CSS Profile...Expensive!!!

FastLane
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:40:11 +0000

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sybbie:

Do you think that the colleges should charge on flat processing fee to each student that would cover SATI & II scores, and the profile? They could all get together and excerise their power to obtain some type of volume discount as end users to the service. But what is a fair price?



Yes, I think the flat rate idea would be a good and fair idea. I think it would be comparable to the service that CB provides to the colleges that participate in IDOC.
As far as what I consider a “fair” price – since $5.00 per IDOC packet is what CB charges the colleges, for first time applicants, I would make it easy and charge students the same for filing the CSS Profile.

The following refers to the fee that CB charges the colleges for IDOC:

“Institutions are charged $6.50 for each documentation packet processed for a renewal applicant and $5.00 for each first-time applicant packet.”

Reference:
https://finaidonline.collegeboard.com/pi_aboutidoc.jsp