Graduate Application Fee Waivers

1. Confirm you are eligible to fill out the FAFSA
2. Download and complete the Application Fee Waiver Form
3. Provide your current Student Aid Report (SAR) (available from the FAFSA website).
4. You must show an EFC of 0. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval. 

Completion of a fee waiver request form does not guarantee that your application fee will be waived. You will be notified via email when your request has been reviewed. If your request is not approved, you must pay the fee in order to submit your application. If approved, you will receive a fee waiver code by email from Admissions, and you should follow the instructions below.

1. Complete an application online at connect.pratt.edu/apply.
2. You will be prompted to enter your waiver code in lieu of payment at the time you submit the application in the “Checklist” section of the application menu.

A fee waiver is offered to Pratt students who have conferred, or will confer, a bachelor’s degree at Pratt and would like to apply to a graduate program.

Please fill out the waiver form, include your Pratt ID and undergraduate major, and your graduation year. After you submit your form it will be reviewed for approval.

Admissions will waive current faculty and staff application fees. Please fill out the Application Fee Waiver Form, and include your Pratt ID where requested. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval. 

Pratt’s graduate programs will waive the application fee for applicants who are currently participants in one of the programs listed below, or who have participated in one of the programs listed below for at least a year within the last two years. You must fill out an Application Fee Waiver Form and upload a letter from a program official documenting the dates of your participation. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval. 

Eligible programs include:

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
• AmeriCorps
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minorities Students (ABRCMS)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar
• Careers Opportunity Research/NIMH (COR/NIMH)
• Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP)
• Creating Connections Consortium (C3)
• Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
• Jackie Robinson Foundation
• Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program
• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Program (MMUF)
• Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC)
• Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (RISE)
• National Association of African American Honors Programs (NAAAHP)
• Peace Corps
• Questbridge
• Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
• Teach for America

If you have been offered a fee waiver after attending a recruitment event or through correspondence with a Pratt staff or faculty member, please complete an Application Fee Waiver Form and upload a document including the name of the representative, or the event along with the date of the event. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval. 

If you are applying to Pratt Institute through an outside fellowship organization, you may be eligible to have your application fee waived. You, or the organization officer submitting the application on your behalf, must fill out an Application Fee Waiver Form and upload a letter from an organization official documenting your receipt of their fellowship. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval. 

Eligible outside organizations include:

• Amid East
• DAAD – German American Exchange
• DAF – Danish American Fulbright Commission
• LPDP – Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency
• Fulbright
• IGERT – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
• LASPAU – Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas
• VEF – Vietnam Education Fund

Fee Waivers are also granted to applicants who have served in the US Military. Please fill out the Application Fee Waiver Form. Upload a scan of your military I.D. or other proof of service. After you submit your form, it will be reviewed for approval.