Intent to Take the Bar

I just finished my first step towards taking the bar exam. (Unless you want to count four years of law school.) I printed off and filled out the Intent to Take the Bar Exam form. I am not sure why we have to send a check for $80 along with that, just to tell them we are planning on taking the bar. Wouldn't just filling out and sending in the form be sufficient? But we have to pay them $80 for that? This year has had so many extra expenses that it has been very hard. So, I have paid for that, and paid for my two bar reviews, which is the major expense. Now I have to pay for the bar exam application and the background check, which are several hundred dollars apiece. Do they think money grows on trees or something?