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If you are planning to use a fee waiver, you must complete the following process before submitting your applications.  Be sure to submit your fee-waiver application early.

To be eligible: 

• family contribution is $5,000 or less

To apply:

*visit financial aid and complete necessary form.  For their hours, check their website;

*know up to 10 programs that you are applying to;

*turn in the form while at financial aid;

*it takes about a week for financial aid to approve and process your request.  After a week, they will provide you with a letter to each school stating that you have been granted an application fee waiver.

Graduate Record Exam (GRE)

The GRE Program makes available a limited number of GRE fee waivers for college seniors and unenrolled college graduates who meet eligibility requirements. Fee waivers may be used for one General Test and/or one Subject Test.

To be eligible, you must be

1. a U.S. citizen or resident alien; and

2. a college senior receiving financial aid through an undergraduate college in the U.S., a U.S. territory, or Puerto Rico, or a returning unenrolled college graduate who has applied for financial aid; and either

3. a dependent college senior whose Institutional Student Information Report (ISIR) shows a parental contribution of not more than $1,200 for the senior year, or

a self-supporting college senior whose ISIR shows a contribution of not more than $1,600 for the senior year, or

an unenrolled college graduate whose ISIR indicates self-supporting status and a contribution of not more than $1,600.

To apply for a GRE fee waiver:

* Contact your financial aid office to see if you qualify.

* Once your eligibility is established, the financial aid office will issue you a fee waiver and a copy of your ISIR.

* You must register by mail using either the computer-based or paper-based registration materials.

* If you are registering for more than one test, all registration materials must be received together with the fee waiver and ISIR or your registration form will be returned to you unprocessed.

* Letter requests, photocopies, and faxes of fee waivers will not be accepted.

* Fee waivers are not retroactive and they cannot be replaced if lost or stolen.

Professional School Exams Fee Waivers

Fee Waiver for LSAT

Fee Waiver for MCAT