Some advice on fee waivers for SAT and applications?

Test Preparation
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Hey all, HS senior here who just sent SAT scores to 8 colleges. Here’s the deal. I took subject tests as a sophomore and got fee waivers for them because my mom was single, making very little, and unemployed for a while. I just went to send my scores and noticed the cost was $0 for everything. I hit ‘place order’ thinking I’d be taken to a page for CC info and they just sent for free. Now I’m all for free stuff, it would have cost $90 to send them and my mom and I are really struggling to make ends meet as it is, but we are above the income bracket for fee waivers. In addition, I was taken to a page where I was presented with four application fee waivers. Again, all for free stuff, but at the moment I am not eligible for it. What should I do? This could really help us, as sending scores and applications was going to cost $600 that we don’t really have but is now looking well under $200, but I’m worried about being rejected if the schools I apply to think I’m trying to play the system.

Thanks for any advice.

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If your school serves lunch through the National School Lunch Program (basically every public high school with a cafeteria) you are eligible. Your hs guidance counselor is given a set number of waivers and made you eligible based on past years. You don’t need to meet all, just any on the list…

https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/sat/register/fees/fee-waivers

If you are still worried talk to the guidance office. But if the fees were a stretch for you and your mom, it sounds like they identified you correctly.

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Thanks, @BuckeyeMWDSG. You link says it clearly: Every student who uses an SAT fee waiver gets four college application fee waivers too. Guess I should have Googled a little better first. Whew, this is a relief.