Holy Moly! Its going to cost me $700!!

Applying to College
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<p>I've been crunching the numbers, and its going to cost me (and my family) around $700 dollars to apply to 6 colleges. (FYI, I live overseas.)</p>

<p>Testing:
--SAT Reasoning (twice), plus international fee
--ACT
--3 SAT Subject Tests, plus international fee
--TOTAL: $235</p>

<p>Application Fees:
--6 colleges (fees range from $50 to $70)
TOTAL: $335</p>

<p>Postage
--DHL/UPS envelopes/postage
--TOTAL: $90</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
--Transcripts
--Envelopes/labels
--Etc.
--TOTAL: $20ish</p>

<p>TOTAL: around $700</p>

<p>Even if I weren't applying from overseas, this is an insanely expensive process!! Wonder what my parents will think... :(</p>

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<p>An unfortunate effect of the college admissions process, last year I had actually applied to 12 colleges, plus fees for SAT's, SAT II's, AP's, postage, reporting costs, etc. has me at around $1400, luckily my parents were so understanding and lucky for me I got a pretty sweet FA package or else they would have killed me.</p>

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<p>:(:(...don't colleges agree that their yearly cost is more than costly?</p>

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<p>don't know where exactly you live but most likely you forgot transportation expenses to and from the test centers ;)</p>

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<p>b@r!um: where I live, gas is about 25 cents a gallon. :P</p>

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<p>The application cost is what prevents kids from applying to several dozens of schools and wasting the ADCOMs time!</p>

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<p>Oh, and I forgot the $9.50/additional school for SAT scores and $8/school for the ACT. That's at least another $50. Woe is me!</p>

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<p>Don't forget to add in the CSS Profile...$5 registration plus $18 per school. ;)</p>

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<p>Ugh. I'm applying to 5 colleges, I think (I might add one or two more). SAT says only 4 schools for free, yes?</p>

<p>Lame.</p>