AP exam fee waiver

Vctory
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 05:21:29 +0000

I wish I could give you some good news, but I don’t have any. AP exam fee waivers are typically done through school. Have you had a face-to-face, sit-down, personal talk with your testing coordinator? I’m taking 8 exams this year ($712), and after a nice chat they agreed to make tests 7 + 8 free, with a discount on tests 5 + 6. I think my total’s now in the $480-$520 ballpark. A friend of mine’s also in 8 AP classes (at my school), but refused to take the tests due to costs/her college wouldn’t accept any credits from them. The principal and testing coordinator were extremely upset. Kids taking >= 5 exams in one year are somewhat valuable to high schools (something involving ranking and grant money). Resulting from that anger, they offered to waive all testing fees for her for motivation to take them (not really too fair given the fact that I still pay half a K, but w/e).

Hopefully you’ll be able to have a meeting with the testing coordinator, and hopefully they’ll have some grant money/school money laying around to help you with your situation. Best of luck.