I’m not talking about the college admissions applications themselves. I’m wondering about all the support, SAT/ACT prep classes, professional college placement advisors, essay services etc.
We spent less than $200 on an ACT prep class offered through the HS.
<p>zero means 0 numerically... (lol, just meeting the 10 letters requirment</p>
<p>nobody in general is going to want to admit that they paid hundreds on those services just like nobody admits their ivy obsessed on other threads (when a few months before they had threads on chances at HYP)</p>
<p>I think I bought my son about $90 worth of prep books. I offered to hire a tutor, but he wanted to go the do-it-yourself route. Money that would have gone to a tutor went toward his car when the SAT numbers came in. Call it bribery, but he was accepted at his first choice. </p>
<p>Now, if you want to include the college visits, charitable donations to CB, AP tests and so on, I think we spent about 3K. Only visited one ivy, btw, and didn't apply.</p>
<p>10 bux on SAt II Chem book. (coupon got me half off)</p>
<p>i spent around $240 i think....</p>
<p>i had to spend money on stamps for all those rec letters... 2 per school... 20 schools... thats 30 teachers rec letters! .37X30 = $11.10 just on STAMPS!</p>
<p>oopse.. .i meant 40... so that should come out to be.. $14.80</p>
<p>let's see.</p>
<p>barron's prep book, 2c and writing: 14 each.
10 real SATs: 20 bucks.
AP Chem Book: 18 bucks (i used it for chem sat 2 review too)
Visited Michigan, WashU, and UNC by plane: 600 bucks total for me and my mom.
Three sessions with a private SAT tutor: 100 bucks per session
Total, about 1000 bucks.</p>
<p>Three books and one PSAT four-hour course = $150 (I buy used from Amazon.). Now the apps fees for 8 schools, Profile fees, IDOC fees, Priority Mailing so I could get delivery confirmation, trips to visit colleges, all that was way more. I don't even want to go there in my mind.</p>
<p>nothing..no books, no prep classes..i kind of regret that b/c i could've done a lot better on SAT's and SAT II's..but its alright. im happy with the colleges i got into :)</p>
<p>momofthree,
oops, forgot the Profile fees. Only had to pay for one application, though (wait listed, annoyingly enough).</p>
<p>anyone whos had to deal with Profile knows College Board/ETS is a not a non-profit</p>
<p>i spent $400 just on prep books. I own all prep books. AP, SATII, ACT, SAT. I have a shelf full of every AP and SATII (mostly barrons and PR..some kaplan and rea)</p>
<p>because my dad knows this one dude who sells books...so i really only spent like 50 bucks</p>
<p>wow... that's right! college is soooooooooo expensive
i had to spend 120ish just for profile! and i didnt even bother with the stupid safeties that i knew i wasnt going to attend. like i applied to a whollle bunch of free ones: smith, colgate, case western reserve, american university... and then they write me and tell me they want my OFFICIAL SAT scores, not hte ones from my counsellor... and i thought.. SCREW YOU! I'm NOT paying 14 bucks for ACT and SAT and 18 bucks for Profile for YOU if i didnt even have to give WASHU my OFFICIAL SAT scores... washu took my score from my transcript and accepted it. that's what a school SHOULD do</p>
<p>jeeez, including standardized tests, profile, fees for apps and fees for send "official" scores, i'd say i dished out well over 1500 dollars. maybe 1250. i'm too bumful to sit and count, but thats close. and at that hefty chunk or moola to the infinite amount of crap i had to purchase for senior year and senior trip and such, and i probably spent 5000 dollars. hmpf........</p>
<p>Hmm... probably about 400 bucks if you include the prep books for SAT and AP, plus the fees for AP exams and SATs. Then I spent another $145 on college applications.</p>
<p>reporting TOEFL scores is the biggest scam ever
its insanely expensive, completely useless and so irritating</p>