Hey all! First time applying this coming cycle. I have a quick question on fee waivers, to people who've gone through the process already. I am a low-income international student, and I've been heavily researching potential MFA programs, but most of them only give out fee waivers to domestic students. I figured I might just trim down my application list to 3-4 schools, as application fees are so expensive (UC schools, for example, are around 140$ each).
I want to ask people on here tho (especialy internationals) if they have experiences/tips on this, as I do still want to apply to as many programs as I can. I was reading on a grad school subreddit that applicants can often message/email the grad departments (or attend info sessions), where the grad department typically give out fee waivers even to international students. This was in an Masters of Science subreddit, though, and I'm not sure if the same thing is true in MFA programs.
