<p>Awwwww okay</p>
<p>I’m getting fee waivers from all my schools. Yay for being financially needy.</p>
<p>My dad has told me that he’ll take care of all the financial forms. I looked at last year’s and I can’t answer any of those questions. I’m so in the dark when it comes to anything money-related :S</p>
<p>@Quasi-Are you sure that if your school says so, all the colleges will give app fee waiver? How does the whole thing work exactly. Please tell me coz that was the main reason I was thinking of limiting my list to 5 or so instead of 10. That too the 5 would be outta reach kinda schools, so…yeah I need fee waivers REALLY BAD!</p>
<p>^ That’s how past applicants that I know did it</p>
<p>financially needy ftw
@gary7: I approached the guidance counsellor and told him about the whole thing and he wrote application fee waivers for the universities. So, you need to ask your guidance counsellor/principal to write the fee waiver and then mail them the universities. But they will only write it if you really need it.</p>
<p>Yeah, its pretty obvious I need it. Besides, we have nothing such as ‘guidance counselors’. So the old princy will have to do it for me. She probably will, considering I’m the first person to apply to a US univ for undergrad in the past many years(I wonder if I’m the first?) and the school would want me to have the opportunity to apply to as many colls (and get accepted) as possible.</p>
<p>I recently spoke with an admissions officer from Duke Universtiy. She said that often when students apply with a fee waiver, they sometimes have to reject the student eventhough he is “brilliant to the power infinity minus one”. They feel that if the student cannont even afford $70 it is highly unlikely that he will be able to afford various hidden expenses that are not covered in FA (things like stationery, blankets, clothes, etc). She also said that giving loans to internationals is difficult because internationals often return to their home country and never repay the loan as they become virtually untraceable.</p>
<p>My advice- apply and pay the application fee. You could probably get in because when it comes down to you and someone else, they could choose you because paid the fee.</p>
<p>But its better to apply with a fee waiver than not apply at all 
But thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Can’t afford the app fees for all my schools, but thanks, bigcheese, I think I’ll pay for a few of my top choices (Will certainly pay for Amherst now that you’ve said that). I don’t really have a choice with applying for loans and fee waivers for most of my schools though - so I guess I’ll just have to take that risk. :(</p>
<p>^ I suggest you contact poster adrivit. He’s attending Duke on practically full financial aid, and would have much to say on the issue.</p>
<p>I heard soething similar abou fee-waivers. But of course, colleges will admit a student if they feel that the student is good.</p>
<p>That’s the best, simplest explanation of the process I’ve ever heard!</p>
<p>Will someone please recommend a book to read? (Non-classic).</p>
<p>If you’re interested in romance and supernatural then how about ‘Blood and Chocolate.’ I’ve just started reading the book.</p>
<p>What’s it about?</p>
<p>In short it’s about how a man falls in love with a werewolf but this ‘forbidden’ love threatens to reveal the identities of werewolves to the world.</p>
<p>^Isn’t that the same as twilight? Except, with vampires.</p>
<p>It does sound a tad like Twilight.</p>
<p>A while ago I read this book called The Somnabulist. It was pretty cool.</p>
<p>I think I saw Blood and Chocolate in the bookstore the other day. tetris, what’s your book about?</p>