<p>Fill is the dollar amount for each</p>
<p>Sending Test Scores:</p>
<p>Paying for Tests:</p>
<p>Test Prep:</p>
<p>Application Fees:</p>
<p>CSS Profile:</p>
<p>Other (Visits, info sessions, etc):</p>
<p>Total:</p>
<p>This obviously varies by college. You may have no costs at open admission community colleges (unless you need test scores for placement purposes). If you apply to up to 23 California State Universities, the cost is $55 each plus one set of SAT or ACT scores for the whole CSU system, and only no-cost FAFSA for financial aid (Universities of California would be similar, but $70 each instead of $55 each). But some private schools may cost an application fee, SAT reasoning or ACT fee, SAT subject fee, CSS Profile fee, transcript fee if your high school charges or if you have taken college courses while in high school, and cost of visit if you need to show a high level of applicant’s interest.</p>
<p>@ucbalumnus. Honestly, I’m just interested in knowing what others are paying lol. </p>
<p>Too much. I resented having to pay CB so much especially considering I am anti-standardized tests in the first place. ;)</p>
<p>I’ll start it off.</p>
<p>Sending Test Scores: $123.75</p>
<p>Paying for Tests: $200</p>
<p>Test Prep: $300</p>
<p>Application Fees: $436.75</p>
<p>CSS Profile: $89</p>
<p>Other (Housing App): $20</p>
<p>Total: $1,169.50</p>
<p>X_X </p>
<p>Generally it costs about $80-100 to apply to any given school, with score reports, etc. However, some schools (like Stanford since you send all scores), can go upwards into the $150 range.</p>
<p>Calculating this was depressing.
Sending Test Scores: $280 </p>
<p>Paying for Tests: $240</p>
<p>Test Prep: none</p>
<p>Application Fees: $870.00 (yikes…I didn’t have any fee waivers, and McGill’s was a hundred dollars)</p>
<p>CSS Profile: none</p>
<p>Other (Housing App): none</p>
<p>Total: $1,390.00</p>
<p>Sending Score: $75
Tests: $150
Test Books: $150
Applications: $900</p>
<p>Total: $1275… </p>
<p>Sending Test Scores: $48 (used free score reports)</p>
<p>Paying for Tests: $107</p>
<p>Test Prep: don’t remember how much, probably under $350 (took an SAT class which came with 2 books)</p>
<p>Application Fees: $125 (only applying to 7 w/ several free apps)</p>
<p>CSS Profile: $41</p>
<p>Total: $321 (excluding test prep)</p>
<p>A ridiculous amount of money ($1472). Casting that net wide in hopes of merit aid cost a small fortune but I was lucky in that D’s bio Dad has agreed to split the costs. Funny, I had just put the figures together him so this was easy peasy.</p>
<p>We also did five visiting trips, all requiring at least one overnight: Western Mass for the 5 school consortium (and Trinity in CT), Maine for 3, Upstate NY for 3, Poughkeepsie, and 5 schools in PA (2 nights and airfare). An all-day in the Boston area and one trip to Vermont we never made but its still on the agenda depending on a positive outcome because her #1 safety and her #1 choice are both there. She also applied EDII to a school unseen and if she gets in she’s asked if we can take a birthday trip there in March. I know the trip to Western MA was about $500 and the trip to PA was about $1200 (but we did go to Amish Country for a day too for fun). Her Dad took her on two of the shorter trips and her Aunt took her to ME. If we get out of this college process for $5000 I’ll be happy. In the end, we’ll get that back in one years’ tuition if the Gods of Luck are on our side LOL.</p>
<p>Testing: $360 (and another $ 35? for the darn book lol)</p>
<p>Sending scores: $216</p>
<p>CSS Profile: $256</p>
<p>Applications (18, 7 free): $640</p>
<p>my mom spent like 700 on applications and score/transcript sending</p>
<p>Wow. This is going to be painful. </p>
<p>Sending Test Scores: ~$350</p>
<p>Paying for Tests: ~$175? (2 PSATs, 2 SATs, an ACT, and 6 subject tests)</p>
