Check fee waiver box on common app.
Ask your guidance counselor (or person who serves that role) to include test scores on the transcript and check ‘fee waiver: low income’ box.
Then, yes, applying is free for all common app colleges.
Same idea of Coalition App.
Obviously all 12 colleges you rank for questbridge are free to apply.
So, you’re only limited by how many quality essays you can write. (Don’t underestimate that challenge).
Start filling out Request info forms for all colleges you’re considering.
However universities with competitive or automatic full rides will expect you to at their application fee and these scholarships will be highly dependent on your test scores.
If you can afford to retake the SAT try to do so after practicing a lot, aiming for 1420- 1450. That would improve your odds.