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Please direct applicants to wait until their fee waiver request has been reviewed to pay their application fee. We ask that fee waiver requests are submitted at least one week before the application deadline to allow our office time to review all requests. For more information about fee waivers, see https://grad.ucsd.edu/admissions/requirements/application-fee-and-fee-waiver/index.html .
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Each department has a set number of waivers that are shared among all of their state-supported programs and another, separate set number of waivers that are shared among any self-supported programs they may have. To make it as clear as possible, we have written a separate line for each on our Fee Waiver Spreadsheet.
Beginning in Fall 2024 (with the opening of the Fall 2025 applications), the number of GEPA-provided fee waivers granted to each department will be based on the total number of applications that were submitted to that department during the previous admissions cycle. (You can verify how many applications were submitted to your department last year in the admissions dashboards on Tableau.) *Please note that in order to maintain an equitable and fair use of GEPA fee waiver funds, requests for additional GEPA supported fee waivers cannot be accommodated. If your department wishes to provide additional fee waivers to your applicants, you may opt-in to the Department Supported Fee Waiver Process.
Departments with under 500 applications submitted receive 5 fee waivers
Departments with 500 to 1000 applications submitted receive 10 fee waivers
Departments with over 1000 applications submitted receive 20 fee waivers
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