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Waiver Eligibility</h2> <h3>Financial Need</h3> <p>Please refer to the <a href="https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/fee-waiver/" target="_blank">Berkeley Graduate Division fee waiver page</a> to request a financial need application fee waiver.</p> <h3>U.S. Military & Veterans</h3> <p>U.S. military service members (active duty, reserves, National Guard, and veterans) are eligible to receive an application fee waiver.</p> <p>Please be sure to request a waiver <em>before</em> submitting your application. We cannot issue fee waivers retroactively for applications that have already been paid for and submitted.</p> <p><a class="button" href="https://gradapp.berkeley.edu/register/?id=721ac0cc-5b96-4805-9522-1c4a9b68f9f4" target="_blank">Request Application Fee Waiver</a></p> <h3>Program Participation</h3> <p>Applicants who have participated in select programs are eligible to receive an application fee waiver from Berkeley Graduate Division or the School of Information.</p> <p><strong>IMPORTANT:</strong> Prior to checking the School of Information's eligible program participation list below, please refer to the <a href="https://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/fee-waiver/" target="_blank">Berkeley Graduate Division's program list</a>. If your program <em>is </em>listed on Berkeley Graduate Division's page, please follow their application fee waiver instructions. </p> <p>If you are a participant of a program <em>not</em> listed by Berkeley Graduate Division, see below for the School of Information's program list. Please be sure to request a waiver <em>before</em> submitting your application. We cannot issue fee waivers retroactively for applications that have already been paid for and submitted.</p> <p>If you are a participant of a program <em>not</em> included on either list, and whose mission explicitly aligns with our diversity mission, you may request a waiver by including program details in the appropriate section of the fee waiver request form.</p> <p><a class="button" href="https://gradapp.berkeley.edu/register/?id=721ac0cc-5b96-4805-9522-1c4a9b68f9f4" target="_blank">Request Application Fee Waiver</a></p> <h4>Program Participation</h4> <ul> <li>African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)</li> <li>American Political Science Association Minority Student Recruitment Program (APSA-MSRP)</li> <li>Annual Ivy Plus University of Puerto Rico Event</li> <li>Association Computing Machinery Women Council (ACM-W)</li> <li>Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC)</li> <li>Black Doctoral Network (BDN)</li> <li>Blacks in Cybersecurity (BIC)</li> <li>California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education</li> <li>Careers Opportunity Research/NIMH (COR/NIMH)</li> <li>Carleton College Summer Mathematics Program for Women Undergraduates</li> <li>CCMR NSF PREM</li> <li>CCMR Summer REU Program at Cornell</li> <li>Center for Bright Beams Summer Program (CBB)</li> <li>CLASSE Summer Research for Community College Students (SRCCS)</li> <li>CLASSE Summer REU Program at Cornell</li> <li>CNF/ NNIN REU Program at Cornell</li> <li>Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP)</li> <li>Columbia University Bridge to the PhD Program</li> <li>COMPASS</li> <li>Cornell Diversity Preview Weekend (DPW)</li> <li>Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source Summer REU Program</li> <li>Cornell Summer Math Institute (CSMI)</li> <li>Cornell Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact</li> <li>Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School</li> <li>CU Integrated Graduate Education, Research and Training (IGERT) Visitation</li> <li>Dr. John H. Hopps Jr. Defense Research Scholars Program</li> <li>Ecological Society of America Diversity Forum</li> <li>EDGE Program: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education</li> <li>ENGINE (engineering name exchange)</li> <li>Fisk-Vanderbilt Bridge Program</li> <li>FLIP (Diversifying Future Leadership in the Professoriate) Alliance</li> <li>Florida A&M Graduate Feeder Conference</li> <li>Food Science Summer Scholars Program at Cornell</li> <li>Grace Hopper Celebration</li> <li>International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP)</li> <li>I School Inclusion Institute (i3) scholars</li> <li>LASPAU</li> <li>MasterCard Foundation Scholarship</li> <li>Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI)</li> <li>Mathematics Summer REU Program at Cornell</li> <li>MBG Summer REU Program at Cornell</li> <li>Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship</li> <li>Mentoring, Educating, Networking, and Thematic Opportunities for Research in Engineering & Sciences (MENTORES)</li> <li>Microbial Friends and Foes REU</li> <li>Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences (MANRRS)</li> <li>National Astronomy Consortium (NAC)</li> <li>National Society for Blacks in Computing (NSBC)</li> <li>NeuroNex Technology Hub REU at Cornell</li> <li>New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, Summer Research Scholars Program</li> <li>NIH-NIGMS</li> <li>NSF CSGrad4US</li> <li>Out for Undergrad (O4U)</li> <li>Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM)</li> <li>Plant Genome Research Summer Internship at Cornell</li> <li>Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Material (PARADIM)</li> <li>Project 1000</li> <li>RBSI (Ralph Bunche Summer Institute) scholars</li> <li>Shoals Marine Lab in Maine</li> <li>Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)</li> <li>Society of Women Engineers (SWE)</li> <li>SoNIC Summer Workshop</li> <li>Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders 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