Skyrocketing AP test fees

Applying to College
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<p>I didn’t realize that some schools paid for them.</p>

22

<p>AP tests have always been $86 in my area.</p>

23

<p>I think we pay about $89 at my school. You have to take the test or you lose AP status (and weighting). I’m taking 7 this year, I’ve taken 5, and my sister took about 7, so my parents have spent a ton on APs. They complain sometimes</p>

24

<p>^ That’s crazy. Is your school insanely competitive or what?</p>

25

<p>fee now is $91 here.</p>

26

<p>AP Tests cost $86/ test for my high school. However, every students only have to pay $40: the school pays the rest.</p>

<p>For free and reduced lunch people, the test is $5 each.</p>

27

<p>Wow, assuming that each test costs around $90, I just realized that I’m going to have to pay about $400 to take AP tests.</p>

28

<p>It’s 86 dollars at my school. </p>

<p>For free and reduced lunch, it’s only 2 dollars.</p>

29

<p>^^Wow…that’s a lot of money.</p>

<p>Rumor has it that my school district will no longer be paying for the AP exams starting next year (ugh and right before my junior year). I seriously doubt students in my district can actually pay for them (most people are struggling financially). </p>

<p>And I have this sudden urge to rant about how screwed up my district is. They spend thousands of dollars installing these useless SmartBoards that no teacher ever uses and they can’t even pay for AP textbooks or AP exams… sickens me.</p>

30

<p>Some of you are very fortunate. My DS’s does not subsidise AP test cost in any way, taking the test is mandatory or else you fail the class, and there is NO weighting of grades for GPA. An “A” in an AP course is the same as an a in a standard course when calculating GPA for class rank.</p>

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<p>Yeah, my old school, too. They spent $400,000 on finger print readers for… get this… the lunch line! WHY?</p>