How to Apply to US Universities for Free 🇺🇸 | Application Fee Waivers for International Students

Hey Everyone,
How can I get my application fee waived? What is the Common App Fee Waiver? How do I get a Common App fee waiver? Can international students use a Common App fee waiver? If these are some of the questions in your mind, do watch the complete video because today I will be sharing everything about the Common App Fee Waiver and School-Specific Fee Waivers that you can get to help you save thousands of dollars in application fee.
First, I answer of one of the most asked question which is related to application fee waivers for Canadian universities like the University of Toronto. Secondly, I talk about the application fee for US Universities and how applying to several schools can cost you hundreds of dollars. Third, I go over the university-specific fee which a lot of American universities offer. Then, I talk about the Common App Fee waiver, its eligibility criteria and how to apply for it as a domestic or international student (in between I also explain FERPA and whether to waive or not to waive it). I conclude by showing you the application fee waiver to apply at MIT which is not on the Common App.
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Fee Waiver for Foreign Universities
2:00 Application Fee
3:15 School-Specific Fee Waiver
4:38 Common App Fee Waiver
6:30 Eligibility Criteria
13:45 How to Apply
24:21 MIT Application Fee Waiver
26:28 Outro
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Thank you so so much for this informative video sir!!
26:14 One gentle request, please also upload a CSS profile fee waiver video soon as the deadline for submitting it (Early Application) is coming up: 15th November 😢
Or you can also share an article we can look up to know more about the topic.
Thank you in advance!
Also,
I watched till the end 😄

[@ZohairAnsari]

Thanks a lot !!
I will try my best to upload the CSS Profile Fee Waiver video, but as the deadline is close I hope this helps:
1. CSS Profile fee waivers are granted to domestic students only so international students cannot receive them (directly) from the College Board.
2. You need to email individual colleges you're applying to and tell them that paying the CSS profile fee will be a financial burden for you.
3. You need to ask them for the fee waiver. Three things will happen. 1. they will grant you the fee waiver. 2. they will ask you to fill ISFAA (International Student Financial Aid Application) which is a paper version of the CSS Profile 3. They will not give you the fee waiver.

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​@@ZohairAnsari Thank you sir, I will email the universities AO personally and hope for the best!

[@ZohairAnsari]

Uploaded the video on the CSS Profile Fee Waiver, do check it out here ua-cam.com/video/kDNJjvdMcKY/v-deo.html

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Before applying in any universities .we should apply for common aap fee waiver first ? And thanks for the vedio. Please answer

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Thankyouu for your precious time and hardwork..but u didn't show counselor uploading LOR or any academics documents which u mention earlier in video? i mean is it not necessary or from where they can upload it ?

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@@ZohairAnsari hi! I wanted to ask that do the counsellor need to be principal of my school in which I studies or they can be anyone like my tution teacher or any normal person that do not work in educational sector? Are Universities able to cross check it? Can my parents be my counsellor? Please help

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Hey Zohair
Are there any alternative application portals for master's students that offer application fee waivers?
Thanks

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Thank you for this video, I have a question. In my country we don’t have counselors, so who should I ask for the verification of the eligibility?

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Hello,
Should the counsellors and recommenders submit LOR’S every time we apply to a university or only once?

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Thanks, this was the most useful and informative video, I ever watched. I have a question, when should you apply/ask for fee waiver? (one month before the application deadline?) Also, Like I am applying regular decision on Jan 1 and when should my recommender send the fee waiver request also all the other documents and when he will hit the submit button, the documents will go to the colleges that are in 'my college list' but suppose on the moment if I changed some of the colleges what will happen? I am a bit confused at this.

[@ZohairAnsari]

If you change your colleges, it will automatically update on the recommender's common app, so there is nothing to worry about that.
Your recommender needs to complete and submit everything by the application deadline of the college.
You can ask for the fee wavier anytime and once your counselor approves it before the application deadline, you can submit your application to colleges for free.

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Hello sir
Thanks for providing us such a great opportunity . However i feel like to ask that in this video you have choose only one university that is princeton university. Can i choose more then one universities in this option? Plz kindly tell me.

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Applying is one thing and getting in is another

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