{"id":376841,"date":"2026-10-19T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376841\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:32:19","slug":"free-college-application-initiative-a-chance-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376841\/","title":{"rendered":"Free college application initiative a chance to save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school students can apply to colleges across New York the next couple of weeks for free.<\/p>\n<p>During this free college application period, students can apply to up to five SUNY schools free of charge and apply to an unlimited number of CUNY schools for free. Forty-six private colleges and universities are also part of this cost-savings initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s a very big reason that a lot of students will apply to so many SUNY schools at this point. Application costs are very expensive. They add up quickly. It is a big chunk of money, so having the opportunity to apply to five SUNY schools is wonderful. It makes the difference for some families,\u201d said Jennifer Quinn, a college and career counselor at Albany High School.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hesc.ny.gov\/plan-college\/college-application-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York State Higher Education Services Corporation<\/a> says that the average college application fee typically costs anywhere from $50 to $90 per application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re not alone in this. There is a lot of support and a lot of people out there to help you. New York State Higher Education is a great resource. We have a number of resources right on our website that are available and we also host a number of events. We provide one-on-one support. Your guidance counselors can support you through this process as well. And SUNY, CUNY and private institutions have a lot of support as well. So you&#8217;re not in this alone so if you need help, there are a lot of resources,\u201d said Angela Liotta, VP of communications with the NYS Higher Education Services Corp.<\/p>\n<p>HESC says in 2025, colleges around the state processed 300,000 free applications, amounting to $15 million in waived application fees.<\/p>\n<p>The free application period for SUNY schools continues until Nov. 2. The CUNY deadline wraps up Nov. 16. Application waiver deadlines vary for participating private college and universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High school students can apply to colleges across New York the next couple of weeks for free. During&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,115,200,80837],"class_list":["post-376841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-rochester","tag-vod","tag-wendy-mills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}