<p>If you really don’t want to deal with the college board, then don’t. Take the ACT, and go to colleges that do not require the CSS Profile. Don’t take any AP tests. Tada.</p>
<p>I was pretty sore with CB for all of the fees as well, but going to college in the States was my own choice, and I knew the fees were coming… </p>
<p>What I can’t understand, though, is why don’t colleges make their own financial aid applications (Bates and Hamilton and Harvard have them, at least from the schools I applied to), and then complete the Profile if you get admitted? The same goes for score reports.<br>
It kindof stings when you have to pay the fee for a bunch of schools that you’ll probably not going to get admitted to…</p>
<p>alis…those schools want to give your a financial aid package WITH your acceptance…so you can decide if you want to attend and make that decision by May 1. Since acceptances don’t come until April, it would be very hard to get this all done in a timely fashion.</p>
<p>PLUS would you REALLY want to do a bunch of different financial aid application forms?</p>
<p>Truthfully…there are only about 300 colleges that use the Profile. If it’s really that huge a problem, then don’t apply there.</p>
<p>I guess I understand that. But what about test scores? It would be easier if they took faxed copies of scores, and then send the official report to the colleges that accepted you. And if it turns out you lied about the score, they could revoke their decision…</p>
<p>^^ one summer program my D applied to allowed her to scan and attach her report card with the understanding that if that was not confirmed officially after she was accepted, she wasn’t accepted. Seems like that would make sense for test scores.</p>
<p>That would just delay the cost. Colleges ask for official scores because self reported scores aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.</p>
<p>Well if a college doesn’t accept you based on the unofficial scores, then you don’t have to pay to send the official scores. So it does save money, assuming you are rejected by some of your colleges.</p>