Girlie AGDee's College Search Thread

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

Also there are ways to get the fees waived, or at least there were when I was first applying to colleges. Applied to 4 schools I believe and I didn't pay any app fee.

I also had fee waivers and applied to more than ten schools.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Not really thousands of dollars, the app fee for (example) Harvard = $75. If all 10 of your schools fall into that range, it's only $750. I'd imagine that depending on the school, it's not even that high. My state school's app fee is only $40. If you're applying to all state type schools, your total app fee costs are like $400-500.

Grad/med/law app fees are a different story lol.

That's just the application fee though. There is a fee for every school you send SAT scores to, and ACT score fees, and CSS Profile fees. I easily spent well over $1000. The only free app she did was for Wellesley.

Financial aid packages for DePaul and American came in today. I don't know if we can swing American. They seem to think I can spend 1/3 of my income out of pocket and, well, I can't. And that was after enough in loans that she'd be about $80K in debt when she graduates. DePaul's was a little bit better.