can you get an enrollment confirmation deposit waived?

[Guest Gnome Chomsky]

From a master's program at a public university

[LittleDarlings]

I think if you can probe financial hardship possibly, you would likely have to contact the grad school admissions office

[TakeruK]

One of the rules I learned about academia is that almost any rule can be bent. I agree with LittleDarlings--talk to the grad school admissions office and see what they can do!