<p>Counting all SAT I/IIs, ACTs, sending scores, AP tests, applications, other expenses...?</p>
<p>About $370 just for being able to mail all the stuff (DHL).
Approx. $180 for transcript orders for HS and Uni.
Sending the SAT + TOEFL. ehgahd. I think TOEFL up to now is $60. SATs for about 10 colleges.. I don't even know. Not even counting signing up for the damn things in the first place.
meh.. and application fees for all the colleges. About $600.</p>
<p>Oh, and 60% of all this is paid for by me and not my parents. I work and have to spend about 90% of my paycheck on this crap. Oh, and the 10% I use for everything else I need. Basically, my parents are just giving me a bed and a roof over my head. oh, and yucky food. okay, and a driver, etc. w00t. </p>
<p>bleh.</p>
<p>SAT I/II: $66
AP Tests: $166
Applications: $210
College Visits: a lot
Total: an arm and a leg</p>
<p>sat prep courses are too $ for me. i will just get what i get. </p>
<p>AP looks to murder me. $240 last year, like $420 this year..., </p>
<p>i will retake SAT, but ACT was good. </p>
<p>i am thinking like 10 apps. almost all are 60-70. </p>
<p>and of course, my mother only wants me to apply to the state schools that have already offered my $$$$$$$. </p>
<p>yeah, i will have to give out some serious $$$$$$$$.</p>
<p>Will be:
SAT course: $85
Prep books: $150
SAT's: $150
AP's: $540 (non-profit, yeah right)
Applications + sending AP/SAT scores: $500
Total: enough to buy more than one PlayStation 3 at the cost of "$599 US dollars!"
Just those figures make me want to go get a fee waiver...</p>
<p>"okay, and a driver, etc. w00t. "</p>
<p>oh, you kuwaitis! ...haha</p>
<p>SAT: $50 each
AP Tests: $82 each
SAT Course: $900
Application Fees: $60 each</p>
<p>Getting rejected from every college that you apply to: priceless</p>
<p>You know, you can waive the AP fees.</p>
<p>SAT I - $83.00 (twice)
ACT - $72.00 (once with writing, once without)
AP tests - FREE (county paid for them)
application feee - $45.00 (applied to one school!)</p>
<p>Total : $200.00
Going to the school of my dreams...PRICELESS!</p>
<p>Yes, us Kuwaitis. :P psht.</p>
<p>Parent here. I must inject some levity here before I panic at the costs! So if we eat box M&C from now on, every day until admission, we can save up the costs of all that for two kids app expenses LOL. Oh heck, they'll be living off ramen noodles anyway later on, ramen while they pay back college loans, ramen when they finish college loans and have kids, paying for baby equipment and formula, strained ramen??</p>
<p>(1) $10 to send official transcripts per school: $140
(2) 4 stamps ($1.48) per big envelope plus SASP for transcripts per school: $20.72
(3) 3 stamps ($1.11) per teacher rec envelope plus SASP for teacher recs per school: $15.54
(4) $9 per school for SAT Score Reports: $126
(5) Approximately $50 application fee per school: $700</p>
<p>TOTAL: $1002.26</p>
<p>Not including Princeton Review prep course ($1000), years of educational summer programs ($10,000+), AP Tests ($120), SAT tests ($100+)...</p>
<p>It ain't cheap.</p>
<p>Estimates:
SAT--$70
SAT II - $100
ACT - $40
Sending score reports - $100
Stamps for teacher recs - $5
Application fees - $200
College visits - $500+ (hotel for 2 nights in CA, rental car, gas for other visits)
APs - $164 (only counting junior year because senior ones had no impact on admission)</p>
<p>So in total, about $1000, probably more. Definitely worth it, since now college is free. And even though I didn't end up going to school in California, that trip with my dad was great.</p>
<p>People are forgetting to add in the cost of sending the Collegeboard CSS PROFILE... It's close to $20/school. </p>
<p>I chose not to sit down and add up all of my expenses, but after application fees (which can be upwards of $70), sending all my supplemental information and financial information through Priority Mail, visiting the colleges, buying t-shirts at all the colleges I visited, sending SAT scores, taking AP tests... I would imagine it's well over a thousand dollars. </p>
<p>The application fees probably hurt the worse. I would definitely recommend seeing what schools waive application fees if you apply online! Wellesley, Colby, and Colgate are a few that I can think of. </p>
<p>Ironically, after spending a LOT on application fees, Wellesley and Colby were the only two schools I seriously considered once the decions were out. They were the only two I didn't pay for!</p>
<p>The only two you didn't pay for? Go figure. </p>
<p>I think the years at private school counts.. since it's all just college prep.</p>
<p>Ok, add in about $60 for my financial aid forms, and about $45,000 in high school tution...and my parents around $46,000 to get my butt into college, if you want to look at it that way. I don't.</p>