What the hell is the difference between a High School transcript and a High School Transcript w/ grad date? And how the hell do I send it?
And how the hell do I send my senior year class list when it’s gonna be significantly different next semester!?
Ugh, GA Tech is annoying.
@readingclaygirl @XoXdreamerXoX The thing is, I live in CA, so you know applying to the UCs and CSUs is obligatory since it’s all one app. But applying to each campus costs $70 and $55 respectively, and that’s where the bulk of the money comes from (>50%). I do have a couple of fee waivers, so that number is a rough estimate, although it’s definitely $1000+ total.
And then comes the cost of actually going to college! Yay! :)>-
@basedchem I mean, all of the Texas A&Ms, University of Texas’s, UNTs, Stephen F. Austin, Houston Baptist University, Dallas Baptist University, Southern Methodist University, and a lot of others are on one app but it doesn’t mean we have to apply to all of them. (I know they’re not as prestigious as UCs, but I hope you see my point, haha.)
@XoXdreamerXoX Yeah, sorry if I misphrased my comment, which I did. I meant to say we have to apply to a lot of them, because home, you know? I’m applying to 7 of the 9 UCs ($490) and 2 of the 23(ish?) CSUs ($110). The app fees just stack up really quickly 
College: where you go into debt to get out of debt.
The only Texas college I’m applying to is Texas A&M and I’m using a fee waiver for it. It’s my one Texas love right now.
I think basedchem is smart enough to manage their own application process. I’ve lowered my list to 7, but different strokes for different folks. As long as they can pay for them and complete them, everything’s gucci.
I’d just never heard of anyone spending that much on college apps, is all. Max I’ll be spending is $300.
@XoXdreamerXoX - You should see the area I’m from. $1000 is an insanely low amount of money to spend on college apps – most people end up paying $2000 or more (this is including score reports and supplements, though).
Over here, at most, they tell us to apply to 5 colleges–4 on fee waiver (most of us are on free or reduced lunch) and another one we pay for. However, most don’t apply to college, period, so no money is usally spent on college apps. Which is probably the reason we have someone from this Texas program to aid high schools with a majority URM population (our school is 87% URM) and low income students on staff specifically for college recruiting of our student body and helping with college apps and scholarships.
Oh my community is relatively affluent (avg income is like $180k ish a year) so parents don’t mind money, since money is so minute when it comes to education. Also, 82% of my school is Asian, and basically the next 17% is white, so that’s where that mindset comes from.
I can relate to @basedchem and @glasshours – living in an affluent suburban town means that you see kids basically spending thousands of dollars to apply to college. It’s almost no big deal to shotgun colleges or just to apply to a bunch and see what happens.
On top of spending thousands of dollars just on application fees, students where I live spend thousands on hiring personal admissions counselors and essay coaches. I’ve even heard of some people trying to hire ghostwriters for their essays. And don’t forget about all those private tutors for school/SAT/ACT/AP. I’m not as well-off as my peers, and sometimes I wonder if spending all that money is even worth it. College admissions has become to much about making money nowadays imho.
@allista What you said is not something I’ve just heard of. Basically every other person from my school has a private tutor for their school assignments and standardized tests. A girl in the grade below me hired a Harvard graduate to write her english essay and received a 60% grade. Obviously, it was not because the Harvard graduate is not intelligent or qualified, but I think it shows that nobody can do the work for you, no matter how prestigious their diploma is.
Just curious, when are other schools’ homecomings? Mine is 10/17 and friends from other schools are telling me its really late.
mine was like 2 weeks ago
@ErenYeager
October 16th but I can’t go cuz detentions
Aww that sucks a couple of my friends can’t go because they got kicked out last year. They wouldn’t be part of my group but still
Mine is the 18th.
@LordBendtner Detention?