<p>What kind of dumbass decided it was a good idea to add a fee to be able to submit a financial aid CSS profile to colleges?</p>
<p>Websites aren’t free. The people that manage/develop/maintain/support them don’t work for free. Servers aren’t free. Databases aren’t free. Electricity isn’t free. Etc etc etc.</p>
<p>Why should it be free? It’s not run by the government, so you can’t expect us taxpayers to foot the bill.</p>
<p>The only thing that amazes me about this is that it ever WAS free. This is an extremely valuable service, provided for a ridiculously low fee.</p>
<p>The kind of “dumbass” that wants to be paid for his work.</p>
<p>Disclosure: i’m not speaking for myself, because i’m not applying for FA, so don’t think this is because its ME that is stingy or whatever.</p>
<p>Its counter-intuitive that people who require aid need to pay money to even have their forms sent. Before you say these people are trying to get paid, consider the fact that these are the same people that work for the rest of collegeboard. Its not as if they are banking on this fee for a living. This non-profit organization should be able to deflect these costs to their other services such as score choice, standardized test registrations, score submissions to colleges etc etc, the list goes on. Also, do you honestly think this service would cost $25, its not as if these people are filling the forms. The only thing collegeboard needs to do is hit a button to send it to the colleges. Is that worth $25?</p>
<p>The College Board AUTOMATICALLY applies a fee waiver to low-income families based on the information entered on the form. Read this for details: <a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/PROFILE_fees.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>in that case i am satisfied</p>
<p>The cost of submitting a CSS Profile is a drop in the bucket compared to the financial aid a low income student has the potential to receive. And like mentioned above…fee waivers are available to those who can document their low income status.</p>
<p>And there is always the option of applying to a FAFSA only school. FAFSA is FREE.</p>