whoa! this is ridiculous..is this like this at every university?

[funglemuggle]

Daughter just put this on her fb page.

"So we have to buy our own scantrons for college?? What the crap!" ONe of her college peeps said I KNOW and they are NOT cheap either!

SO i text her and asked what she is talking about.

She responds and says that every professor requires them to buy their own scantrons. You can buy them in a pack of 4 and they have to be a certain kind. 883-e i think she said. Some of her professors have 5 tests so that is one pack of 4 plus an additonal pack for 1 more test. She is taking 5 classes.

So i ask her how much are these scantrons? and she says 25 dollars, mom!

seriously? seriously? i'm going to check around and see if i can find them someplace cheaper..gotta make sure that code is right, first.and send her a box of them to split with her friends.

I'm paying nearly 200 a credit hour to send her there..you THINK they would at least provide the stupid scantrons.

STUPID!

 

[TraceyMR]

It is totally normal. College is not public school. Prepare to pony up a ton of money. The scantrons are mrked way up it seems. Mine were a dollar or two for a ten pack when I was in college 4 years ago.

[90210Mommy]

I had to buy my own and our test booklets too I think it's normal because it was the same way at my school in the US and in the UK.

[mama2gg]

Yup normal
This is college you pay to get in, you pay for your food and your personal learning tools

[slashteddy]

That's ridiculous. :| I could understand a public school, as funding is always being cut and more and more teachers are having to ask students to buy ALL their own supplies, but a COLLEGE? All I had to actually buy for classes was textbooks and basic supplies (paper and pens at least... folders and binders and such if I wanted to be organized). And that was just five years ago.

[mommy1008]

We had to buy ours but they were only 15 cents each.

[funglemuggle]

Quoting TraceyMR:

It is totally normal. College is not public scholl. Prepare to pony up a ton of money.

200 a credit hour plus fees plus a nearly 500 parking sticker..and then to hear the president makes over a million a year.

just kind of pisses me off a tad. lol.

[TraceyMR]

LOL I understand.

Quoting funglemuggle:

Quoting TraceyMR:

It is totally normal. College is not public scholl. Prepare to pony up a ton of money.

200 a credit hour plus fees plus a nearly 500 parking sticker..and then to hear the president makes over a million a year.

just kind of pisses me off a tad. lol.

[brandi2781]

Well my school is 760 a hour so be glad it is just 200 and mine don't include books, uniforms or any supplies. I would love for mine to be that cheap!

[Mandiii04]

Shit, my community college had them $5 for 10 of them in a vending machine.

[thetrollcat]

Well gosh, College should pay for our books, papers, pens, backpacks, Flash Drives, softwares......