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Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared on Living on the Cheap. Five hundred dollars to apply to college? That’s what my high school senior almost spent. No, she didn’t fall for some internet scam. Instead, at one point she had a list of 10 prospective colleges with each school charging $50 or so to apply. We were likely going to spend as much on college applications as we were on books…