<p>Has anyone been there? I’ve had a hard time finding people with experience from the Polytechnic (formerly known as East) campus. I know that it is a lot different than the Tempe campus, and that’s what has me worried. My dream school has a respectable business program, Division 1 sports with great school spirit, and an active community. As a Barrett student, I figure that will make up for the lack of W.P. Carey on my diploma, but how is the student life here? I’m really worried that as a student at Poly, I’ll be cutoff from most of the fun and activities.</p>
<p>Polytechnic is my only choice because of financial reasons; I needed the WUE tuition rate to make ASU a possibility.</p>
<p>You can attend the Polytechnic campus but still live in the dorms in Tempe…lots of students do that. Also, you will still have WP Carey on your diploma as the school consolidated with the Morrison school of agriculture, so it should still be WP Carey. </p>
<p>There’s a bus that goes to polytech from ASU Main (Tempe) almost every half hour, so it can be accessible without a car. I’d still consider the Tempe campus. </p>
<p>What exactly is WUE, and why can’t you go to the main campus under that scholarship/program?</p>
<p>^western undergrad exchange??? okay, so I forget what it actually stands for, but it is a program that makes tuiton cheaper for people living out of state. I think you pay like 150% out the instate tuition. The Tempe campus doesn’t accept WUE, but the Polytechnic campus does.</p>
<p>Oh wow, thanks christalena2! I had no idea that was a possibility; I’ll definitely look into that. I would love to stay in that new residential college they just built, that’s what first got me interested in Barrett.</p>
<p>& @LAX, yes, 150% of in-state tuition for OOS students. It’s limited to certain programs, so that’s why my major is over at the College of Technology and Innovation at the Polytechnic campus.</p>
<p>Well I just attended one of the Future Freshmen Receptions tonight, and the admissions representative that I talked to said that living at Tempe while taking classes at Poly with the WUE program is not something that I can do as a freshman. She said I can try as a sophomore, though.</p>
<p>You can still take the shuttle from Poly to Tempe (and from there you can ride the light rail to downtown as well (major sports facilities there as well as the ASU Downtown campus). The Poly campus feels almost rural and isolated compared to Tempe but it has great programs and undoubtedly smaller class sizes. An acquaintance of my D (a Barrett student) transferred from Tempe to Poly and prefers it due to the smaller size.</p>
<p>We had the same worries about being isolated at the Poly campus. I called and talked to a nice person at the Poly campus and they said its like a 50 minute shuttle ride to the Tempe campus - I think all the action probably happens on the Tempe campus. We had to choose a major at the Poly campus for the same reason - the WUE program. Anyways, my son decided to accept his offer at NAU instead. It is actually a pretty awesome university and town. We live in the high desert in Cali, and the heat in Mesa was also a factor. It’s HOT here but really hot there. Anyways, good luck! ***Note, he was accepted into several Cal States, but he really like NAU. He looks like a lumberjack anyways - so its a fit!</p>
<p>You can live in Tempe and take classes at Poly, I know people who do. However, you might get some scholarships from ASU that make this whole process unecessary. Example: I am out of state and received a scholarship that makes my tuition less than WUE.(150% of instate tuition.) Instate tuition at ASU is around $8000 so 150% is $12,000. Out of state tuition is around $20,000. I received $8,000 per year. So I would wait for scholarships to decide what to do. However, I can tell you that if your priorities are school spirit and D1 sports, ASU is the wrong school. I came here expecting that and it is lacking, even on the Tempe campus. There’s more spirit than some tiny Cal State school would have, but it’s lacking.</p>