<p>Test Prep: Not sure what it is, but if I did, I’m pretty sure I’d be too ashamed to post it. We hired a private tutor, and based on his rate and the stream of kids through his door, he probably does better than the entire country of Tuvalu. </p>
<p>Application Fees: $960</p>
<p>CSS Profile: Not sure, haven’t submitted yet. Will probably be another $150 or so.</p>
<p>Other (Visits, info sessions, etc): *See test prep category. Did multinight visits in Boston and VA, and an overnight in CT. Essay consultant probably also falls under this category *</p>
<p>Total cost: $1485 that I’ll fess up to. I shudder to think what the real cost is. </p>
<p>I had twins applying last year. We visited 21 schools! They applied to 26 colleges total. Sat for the SAT’s and ACT multiple times. I am too afraid to tally. </p>
<p>Sending Test Scores: $108</p>
<p>Paying for Tests: $161.50</p>
<p>Test Prep: $100</p>
<p>Application Fees:$500</p>
<p>CSS Profile: n/a</p>
<p>Other (Visits, info sessions, etc): just gas money</p>
<p>Total: $769.50</p>
<p>Oh wow</p>
<p>Sending Test Scores: $0 (used reports included)</p>
<p>Paying for Tests: $0 (school grant/fee waiver paid for every test I’ve ever taken lol)</p>
<p>Test Prep: $0 (didn’t prep)</p>
<p>Application Fees: $0 (waived for being high stats)</p>
<p>CSS Profile: $0 (no CSS schools)</p>
<p>Other (Visits, info sessions, etc): $0 (visits to hs campus, road-trips with friends)</p>
<p>Total: $0</p>
<p>AP Exams: $400 (but $300 was returned. Scores sent for free.)
SAT and ACT: about $150, sending also free
Application fees: $210 total (one had a fee waiver, so it was for 3 schools).
Didn’t pay for anything else</p>
<p>Sent out 7 ACT test scores, paid for two ACT seatings, paid for 3 AP tests, will be paying for 2 more, paid for 4 application fees (3 fee waivers). Paid for enrollment and housing deposit, but that will come off the bill for September.</p>
<p>Where we incurred the costs were for the visits. Road trip 1 was $1500 because it involved flights, hotels and car rentals for far away schools. Road trip 2 was for $1000 because it involved one flight, hotels and a car rental. Another $1000 I would guess to visit the lot of other schools that we combined with other trips and local colleges over the last two years. Maybe another $500, that I’m not tracking over that period of time. It cost us $5K to check out schools because we went out of our geographic area. Spent at least that amount on each kid’s college searches and visits. More on one kid who had auditions as part of the app process. That was a college expense my generation did not usually incur. Never visited any of the schools to which I applied until I arrived to move into the dorms. </p>
<p>For my other kids, there was accepted student visiting day, orientation over the summer, yet to come with this student. We picked a school that requires a plane trip to get there, so that is going to be pricey. Not to mention the cost of transportation to get there when school starts, family day, Thanksgiving and Christmas trips home. If we do all of the things, one parent only going (DH did the initial pre app visit), it will come to $2700 in plane tickets alone in 2015 on top of Tuition, fees, room, board, books. Son expects to pay for his own discretionary expenses with savings and summer job. I expect to spend about $500 on supplies to get him started as well as another $500 for car rental, food, entertainment, hotel when parent visits the school at orientation, move in and family weekend. With some luck, friends might host us (have some in the area) which would cut down on some of those expenses. </p>
<p>Oh, the joy of being a junior on reduced lunch.</p>
<p>Honestly, I have not calculated it, nor do I want to. When you figure in all the visits, it is certainly in the many thousands of dollars. Which is absolutely insane.</p>
<p>Close to $1,400, not including test prep.
What the hell.
(And the worst part is that I’m essentially paying to be rejected hahahahaha)</p>