<p>There's fee waivers if you are low income</p>
<p>I use them for SAT, AP, and college apps </p>
<p>However they are only for people that really can't afford them</p>
<p>Arkansas pays for AP tests. </p>
<p>Good thing, because that would have been two tests for physics C and two tests for government.</p>
<p>I will still have to pay for BC (sigh) b/c i'm not in the actual AP class (took ap ab last year, multivariable this year). Luckily AP is not doing the "split" thing here.</p>
<p>This sucks. 5 AP tests. And we actually have to pay for ours, the school doesn't help one tiny bit. Blah.</p>
<p>Non-Profit or Not for profit... whatever they want to say they are, I don't believe it. They arent doing us a greater service, I believe the test scores will take the same amount of time to come out and they sure as HeII aren't going to post them online, only through mail, so by the time you're in the middle of summer you'll get your grades. If they are going to raise prices and make people pay for seperate tests, they need to provide us with better services, none of this CRAP</p>
<p>I'm sick and tired of collegeboard pushing around kids with their propaganda.</p>
<p>Enough is ENOUGH, I can't wait until i'm in college and i'm independent from that monoply.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Gre? </p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>If you are really frustrated and have a legitimate complaint, just sue them. Our ability to take the SAT exams more than once is a result of a lawsuit settlement.</p>
<p>Sometimes I am so glad that our school offers AP tests for free.</p>
<p>i think collegeboard should just come out with a new test that is given to seniors once per year near december/january. sure you'll only have one chance to take it, but the thing is, it will test material on which you've covered already. so for math, it'd test on things from algebra I to calculus, social studies from economics to european history (although some schools, like mine, doesn't teach the latter) and so on, to make it a much fairer, much more realistic test on what you've learned and stuff. but that's just my opinion. and if you guys don't like it, that's fine with me :p</p>
<p>CsE that wouldn't work for my school, because we're not on block schedule, so we don't finish the cirruculums till May/June
this does suck, not everyone is made of money
maybe they might relent if enough people picketed outside their "mansion" lol</p>
<p>hmmm....you're right....that does pose a problem...guess i didn't think this ALL the way through....either way though, collegeboard sucks...only good thing i can see that comes from it is that if you do well on the ap exams, you're exempt from taking the course in college (for most colleges anyways)...picketing outside their "mansion" might work though :)</p>
<p>I wouldn't be suprised if next year they make you pay twice to take Calc BC. (<em>rolls eyes</em>)</p>
<p>"Busdrivin4life, what you said is not true, because College Board is a non-profitable organization. They probably raised the prices to have more readers or get new equipment for the scantrons. You never know the motivate behind what they do, so there is no need to jump to conclusions."</p>
<p>Our school talked about this with us last year. College Board is nonprofit but ETS is not non profit. So the money apparently goes through college board to get to ETS. I know that it seems like ETS and College Board are the same but they are two separate organizations one for profit and one non. So ETS makes a huge amount of profit off our testing.</p>
<p>Both ETS and College are formally nonprofit corporations (which in some states are labeled "not-for-profit" corporations), which simply means that money left over after paying staff and paying other expenses of operations is rolled over to funding new operations, rather than being distributed to owners (that is, shareholders). The form of governance of those organizations need not have a lot to do with how much they charge for their services. Competition for your business has more to do with that. In the testing business, ACT is also a nonprofit organization, offering a different line-up of tests at a different price. </p>
<p>But, again, where is the real beef here? Any of you can apply to open-enrollment colleges that don't require any testing, if you so please, and if the value of getting into a "better" college is worth more to your future than the cost of paying for the test, it's still smart for you to pay for the test. You could start your working career with only a "free" high school diploma if you are really concerned about not paying more out of pocket. (I might add that the worst oligopolies in American education are not College Board or ETS, but rather the thousands of local school districts that claim your taxes whether you think they are doing a good job or not.)</p>
<p>i bet Collegeboard's president is a millionaire</p>
<p>The presidents of most high-revenue organizations with growing business, whether those organizations are "nonprofit" or "for profit," are millionaires. People who can manage large organizations well are sufficiently rare that they command high salaries in the job market.</p>