Hi! My kid used the Common App to apply to ASU last week. Any sense of how long the review process takes? I’m wondering if anyone else has received an acceptance yet.
“undergraduate students should receive an admission decision in about four weeks.”
@lll1 - Did you hear back yet from ASU? My DD applied using the ASU app and was admitted. We are new to this process so I was a little confused if they accepted with her on her first choice major and if there was any merit awards.
My daughter was accepted. She is working on her Barrett Honors Application still. I don’t think they give the merit awards until after you complete the FAFSA in October. My daughter is expecting the scholarship for College Board National Hispanic Scholars for full tuition. She received her acceptance about 2 weeks after she applied. However they did not notify her. We logged into myasu to check status and confetti filled the screen and it said “congrats, you’re in”. She didn’t receive an email. Maybe she will receive a letter in the mail.
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As @martinezcs wrote, your next step is to complete the FAFSA starting on October 1st, and preferably prior to January 15 of next year (although some merit awards do not require this step).
See workflow at Applying for Aid | ASU Students | ASU
Then (and even if you decide not to fill the FAFSA, which will restrict your eligibility to certain awards) you will need to wait until early March.
“The awarding process for new first year students usually begins the first week of March. After all requested items needed for verification are processed by Financial Aid and Scholarship Services, you will receive a Financial Aid Notification (FAN).”
See Financial Aid for First Year Students | ASU Students | ASU
This is in line with what you can expect from other universities. By the end of March, you should have all the information you need to decide which university you want to attend (i.e. you will be able to compare financial aid between universities).
The tricky part is that some universities will ask you to put down a refundable deposit to secure a dorm room starting in January. So, you will have to decide if it is worth securing a room early or not. (We decided not to for my son a few years ago.)
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Yes, my kid was accepted. We also didn’t receive an email but saw the acceptance in the myasu website. A hard copy letter arrived yesterday which explained which major/school (perhaps this was on the website too, but we didn’t see it).
The letter didn’t say anything about merit aid, but it did mention that there was a link on the upper left of the myasu webpage called “financials” that might contain this information? We haven’t been on the site yet.
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Ah, I see you already received better information!
You make a good point about the dorm room. This has been a hot topic over in TAMU’s forum. The advice for TAMU is to put down the deposit to get early pick because it is slim pickings. We plan to do a deposit there because frankly we weren’t impressed with most of the dorms at TAMU. We toured and saw all the dorms. Some of the dorm buildings were old, small, double rooms and had the old school bathroom down the hall for the whole floor. There were 2-3 buildings that were nice. The rest not so much. So she wants early pick of dorms (if she ends up there). Anyway, with ASU, particularly Barrett Honors college, it seems all the dorm room options are pretty nice. We’ve only seen them online so far. We are attending Sun Devil day in November and will tour Barrett then. Any reason to hurry and put down a deposit on the dorm room if she gets accepted to Barrett?
We haven’t received the hard copy letter yet but we are in Texas.
As in Future Sun Devil Family Day? Isn’t that virtual this year? Or do you mean ASU Family Weekend?
The first year, at the Barrett Residential Complex (BRC), if you want to get a private room, you should act very quickly. They are not many of them and they get booked in a matter of days despites being a bit more expensive than the much more common shared rooms.
If a shared room is what you want, then no reason to hurry (but don’t wait past April in which case you could risk temporarily staying in a hotel room until a room frees up at the BRC).
For reference, floor plans and rates for BRC are available at ASU Barrett Honors Complex | Arizona State University
The second year, at Vista del Sol (VDS), private rooms are much more common.
For reference, floor plans and rates for VDS are available at ASU Vista del Sol | Arizona State University
VDS is located just across (south of) Apache Boulevard compared to BRC. The Barrett dining hall is located within the BRC complex. The Barrett swimming pool is located within the VDS complex.
BRC: ASU Interactive Map
VDS: ASU Interactive Map
BRC to VDS: Barrett Dining Center to Vista del Sol - Google Maps
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Hi! It’s not virtual. We received an invitation and scheduled. It just said masks are required and limited to the student and one guest. It said Sun Devil Day. Includes a tour of the main campus and you pick different information sessions and tours. We are going to do barrett and herberger. It’s a 3 hour event.
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Thank you! She does want a private bedroom. We will jump on that.
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How long did it take to get the admission information? Was it on the portal?
Yes, it was on the portal. But we just happened to go there to check one day–we didn’t get an email telling us to check.
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Any advice on the time frame for the housing deposit? For example, today my daughter was accepted to TAMU and I was able to go into the portal and click housing and do phase 1 in which we paid the $75 housing deposit so we get early pick when they open up the next phase. It’s literally the first thing people do after being accepted even before figuring everything else out. How does this work for ASU? She won’t even be accepted into barrett until Nov/Dec. She really wants a private bedroom. Update: I did find the housing portal. But it says you have to make your $300 enrollment deposit before you can access the housing portal? I guess we are going to have to wait till she gets her acceptance from Barrett and we tour in Nov before we do the enrollment deposit? I’m not sure I want to put down $300 until we do that at least. Then I guess we do the enrollment deposit and just do the process to get early dibs even if she doesn’t decide which school she is actually going to enroll at until April once all financial packages are solidified out at each school? Then she backs out of whichever she doesn’t end up going to and just forfeits the deposits?
The ASU housing portal opens in January (typically Mid-January). I don’t think that you can reserve a room until then, so I think that you have plenty of time (at least three months from now) to decide if you want to make the enrollment deposit.
That said, the enrollment deposit (minus a “processing fee”) is refundable as long as you officially decline admission by the typical May 1st college decision day deadline. See Enrollment Deposit | Admission | ASU for details. People forfeit the deposit when they pick ASU and then change their mind over the summer (one scenario being because they get off a waitlist somewhere else more prestigious in their mind).
(A few years ago, we personally did not put an enrollment deposit anywhere until our son completely decided to attend ASU/Barrett even though it was at the top of the list as soon as he got admitted at Barrett in early November, literally the day after he came back from the sleepover he had been invited to. We were waiting first for decisions from other colleges and then financial packages from Cornell and CMU. We only made the final decision shortly after April 1st, once we had all the data we needed. We did not know that private rooms would be already long gone, but ultimately my son was happy to have room/suitemates the first year, so it ended up working out for us.)
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