<p>No charge at son's parochial HS. I can understand charging a small fee for applications beyond a reasonable number. But $100 per application? Utterly outrageous.</p>
<p>My small public school charges a $1 processing fee for each application, but it's nothing big.</p>
<p>Wow... now I feel like we're really being ripped off. I will have to ask the school how they came up with that number. It's not going to hit us for another couple of years, but by that time they'll probably raise it even higher (inflation and all). I don't think it's going to discourage my D to apply to as many schools as she wants, since college choice is way too important to restrict oneself purely due to cost of applying. But with the money we are paying in tuition, equal to, or more, many college tuitions (and it's not a boarding school!), I guess I expected that college application process would be covered.</p>
<p>Our school doesn't charge anything. However, few people apply anywhere outside the state of Oklahoma.</p>
<p>The first 3 transcripts are free and then it's $2 or $3 after that I think. Our GC doesn't send them out. The kids go by the guidance office, pick up the sealed transcripts and send them off to the colleges themselves.</p>
<p>The first 2 at my school (with over 3000 people) are free. The rest are 2$ each. If your school also does the SAT/ACT sending, which my school offers, it may cost more. We also have to provide stamps/envelopes for our teacher recs etc.</p>
<p>Our private high school (3 college counselors for 250 students) imposes no charge for the first 6, then $50 each for any additional, PLUS they will not send out the excess applications until they have sent out all applications (again, up to 6) for all other students for which that counselor is responsible.</p>
<p>$1,000 per application at our public high school. </p>
<p>I figure it this way: $7,000 annually in property taxes for the school district, and he applied to 8 places, but one was the state college so that was easy for the school office to handle so that one was free. (just kidding)</p>
<p>Yes, at my son's public HS, I believe it is $6 per application. My daughter is only in 9th grade at a private school (high tuition) and I believe they charge more, but I am not certain.</p>
<p>We provide envelopes and stamps for teacher's recs. </p>
<p>The first 8 transcripts and guidance recs sent from the school are free, and then I think it's something like $10 each after that. </p>
<p>Guidance provides official transcripts to include with scholarship applications at no charge.</p>
<p>No charge, private HS. However, want it limited to 13 or less. Don't know what happens past 13.</p>
<p>P3T, my eyes popped for a second! Our high school does not charge for the first few (maybe four or five?), but we provide all of the stamped and pre-addressed envelopes. After that there is a $5 fee/school. I had no problem with that. Frankly, if they doubled or tripled the charge I would not have limited my son's applications, but I would have been annoyed.</p>