<p>Can someone tell me what the price is of sending css profiles to schools? I seem to recall that it was $25 to register and $9 / college that you send thereafter. But what I am seeing is $16 for each college after that first one. I probably misunderstood, correct ? - mixing up 16 and 9?</p>
<p>I think the $9 is for sending SAT scores.</p>
<p>I found that it is indeed $25/$16 thereafter. </p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/PROFILE_fees.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/PROFILE_fees.pdf</a></p>
<p>The fee waiver that is mentioned in that link is a joke. our family of 5, two in college , making fed poverty level , did not recv a waiver from css. In other threads , it was said to just ask the schools for the waiver codes; all the schools we asked said they have no css waiver codes. what is a joke is people at federal poverty paying $16 for each college that we probably will not even get accepted just to tell the colleges you are broke.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just me, but I think its really stupid and really ironic that you have to pay money to the College Board in order to get financial aid. I realize there’s fee waivers, but still…</p>
<p>roderick - my understanding is that at a certain income level - the CSS Profile will automatically give you the fee waiver - you don’t have to do anything additional or get any type of code. I do not, however, know what that threshold is. And yes - College Board is a money making machine. The cost to send the Profile to a few schools - the cost to send score reports, etc. it adds up. If you are low income you can get fee waiver codes from your hs for both the ACT and the SAT. But these cannot be used for late registration or walk in testing - only if you register well in advance. You can send a few score reports for free - I think it is 4. Beyond that - you have to pay for each one. Applying to colleges is not cheap!</p>