Applying from outside the US can be much more expensive. APART FROM GRE "COSTS" and application fees
you might have to
1. do TOEFL- another expense
2. Evaluate Transcripts
3. Sometimes. translate transcripts
sometimes, the credit cards in my country cant pay application fees so you have to post a foreign cheque and that of course pay bank charges!phew
yeah, I applied to only one US school- Notre Dame and got in! I do not live in the US and didnt know whether ND was prestigious or not, its not known in my country! I just applied cos it had the course i wanted and i wasnt required to evaluate my foreign transcripts (which is an additional expense!) and i wasnt required to write TOEFL.. (It really all goes down to the expense..lol). Oh, i couldn't pay the application fees from my country (come from a developing country where we DO NOT use credit cards-believe me! and we cant send money abroad through western union in my country, we can only receive) and when i heard the cost of drawing a cheque and posting it i begged my uncle in australia to pay for me!