<p>excluding travel… around $1000 probably. holy cow</p>
<p>Phillydad, you are a good dad. Your daughter is a lucky young lady.</p>
<p>I’m able to use fee waivers.</p>
<p>so far…
i’m lucky enough to have fee waivers so $65 for one school, $6 for three transcripts, $30 for SAT score reports and I still have more to go.
$101 so far and still counting
and I have at least 2 more schools to apply to</p>
<p>Around $500. Which is money we really don’t have, but my parents are too proud to apply for fee waivers.</p>
<p>I just calculated: potentially up to $1020.</p>
<p>Too much.</p>
<p>Specifically, easily more than $1000.</p>
<p>when all is said and done i expect to have spent over 1000 dollars, but more likely something like 1300 or 1400 because of sending financial aid apps, sats, stamps to send all my stuff, app. fees, testing costs, and anything i may have forgotten. i can’t believe how expensive this all is.</p>
<p>To USNA: $16 for overnight shipping.</p>
<p>To USAFA: $0</p>
<p>To a bunch of other colleges: $1000 for two kids.</p>
<p>application fees $0
transcripts $0
ACT scores $27 (3 schools x $9/ea)
traveling $500
ACT prep $1000</p>
<p>$180; 3 UCs.</p>
<p>5 dollars for HS Transcripts, $30-40 for test scores (ACT or SAT) to 4 schools, $130ish for school app fees, $too much to take SAT twice, ACT twice, and Subject tests once, postage, and (within the next month) posting my art applications. AP tests are free to sign up for at my school but we’ll see how much all the other costs end up to be!</p>
<p>Wow… at least $200 so far! Sorry mom and dad for wanting to go to college…</p>
<p>Music performance major:</p>
<p>6 schools each at $100 per online application: $600</p>
<p>mailing of prescreening recordings and other materials (needed to use a trackable 6-day service which was much cheaper than the 2-day service): 6 schools X $40 = $240</p>
<p>accompanist fees for rehearsals and recording of prescreening recording: $300</p>
<p>audio and video recording and duplicating of 6 recordings (some DVD’s, some CD’s, each requiring different repertoire; two recording sessions; fortunately we managed to avoid rental fees for the recording spaces which were donated–a living room does not cut it acoustically and you cannot edit to add reverberation): $250</p>
<p>We live too far to have visited any of the schools (minimum 2 flights and 7 hours of flying)and so were unable to get any lessons at the schools which many performance majors do, but we did manage to get a free internet lesson, but had to travel a 600-mile round trip to get to a place with appropriate technology for an internet lesson (an ordinary high speed connection just doesn’t have either the audio or video quality necessary for a lesson): travel costs: 600 miles X 60 cents per mile = $360
plus I had to take a half day off of work to do the driving: $150</p>
<p>SAT: $71 (the regular US $45 plus a $26 international surcharge); fortunately we had stellar results the first time and I did all the tutoring</p>
<p>Total so far: $1971</p>
<p>We must travel to each school for an in-person audition (assuming we make it past the pre-screening stage). That will add about $7000 if we can manage to get our first choices for audition dates and minimize the number of flights required. No holidays for about four years (and all those northeastern conservatories are not known for their vacation weather during audition season, unless one finds snow a novelty which we most decidedly don’t:).</p>
<p>Let’s see
4 CSS Profiles @ 15 bucks/piece
5 ACT scores @ 9 bucks/piece
1 App fee of 40
1 App fee of 75
1 App fee of 60</p>
<p>So, like 280 bucks between 5 apps</p>
<p>Transcripts + 9 applications = $500 to $700…YUCK!</p>
<p>To those of you who can afford to spend $1000+ on this process, consider yourself lucky and privileged.</p>
<p>Child #1: less than $100 (admitted to 1st choice school ED)
Child #2: $700 (ten applications)
Child #3: ???</p>
<p>about 300 (it was my budget, and it went VERY fast) 4 schools=$160 then the SAT and ACT reports I needed to send out and then…it was gone!</p>
<p>about 500 applications and test scores sent
travel costs were about 800. More colleges should waive or reduce fees.</p>
<p>as an international student applying: just the SAT exam fees and application fees:
700~900ish. my poor parents, i do feel a ‘tad’ guilty. makes me wish to have aced SAT1 in first round. sigh.</p>