In Singapore you pay too, I applied for 3 and got rejected from 2. You have to pay to appeal too, which is just robbery frankly. I mean we've already paid to apply, why should we pay to appeal?
You pay in Canada too. In my province (Ontario), you pay a company to send out your applications to the schools you pick. And it costs more to apply outside the province.
Lots of countries it isn't free. The reason for it is the same reason you see job applications with higher than possible requirements. (Need 5 years experience on a program that came out 2 years ago, etc.) To weed out the people that have any doubts about wanting to go there. They are gonna get tons of applicants anyway, and only so many can be accepted, at least this way they can lower the amount of garbage applicants so they don't have to waste a bunch of time and effort looking them over just to reject them. If a $35 application fee is really making you question whether you should even bother applying to said college, you probably shouldn't bother. You are gonna be paying thousands of dollars to get through school (whether you are paying that money or you have scholarships paying it, its still being paid one way or another) The tiny application fee should in no way be a limiting factor for you.
Sigh, plenty of schools outside the US charge a fee. Plenty of schools in the US don't charge a fee. Schools charge a fee to cut down on the number of bullshit applications. If it doesn't cost anything, lots of people with no actual interest will apply just to be safe and it throws off all your acceptance ratios. If your school doesn't charge a fee, it means they aren't getting overwhelmed by applications.
I'm amazed by how often I see someone from outside the US on here making wildly ignorant assumptions about the US (and their own country) based on a single post on Tumblr. And yet we're supposed to be the dumb ones.
In Germany we dont have to pay, but therefore some courses have an average you had to get at your Abitur, so there still won't be an unnecessary applications.
yes it really sucks. for example you have to get straight 1s (relates A) in your Abitur which would give you a numerus clausus of 1,0 and a maximum of 1,2 to even have the chance to get accepted.
Nothing is free ever, anywhere. Somebody always pays for the crap that you ingrates want for free. John and Jane Taxpayer are running out of money to give you people FREE shit. Somebody will say "stupid guest", grow up. Somebody else will say "military budget", tell that to the UN Security Council. Somebody else will say "my country is free", but your UN or EU reps will vote to spend more and more US or UK money and flex their military might so you can have clean hands and free shit. So tired of hearing how everybody is a victim.
I'm getting a free application this fall from AMDA which is a performing arts college in LA and New York. I got a letter from them yesterday telling me they would send me one. I got really excited when I got the letter and even more excited when I read about the free application. I also think that college applications should be free in America.
I like singing and acting, but mainly acting. I don't think I'm gifted, but that's because I haven't done much to know if I am or not. The only reason I got that letter was because they found out I was interested in performing arts. I'll have to audition to get in which is the only problem I have with it. I'm not one to get in front of people and speak, let alone sing and act. I'm still thinking about it, also. I'm a junior in high school at the moment so I have a little time to sum up the courage to memorize a monologue and stand in front of them for an audition. Only about 175 people out of 4,000+ people who apply and audition are accepted every year.
I'm amazed by how often I see someone from outside the US on here making wildly ignorant assumptions about the US (and their own country) based on a single post on Tumblr. And yet we're supposed to be the dumb ones.