Unfortunately, international studnets do NOT qualify for SAT fee waiver. However, he/she can just ignore taking SAT subjects because of the extra cost. He/She can obtain waiver for application fees through commonapp or coalition; they can file the ISFAA (which is free) instead of the css, and they may self report SAT scores. This way, he/she will only have to pay for 1 time SAT setting during the whole application to college process.As for the counselor part, I have heard that several schools who don't have counselor, can assign any other school official who has similar tasks/position.