<p>My school handbook says, for each AP class, one has to pay $88 for the test by October or so. Why is this?</p>
<p>The people grading your free response don't work for free.</p>
<p>Material, shipping, coming up with the stuff, and well duh-for profit.</p>
<p>Depending on the state though its subsidized. '06 I paid $22 per test but after the MN governor wanted to set some high achievement standards, '07 was $8 per test.</p>
<p>damn, that is expensive. </p>
<p>:-(</p>
<p>collegeboard wants me to be poor.</p>
<p>Florida pays for my AP exams. =]</p>
<p>one of my teachers said the graders do it for free but im not sure if he knew what he was talking about</p>
<p>anyway i think they charge so much because they can</p>
<p>cos collegeboard enjoys nickeling and diming the **** out of desperate high school students.</p>
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for profit.
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Actually, CB is non profit. This is good for execs, who splurge all the money at the end of the fiscal year. This also allows the company to be tax-free.</p>
<p>Graders do it for free. You know the these scorers are just everyday teachers, who teach the class of that certain AP exam.</p>
<p>AD.BC: my teacher is a scorer and he doesn't get paid to grade these tests. Collegeboard just chooses qualified teachers and asks them to come to Chicago anywhere else. They gather with other graders and go through the process.</p>
<p>Maybe the plane ticket is paid by collegeboard?</p>
<p>Have you checked to see if your school will pay some or all of it? Some do....</p>
<p>At least in theory, it's paying for the costs involved. Not just the direct ones like the printing of the tests, but the indirect ones like CB employees.</p>
<p>My school charges $90 per test, so I guess it actually charges extra fees. lol</p>
<p>My school pays for me! =D (and everyone else's...)</p>
<p>Which is awesome 'cause I'm taking a bunch... the practice workbooks are expensive enough (20 bucks for each)</p>
<p>There are year long waiting lists to become a free response AP grader...I think it's very voluntary (my poor calculus teacher should know :(</p>
<p>doesnt the school take a lot of it?</p>
<p>My school doesn't pay for any. Of course, it offers no APs but it "strongly encourages" students to take AP tests anyway, for the full fee.</p>
<p>The reason is that CollegeBoard wants to make sure that only rich white kids can take the tests, just like with the SAT.</p>
<p>^ lol</p>
<p>I'm taking 7 next year at $83 for each :-(</p>
<p>add on prep books for each and I'm out $850</p>
<p>Really? </p>
<p>Do you think that's a valid reason?</p>
<p>I'm not trying to be sarcastic but I was just wondering because I had never heard that argument before:</p>
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<p>At least in my county, this "white" school that is about 20 miles from mine forces everyone to pay the full fee for each AP test. The houses around that neighborhood are well beyond 800K. </p>
<p>However, in my school, which is still in the same county, the houses are around 200-300K and the people make way less money. Not only that but my school is 67% black and 21% Hispanic= minority school. </p>
<p>Yet, the government pays for every single AP test fee for everyone in my school. Everyone who takes the class has to take the AP test and it's free. </p>
<p>We never payed anything for the PSAT either. </p>
<p>Unlike the kids from the "richer" schools within my county...</p>
<p>I thought it was something about the cost being lower per exam than in college, whose course cost was calculated by dividing tuition by credits. $83 is far less than at Cornell, where a Chemistry course (4 credits) is $3867 per semester given an 18-credit course load.</p>
<p>because CB are S L U T S
lol no srsly it costs money to print those tests, pay the people who take the time to make them, wrap them all up in pretty plastic, etc</p>
<p>Yeah... $83 (or whatever) is nothing compared to the cost at a university.</p>