<p>LOL. yep. us cheap public school kids gotta fork out $86 per test. For me this year it was like $700. 
waste of money.</p>
<p>One discount/“scholarship” offered by my D’s school is that I only paid 1/2 (of the $86) because she’ll be first generation college.</p>
<p>I think it reimbursing you if you get over 3 is a much better system than paying for “the first 2 exams.” Like they give back $25 if you get 3, $50 if you get 4, and full price if you get 5. </p>
<p>One is like, you practically have no negative consequences if you flunk… </p>
<p>And I still don’t see why schools should separate between those who are in a course and those who aren’t. The only thing that matters is you end up with a good score… whether you self-studied or not.</p>
<p>yeah, i just have to pay it myself.</p>
<p>and there is no reason the school should be paying for a course they don’t even offer or have anything to do with… that makes no sense at all.</p>
<p>I’m actually surprised at how many people have to pay in full…I expected more “academic privileges” and stuff. o-o</p>
<p>My school doesn’t even give AP courses an extra weighting. There are practically no priviledges to taking an AP course (unless, of course, you’re a workaholic and you want more work for yourself =P).</p>
<p>But there’s not much of a reason why the school should pay for people taking the course either. If the whole point of this is to make a school look good, and to encourage students to obtain higher scores, then the school should pay for students with higher scores, regardless of whether the student is enrolled in the course or not. In fact, it’ll make the school look better if there are so many students self-studying for an AP exam plus get a high score. </p>
<p>To me, it makes no sense if the school is paying for kids in a course and not kids not in a course. Why should the school pay for kids in a course who get 1’s and not kids not in a course who get 5’s?</p>
<p>Yeah, living in a middle-class suburb in the country’s most indebted state (California), we pay the full $86 per test. Unless, of course, you’re on the low-income reduced-lunch list, in which case you have to pay $60…</p>
<p>We paid $100 for each AP exam.</p>