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Application Fee Waiver

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Application fee waiver requests are available for four groups of domestic applicants listed below. When completing the online application, please select pay by check. You should then submit the required documentation listed below. Your application will remain on file, unprocessed, pending receipt of the required documentation. Fee waiver requests must be received before the deadline for any application to be considered.

  1. Full-time permanent employees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who submit an application UNPAID and submit a UNC-CH Employee Application Fee Waiverpdf icon, approved by employee Benefits, to the Graduate School along with the online admission application confirmation receipt
  2. Current McNair Scholars applying for a graduate program to begin immediately following graduation – with no breaks in enrollment from undergraduate to graduate level (only written official verification signed by the current campus McNair Representative will be considered)
  3. U.S. citizens who meet the following need-based eligibility:
    • are currently enrolled in a degree program with no breaks in enrollment from point of entry at the undergraduate level
    • have continuously received need-based financial aid
    • have had no breaks in financial support since onset of support
  4. Participants in the Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience (SPGRE) or Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) applying for a graduate program to begin immediately following graduation with no breaks in enrollment from undergraduate to graduate level (only written official verification signed on letterhead by the current SPGRE or MURAP Director or Program Coordinator will be considered.)

We will be happy to consider your waiver request if you can satisfy these criteria and upon receipt of the required documentation. While participation in select scholarship programs or payment waivers granted by other sources do not automatically grant fee waiver eligibility at this campus, we welcome fee waiver requests from participants who meet the above need-based eligibility criteria. Please present a copy of these instructions to the financial aid office at all institutions that you attended. Request a letter on University letterhead with an original signature certifying the specific items listed above including both your enrollment history and financial aid history from point of entry at the undergraduate level. No other forms of documentation can be accepted (no form letters, photocopies, or financial aid transcripts, please.)

This is a fee waiver process and not a fee payment reimbursement process. Once the application fee is paid by either check or credit card, waiver or reimbursement is no longer an option.