I find it ridiculous that we have to pay $11.25 for the college board to send an email. On top of that they make you wait a week before they send the email. This is stupid and thousands of families pay it every year. If it’s an electronic submission it should be free, if they are mailing it then it should be the cost of shipping and paper. I am spending more on sending SAT scores than I did to take the darn test. /rant
Apply to fewer schools. The vast bulk of your college destined fellows apply to 1-2 schools max.
You didn’t even get to sending CSS profile info yet. More fun to come!
You have to spend $150 multiple times for the chance to spend tens (or hundreds) of thousands. A real bargain!
Same! Another layer to the obvious greed- it’s free to send four scores when it’s close to your test date, but after a couple days it suddenly costs money. If it was free to/ I already paid for 4 score reports when I registered, why do they cost $11.25 now??!
Or when you have to register for the next test before your previous scores come out- or wait and pay a $28 fee X(
Plus the CSS profile, as @intparent mentioned. There’s a fee to make an account then ANOTHER for each college that you send your information to.
Oh, the whole point is that you are paying for control. Want to see what you got before sending? It will cost you more.
The process of sending the CSS profile and SAT scores is automated and completely electronic. It should be FREE, or like $2 at the most.
What are you basing this notion on?
How much experience do you have costing out services?
Well, if you are in California, the public schools there do not use CSS Profile. You can send one SAT or ACT score report for all of the UCs, and one SAT or ACT score report for all of the CSUs.
@JustOneDad How much could it possibly cost college board to send what is essentially an email? It is all automated with an algorithm. Heck, it is a pretty simple algorithm I bet. You pull a students info from a database and send the email to the college said student selected after a couple of weeks in hope of the student rushing their scores. It is all bull. Their non-profit status should be revoked.
Normally I would say that services cost money, but considering they can’t even send the score reports without fudging the whole thing up and screwing over thousands of students…
And yes, CB, like almost all businesses, is greedy, mainly because they have very little real competition and students will continue to have to use them regardless of how much they mess up.
It is what it is, wait until you pay your first semester bill! The cost of everything college is ridiculous.
For a single fee, ALL the schools get your score. $11.25 is the cost of 3 grande Lattes at Starbucks. Get over it.
Lol the international prices are worse. This year they added a shipping fee of ($40). So the SATs cost $87 and SAT 2s(two of them) cost $97(+“registration fee”). While someone in the US pays $36. sighs
You don’t HAVE to do anything. They’re offering a service. You can choose whether or not to pay for that service.
The first 4 schools are included in the cost of taking the exam. Anything beyond that will cost extra… kind of like the cost of supersizing your meal at McDonalds.
Really? I’m sitting overseas right now, and the College Board’s website says $11.25.
A growing number of schools are test optional. You can choose to apply to those schools, and not deal with College Board at all.
It’s all about choices.
@GMTplus7 Thats for taking the SATs internationally not for sending scores to colleges.
@GMTplus7 Actually, I had to pay 11.25 for every school. I applied early to 2 schools this year so when I sent my scores I paid $22.50. (And I sent both score reports at the same time).
@Qwerty568
You are correct. It’s per school.