What's The Limit Using A Fee Waiver?

Paying for College
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<p>If a student is using a fee waiver for his college apps, what’s the limit to the number of schools he can apply to ? I mean, if the application costs are totally covered, can he just apply to 15 diff. schools, or is there a limit before you have to pay out of pocket ?</p>

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<p>no limit provided each colleg accepts it. however, UCs will only waiver 4 apps.</p>

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<p>so a college has to accept the fee waiver? and if someone doesn’t have money for the 65 (for example) dollar fee, and that college doesn’t accept the fee waiver, then what ?</p>

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<p>then you apply to schools that have free applications
Seriously, if $65 is a problem, even if you are on Pell grants- college is going to be a big expense, that will make $65 look like lunch money.
<a href=“http://www.commonapp.org/[/url]”>http://www.commonapp.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>lol. ok, emerald, I guess i was exaggerating about the cost.</p>

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<p>Because there is a limited number of fee waivers, it means that every application is important, and you should carefully research your schools, see if they are good fits, and operate from the mind set of if this is the only school I am admitted to will I be happy to attend.</p>

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<p>The college does not have to accept the fee waiver – but most do. If they don’t accept it,they will notify you and you will either have to pay the application fee, or else your application will not be accepted. </p>

<p>There is no set limit on the number of fee waivers that can be issued using the NACAC form - <a href=“http://www.nacac.com/feewaiver.html[/url]”>http://www.nacac.com/feewaiver.html&lt;/a&gt; – but they have to be signed by the guidance counselor, so it is possible that your school counselor may place limits on it. Apparently there are also College Board forms for fee waivers, and there is a limit of either 4 or 6 of those.</p>

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<p>I used 9 fee waivers when I applied. Neither UC’s nor Stanford granted me fee waivers.</p>

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<p>ecnerwalc3321, those darn stingy UCs didn’t accept your few waivers ?!! what a bunch of crap, half the families with children living in california don’t have enough money to even pay the bills. OK guys, enough with my ranting. So I guess a college can be pretty snobby and picky when it chooses to accept a poor kid’s student waiver ??!!! what if that person’s on welfare or their parents are unemployed or single-parent household ?</p>

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<p>The UC’s do not accept the NACAC fee waivers – apparently you have to use College Board waivers; the CB limits the total number of waivers (I think to 4 or 6) and income standards are more stringent than with NACAC. See:
<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/apply/how_apply/apply_fees.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/apply/how_apply/apply_fees.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;