Admissions - Application Fee Waivers

Waivers Based on Program Participation:
If you have participated in one of the programs below within the last two years, you are eligible for an application fee waiver.

• AmeriCorps
• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minorities Students (ABRCMS)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar
• Careers Opportunity Research/NIMH (COR/NIHM)
• Currently serving in the U.S. Military
• Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
• Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program
• Ronald McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
• Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows Program
• Minority Access Research Careers (MARC)
• Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (RISE)
• National Association of African American Honors Programs (NAAAHP)
• National College Advising Corps (NCAC)
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Peace Corps
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
• WFU Graduate School Summer Research Participants (SROP, EICS, TSI, WFIRM)
• Teach for America

Contact your program director/coordinator to request a letter verifying your participation in the program and the dates of your participation. The letter should arrive in our office in a sealed envelope and initialed on the back flap by the authorizing official.

Waivers Based on Financial Need:
We also offer waivers to applicants currently enrolled in a degree program if they are able to demonstrate financial need (recipient of Federal Pell Grants, NC Education Lottery Scholarship, or Subsidized Stafford Loan).  You may contact your financial aid officer or the university registrar to request a letter verifying your financial need. The letter should arrive in our office in a sealed institutional envelope and initialed on the back flap by the authorizing official.

International Applicants:
International applicants are not eligible for application fee waivers.

Mailing Information:
The above documentation should be mailed to the appropriate Graduate School Office based on the program to which you are making application.

Programs of Study and Areas of Interest:

Bowman Gray Campus      Biochemistry and Molecular Biology    Cancer Biology   Clinical & Population Translational Sciences Microbiology and Immunology           Molecular Pathology   Molecular Genetics and Genomics    Molecular Medicine & Translational Sciences Neurobiology and Anatomy      Neuroscience   Physiology and Pharmacology

Reynolda Campus Bioethics Biology Chemistry Communication Computer Science Counseling Education English Health and Exercise Science Liberal Studies Mathematics Physics Psychology Religion

Mailing Addresses:

Bowman Gray Campus Dean of the Graduate School Wake Forest University Biomedical Sciences   Bowman Gray Campus  Medical Center Boulevard   Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1001 bggrad@wfubmc.edu  p .800.438.4723  p 1.336.716.4224  f  1.336.716.0185

Reynolda Campus Dean of the Graduate School  Wake Forest University 1834 Wake Forest Road Room 6, Reynolda Hall PO Box 7487 Reynolda Station  Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7487 gradschl@wfu.edu p 1.800.257.3166 p 1.336.758.5301 f  1.366.758.4230