<p>We have to pay for our exams. Last year I took three and we were BROKE for like two months. Does your school pay for the exam or are you just rich?</p>
<p>I took 2 sophomore year, 4 last year, and I’ll take 5 this year. No, my school does not pay for them, but my family qualifies for aid from the school to help pay for them.</p>
<p>Our school charges $87 each as well. My daughter is only taking the ones she can use at the college she is going to, and the program she is going in to. Make sure to check what the college(s)/program(s) accept before you waste your money taking tests for credits you cannot get or use. :)</p>
<p>Our school pays for them :).</p>
<p>It’s worse if you’re international. I took 4 exams last year and it cost 780 USD. Yes that’s 195 USD per exam.</p>
<p>No. I’m taking 11 exams this year at $87 a pop.</p>
<p>It’s worth it though, because they are so easy.</p>
<p>$87.
Better be worth it…</p>
<p>My parents paid for all my exams, and we’re definitely not rich, but not exactly poor. I believe if your family makes less than a certain income, you qualify for a fee waiver from CollegeBoard and you have to pay around $55 instead.</p>
<p>I think the AP exams are way overpriced, given that tens of thousands, upward to a hundred thousand, of students take them each year and the exams are largely reused. (Multiple choice anyway, FRQ are always new but they are pretty similar to old FRQs in some cases)</p>
<p>Wait… AP exams are cheap… How does a few hundred- a thousand dollars make you broke?</p>
<p>Some schools pay. Some schools do not. I think that even if the kids can afford the tests, having to pay for each one discourages taking extra AP tests, which makes me unhappy. I still took a lot even though my school didn’t pay, but I know a lot of people didn’t take AP tests just because of the money.</p>
<p>To a lot of families, a few hundred dollars is huge. Living “paycheck to paycheck” sucks. </p>
<p>OP, look into fee waivers. Your counselor should have the info, but google it too because most counselors are lazy and/or idiotic.</p>
<p>I’ve taken: Biology, English Language, Spanish Language, European History, and United States History. I’ve payed maybe $30 for all of them. Because my school is a title I school, I only need to pay $5 per test. Its pretty neat. But since my district is cutting back, we have to pay $20 per test now (I’ll be taking 3 in May). Not as bad as $87 though, by a long shot.</p>
<p>BUgebs, some families are not rich or even moderately wealthy and live “paycheck to paycheck.” My friend had to limit the number of applications he submitted because his parents could not afford to pay for a number of applications, and last year, he almost didn’t take the SAT because his parents didn’t receive their paycheck to pay for the testing fee until right before the deadline.</p>
<p>the school doesnt pay and charges us $103 instead of $87 for each test-.-</p>
<p>I was going to take 6 exams this year but I had to drop one because we couldn’t pay for it… and so the world turns.</p>
<p>Arggg My school doesn’t pay for mine!!! You guys are lucky</p>
<p>Nah, so I’m limiting myself to 3 exams. This year, that’s not an issue, but next year I could potentially take 5…</p>
<p>My school doesn’t pay for ours, and if we don’t take the test then it doesn’t show up as an ap class on our transcript, but shows up as an honors class instead. Not taking the ap test could end up hurting your gpa/class rank.</p>