The Official How-Much-I've-Spent-on-Standardized-Testing Thread

mellow
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:24:21 +0000

Gonna be a freshy in college this fall and thank God, I am DONE with standardized testing. For now, at least. I thought it’d be amusing to calculate exactly how much I’ve spent through standardized testing. I found this kind of difficult because College Board and ACT don’t exactly log the amount you’ve spent in your account. And probably for good reason. So I did some searching through my emails, score reports (the ones online), and bank account statements and found that I’ve spent over $1000. Details below…

SAT Reasoning
Jan 2006 - $65.60 (includes Q/A service)
Jun 2006 - $51.50 (includes Student Answer Service)
Oct 2006 - $41.50

SAT Subject
Nov 2006 - $42.00 (three subject tests)
Dec 2006 - $42.00 (three subject tests)

SAT Additional Score Reports
Oct 2006 - $47.50 (5 reports)
Dec 2006 - $47.50 (5 reports)
^ I applied to 9 schools and used up the 4 included spots, hence the 5 additional reports

ACT
June 2006 - $44.50 (includes writing)
Oct 2006 - $44.50 (includes writing)

ACT Additional Score Reports
Nov 2006 - $40 (5 reports)

ACT Early Viewing Fees
Nov 2006 - $16 (I stupidly forgot to write down the scores after viewing them the first time – it costs $8 per view)

AP Exams
$498 (6 tests at $83 each)
$8 (early viewing)

Now these don’t count as “standardized testing” per se, but I do think they were an expense:

Community College Transcript Fees
$45 (9 reports)

HS Extra Transcript Fees
Estimated $15

TOTAL $1048.60

This doesn’t take into account the amount I spent on SAT, AP, and ACT prep books. Although I have sold many of them on half and amazon to recoup some of the money, still. 0_0 cries a little