<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm putting aside some of my savings to pay for the application fees I'll need when applying to colleges. I know I'll also have to pay for the SAT Subject Tests (I already entered for the Reasoning Test), but are there any other things I'll need to set aside some money for?</p>
<p>Thanks :).</p>
<p>application costs i guess: ranging from $30-$100 per college
but i asked for app fee waiver…the reason i got the waiver is that i am an international student.
dont u have a FEPRA waiver or something thats related to collegeboard?</p>
<p>I’m homeschooled, so although I come from a low-income family, I’m not sure whether I can request a fee waiver…</p>
<p>i am sorry thats not FEPRA, its NACAC…i dont know much about it but heres the link :
[College</a> Application Fee Waivers](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/guidance/applications/fee-waivers]College”>College Application Process – Counselors | College Board)</p>
<p>sorry cudnt be of much help</p>
<p>Thanks, that page was really useful; I’ve bookmarked it. (I am also international and live in the UK, btw).</p>
<p>Yes! You can request a fee waiver! I’m a homeschooled student (well… sort of).</p>
<p>Take your tax returns to the guidance office of the nearest high school. Explain your situation and explain that on collegeboard.com, this is listed as the procedure for homeschooled students. If you qualify, you will get a waiver for two free SAT Reasoning Tests, two free SAT Subject Test days (up to six tests), and four application fee waivers.</p>
<p>If you apply to schools that require the Profile for FA, you will have to pay for that – $9 plus $16 for each college.</p>
<p>^Yeah, the PROFILE fee is the only other one I can think of right now. The old “give us your money if you want any money for college” fees.</p>
<p>So, for each college, I need to pay the application fee, possibly the profile fee, and the fee for sending the SAT scores?</p>
<p>Yes…It’s quite a lot of money.</p>
<p>My parents spent around $400 for everything (ACT test, sending ACT scores, application fees, and having my school send my transcript).</p>
<p>It was $45 for taking the ACT, somewhere around $106 for sending the scores, $245 for application fees, and $11 for having my school send my transcript.</p>
<p>Granted, I did apply to 11 schools, but I only paid the application fee for half of them, so it could have been a lot more.</p>
<p>Make sure you check the how much the schools you’re applying to charge. Some of them are a lot more than others. (Some are free while some are near $100.) Obviously, if you’re only applying to three schools versus something like fourteen, that’s a huge difference, too.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re going to want to take any tests more than once, you may want to put aside some money for that, as well.</p>
<p>Make sure you check each school for their FA policy for internationals. No point in applying to schools that do not offer FA.</p>
<p>All in all, it adds up to alot, but it pales in comparison to what you’re gonna end up paying for your college education. </p>
<p>First, your SATs and ACTs. It costs, what, $40 per test, and most people take it more than once. And if you’re like me, you’ll want to wait until you see your scores before your send them. And those score reports cost $9.50 for each school. </p>
<p>Then the APs. Every year it’s been going up by $1 because College Board thinks that it doesn’t have enough cash on hand even though it realistically doesn’t cost $85 to create an AP test, mass produce it, then check it. Then, if you’re like me, you’ll want to wait to see the grades before you send them, and those score reports cost $16 per school. </p>
<p>Then there’s the CSS profile. It’s another $9.50 per school, and it’s run by the … (drumroll) … College Board! (There’s a shocker) </p>
<p>Then when you apply for college … application costs will vary for every school you apply to. If you have low income, your application fee may be waived. Also, your typical university (we’re talking the 3rd and 4th tiers) may not charge money for application fees just to have more applicants. Other than that, the flagship publics are around $30-$40 (Michigan State was $35 and UMich was $40), and top privates are above $60. </p>
<p>I also remember that some top privates (not the most prestigious ones like Stanford) may waive your application if you’re a Semifinalist. Rice offered to waive their application fee for me, as well as Northwestern. (Again why did I not apply to NU??? :mad:) </p>
<p>Anyways, applying for college costs A LOT … man, I really could have used that money to buy more Chipotle lunches. 
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<p>(EDIT: Actually, I just added up all the potential costs … I applied to 6 schools … 2 public and 4 top privates, and my fees added up to $1455. Or I did my math wrong. Either way, it was still a lot of money.)</p>
<p>I think college applications may cost around 35 dollars. Depends on university, and quantity.</p>
<p>^Yea. But keep in mind that some people on this thread want the top privates. For me, Stanford/Brown was $70-ish each … just to get rejected. </p>
<p>I tried to make use of my money by ordering two rejection letters from each of the schools. :D</p>
<p>heres a thing.
for my SAT scores, i photocopied the hard copy results, got them attested by my guidance counselor and sent them to colleges. this is because sending the scores through the collegeboard is expensive for me. and since u r an international too, you can do that too. but first ask the admission officer about this. i sent scores this way to 15 colleges. this is gonna save u a lot of money (theres SAT, SAT II, TOEFL and stuff)</p>
<p>I spent about 600 on mine. Possibly more. I regret not being confident enough about myself and ending up applying to schools called “reaches” with only 4 out of the 14 reaches not accepting me (waitlisted at HYP and Brown).</p>
<p>it cost me my sanity…</p>
<p>and on top of that i’m out about 800 bucks for 10 applications</p>
<p>When looking at all costs, app fees, test scores, etc, around $100 each. But it depends on the types of schools also. So if you budget the $100 each, you should be ok and it will likely cost some less, as you can tell from the other responses.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice - I’m not sure if I can skip the score report fees, but I’ll look into that. When the CollegeBoard site says that it charges $9.50 per score report for each extra college, does it mean $9.50 per SAT/SAT II, or $9.50 for sending all your scores to a college?</p>