Thursday, February 1, 2007
By popular demand, I’ve decided to go through and calculate just how much I spent on applying to graduate school. Well, actually, no one really seems to ask me how much I spent, but every time I think about it I can’t believe how much money I blew on a bunch of forms.
So to review: I applied to ten schools around the country. The one with the least fees was Carnegie Mellon, which charged $0.00 to read my application. The one with the greatest fees was the City University of New York, Graduate Center, which charged me $125.00 to read my application. The mean was $58.50.
The ETS charges $15.00 to report your (required) GRE scores. Per school. Plus a service fee per request. Since I had to submit one school twice, the total amount I paid the ETS was $216.00.
The total amount I spent on shipping is a bit skewed, since I FedExed everything. Most of my applications didn’t come down to the deadline, but I wanted to get everything in as quickly as possible. Total shipping costs: $199.73.
Finally, I spent $148.25 on transcripts, office supplies, books, and miscellany.
So, the grand total I have spent applying to grad schools since October comes to $1148.98. I wonder if I can get a tax write-off…
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