This is an empirical research which aims to explore the relationship between the university admission system and private tutoring expenditure. Using Korea Employment Panel (KEEP) Ⅰ and Ⅱ data sets, this study employed random and fixed effect models to examine whether there is a difference in private tutoring expenditure depending on the type of college admission system. This study showed that, in all cohorts, those students who used the transcript-based admission system spent less in private tutoring than the test-based admission. Indeed, there was no difference in private tutoring expenses depending on the college admission system for entering prestigious universities. The expenditure, however, was lower for students who used the transcript-based admission system than the test-based admission among those who entered the average universities. These findings suggest that discourse around the assumption that the impact of the college admission system on the expenditure of private tutoring will have the same effect on all students be reconsidered.