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Does anyone know ways to get around paying application fees (out-of-state)?
As someone who barley makes it out of qualifying for fee waivers financially and has many colleges to apply to, I'm worried about how quickly everything is adding up.
Please let me know any ways you can help, I'll be paying them all myself and don't want to go broke :)
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Unfortunately, if neither your school nor colleges (which you can email) offer you a fee waiver, you/your family will be responsible for covering any app fees. From what I remember, the average application fee is around $50-60 and the average number of schools people apply to is 8-10. You will likely spend at least $500 on application fees alone, so I see why you are concerned if your list of schools is even longer. I do remember some mid-tier schools (UTampa, Fordham, no-names) emailing me fee waivers but I'm not sure how common it is, I got no financial aid so it was either by academic achievement or random selection. There's a ranked list of schools with no app fee on Niche.com that you should check out.
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