>If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident if a college is need blind (this is in the admissions process) it means your needing FA, whether it is $1 or the full cost of attendance will not be a factor in making an admissions decision.</p>
<p>However, keep in mind that need blind (admissions) and meeting 100% demonstrated need (financial aid) are 2 different things.</p>
<p>the schools that are both need blind and meet 100% demonstrated need with large amounts of grant aid, no loans, of low income initiatives are amongst the most competitive when it comes to getting admitted.</p>
<p>sometimes it is hard to get those fee waivers.. at my school, i tried getting a fee waiver because i know i am low income. however, they said that i couldnt get one if i were just using it for college apps.. they said that if i were using it for sats, then they would give it to me.. but i already finished all the sats.. so.. yeah.. it might have been their policy, but i think that it is pretty pointless because low income kids cant get fee waivers..so i ended up paying hundreds for college apps.</p>
<p>Some schools waive or reduce admission fees for applications submitted online–reduces paper at their end.</p>
<p>This occurs at some pretty prestigious schools–I think Colby is one, for example.</p>
<p>Wait..</p>
<p>so how will need-blind schools find out that I am low-income if I didn’t use a fee waiver?</p>
<p>Why are you concerned with having colleges know you are low-income?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you still apply for financial aid regardless of the school being need blind? Need blind simply means that you applying for financial aid will not affect your admissions chances.</p>
<p>I’m low-ish income and we still paid… some weird things happened with getting fee-waivers. They get your fin-aid information… they’ll look at that instead of just guessing from whether you paid the fee or not.</p>
<p>Need blind schools do not consider finaid when deciding if you get in or not. In fact, in some schools, being low-income can benefit you.</p>
<p>If a school is NOT need blind, then being low-income might hurt your chances, but you can’t avoid that whether you pay the fee or not. They’ll get your FAFSA or CSS Profile and they’ll know.</p>
<p>“sometimes it is hard to get those fee waivers.. at my school, i tried getting a fee waiver because i know i am low income. however, they said that i couldnt get one if i were just using it for college apps.. they said that if i were using it for sats, then they would give it to me.. but i already finished all the sats.. so.. yeah.. it might have been their policy, but i think that it is pretty pointless because low income kids cant get fee waivers..so i ended up paying hundreds for college apps.”</p>
<p>How does that work? That’s weird. At my school, I got fee waivers for both SAT and college apps. Your school should not have prevented you from getting college app waivers if you qualified to get SAT fee waivers. Supposedly, you are only to get 4 waivers for private schools from Collegeboard, but I had my counselor write letters for the rest of the schools (I applied to 8 private schools).</p>
<p>Hey guys, i have a problem. I used Other Fee Waivers for every school. But i didn’t send them letter from counselor(i didn’t know that), but, it is obvious in my Financial Aid form and Name of my country. What should i do? Also i received some emails from school about “Receiving Application Confirmations”. Does it mean : they already accepted my application?</p>