Application Processing Fee

This page describes details about the UCSF Application Processing Fee, as described in Admissions Step 2: The Application.

Note: In previous years, UCSF used a two-part application process: (1) the PharmCAS application; and (2) the UCSF Supplemental Application. We no longer require a separate UCSF Supplemental Application. Instead, UCSF-specific essays appear in the PharmCAS application when an applicant designates UCSF as a school to which they intend to apply. We do still require a UCSF Application Processing Fee. To learn more about this change, see A Major Shift, Supplementally Speaking.

How to submit the fee

Submit your UCSF Application Processing Fee.

About the fee

To determine what’s required for your Application Processing fee, select the scenario that applies to you:

Who are you?

United States citizens or permanent residents not applying for a fee waiver

United States citizens or permanent residents applying for a fee waiver

International applicants
  1. I am not an international applicant, and
  2. I am not applying for a fee waiver. (See About the Fee Waiver below.)
  1. I am not an international applicant, and
  2. I am applying for a fee waiver. (See About the Fee Waiver below.) Fee waiver request must be received by November 15.

I'm an international applicant.

What do you need?

United States citizens or permanent residents not applying for a fee waiver

United States citizens or permanent residents applying for a fee waiver

International applicants

A credit card for a non-refundable, online payment of US$80.00. We accept MasterCard and VISA.

Apply for a fee waiver using the Request for Fee Waiver form, available by contacting our office. Fee waiver request must be received by November 15.

If your fee waiver application is granted: Our office will notify you and provide instructions.

If your fee waiver application is not granted: Our office will notify you. You need a credit card for a non-refundable, online payment of US$80.00. We accept MasterCard and VISA.

A credit card for a non-refundable, online payment of US$100.00. We accept MasterCard and VISA.

When and how do I pay?

United States citizens or permanent residents not applying for a fee waiver

United States citizens or permanent residents applying for a fee waiver

International applicants

At any time before the application deadline, submit your payment using the link above.

If your fee waiver application is not granted, at any time before the application deadline, submit your payment using the link above.

At any time before the application deadline, submit your payment using the link above.

Applications that do not meet the requirements above will be canceled after December 1, 2023.

About the fee waiver

Applicants who are United States citizens or permanent residents and from low-income backgrounds may apply to have the UCSF Application Processing Fee waived. Fee waiver request must be received by November 15. To request a fee waiver application, contact us at [email protected]. If granted, this fee waiver applies only to the UCSF Application Processing Fee of US$80.00. Fee waiver forms from other UCSF schools and other colleges and universities may not be used in place of the UCSF School of Pharmacy fee waiver form.

Go to: Admissions Step 2: The Application or Admissions Step 3: Interview Process

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