ASU Summer 2010 Program Applicants

AZapplicant · Apr 1, 2010

I had the same number (approx.) that they gave us in the initial workshop. The costs were not in the packet they gave us so they just told us the cost of tuition from 2009 I think. The $3537 sounds more like how much they said Fall and Spring are each, but for some reason the Summer tuition is ridiculously expensive. They explained it, but I didn't understand why.

Yeah, You're right... They did say it was going to be $6600 (+$750) and that was before the recent tuition increase. It's going to be pretty expensive over the summer.

PineappleCrush · Apr 1, 2010

I talked to financial aid today because I was curious for myself. My situation is I maxed out my loans here at MCC but I was listed as a sophmore. As a junior the limits are a little higher. I asked them if they would re-asses my loans and work with me as a junior for the 09-10 FASFA period and he said yes. Then obviously Fall starts the 10-11 FAFSA. So depending on where you are at for grants and loans, from what they were telling me is they will be giving financial aid for the summer. They said it should automatically re-asses me when I register for summer, but he said to call afterwords just to be sure.

Ohhh, yeah that's what I understood, that they're going to take the info from the 09-10 FAFSA and apply it for the summer. It just sucks that they won't apply it until we sign up for classes, but we won't be signing up for classes until April 30th... so if we don't get anything from FAFSA, that will leave us 17 days to scramble to find a loan and pay ASU! That's cutting it a bit close in my opinion... :bugeyes: I have no idea whether or not FAFSA will give me anything. They typically don't, simply because I have a tuition waiver, but the tuition waiver doesn't apply to summer, so I'm hoping FAFSA will at least offer a loan... Ughhhh, money (tuition!) sucks.

Yeah, You're right... They did say it was going to be $6600 (+$750) and that was before the recent tuition increase. It's going to be pretty expensive over the summer.

Oh wow! That's quite a lot of money, thanks for letting us know. I didn't actually go to the meeting for the Summer round... haha. As far as I understand it about the tuition increases, is that they're applied to incoming freshmen and not returning students. Although I'm not sure how or if it applies to transfer students or anything like that. :chair:

Yeah it was an interesting experience to say the least! I'm glad I did it, but I'm also glad I got out too. And yeah, I did go overseas. I went to Baghdad, Iraq for 15 months. If you remember when they did the surge in the beginning of 2007, my unit was the very first to get in country as a part of that. We actually had 6 days notice before we left too! lol They told us the day after Christmas and we were wheels up by Jan 2nd I think.

Wow, you were in Iraq for 15 months? That's brutal And you guys didn't even hear about it until 6 days beforehand?! Yikes! Gotta love the way the military works sometimes... it's either "hurry up and wait (for ages and ages)" or "GO, GO, GO!" without hardly a forewarning. What a Christmas present, eh?

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airborneinf82, BSN · Apr 2, 2010

Ohhh, yeah that's what I understood, that they're going to take the info from the 09-10 FAFSA and apply it for the summer. It just sucks that they won't apply it until we sign up for classes, but we won't be signing up for classes until April 30th... so if we don't get anything from FAFSA, that will leave us 17 days to scramble to find a loan and pay ASU! That's cutting it a bit close in my opinion... I have no idea whether or not FAFSA will give me anything. They typically don't, simply because I have a tuition waiver, but the tuition waiver doesn't apply to summer, so I'm hoping FAFSA will at least offer a loan... Ughhhh, money (tuition!) sucks.

Well before you didn't have much "need" since you had a tuition waiver, but now you do since you have $7000 of tuition and fees so hopefully they will do something. Does your parents income affect you much?

Wow, you were in Iraq for 15 months? That's brutal And you guys didn't even hear about it until 6 days beforehand?! Yikes! Gotta love the way the military works sometimes... it's either "hurry up and wait (for ages and ages)" or "GO, GO, GO!" without hardly a forewarning. What a Christmas present, eh?

HAHAH yeah MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! You're going to Iraq! I was excited though, as crazy as that sounds. It was all the married guys that I felt for who had to leave their families so quick. I would of left the next day if they would have let me. But then again, we also were origionally told it would be a 6 month deployment, then it got extended to 12 months and then again to 15.

PineappleCrush · Apr 3, 2010

The biggest difference is that we're all in class at 07:30 instead of 09:00 like you guys

haha, yeahh! I don't know why we start so late in the summer! I hope it's not a typo, because it would be kind of nice to start so late! :) All of the classes for fall start at 7:30 as well, so I'd like to get the chance to sleep in a little over summer :yawn: Although traffic is going to be pretty bad trying to get there at 9am... haha.

Well before you didn't have much "need" since you had a tuition waiver, but now you do since you have $7000 of tuition and fees so hopefully they will do something. Does your parents income affect you much?

Yeah, unfortunately it does. My dad is the only one that works in the family and his baseline pay isn't very large considering he's the only one in the family who works full-time. He works a TON of overtime, though, so when we/he fills out the FAFSA, it makes it look like he earns a lot more but it's really just a lot of over-night and weekend overtime hours that he will not have access to this year since he works for the City of Phoenix and he's been effected by the latest "down-sizing." Unfortunately FAFSA won't reflect the "down-sizing" until the 2011-2012 school year, which we'll be graduated by then! :) I'm going to have to go in and talk to Financial Aid about this because hopefully there is SOMETHING they can do, but idk. Times are tough nowadays financially... hopefully we'll all be able to get jobs right out of school to help pay for everything ASAP :)

HAHAH yeah MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! You're going to Iraq! I was excited though, as crazy as that sounds. It was all the married guys that I felt for who had to leave their families so quick. I would of left the next day if they would have let me. But then again, we also were origionally told it would be a 6 month deployment, then it got extended to 12 months and then again to 15.

Ohh, yeah, that had to have been really tough for them to leave so quick, and after Christmas! That's really sad about the time-line, though! I would be pretty upset if it was only supposed to be a 6 month tour and it got extended to 15 months! But I guess that's a fairly common occurrence. :icon_roll

13 more days till the meeting!! :heartbeat

Does anyone know what they're going to do about parking for the school year? I really don't want to pay $780 for a parking spot at UCENT or under NHI-1 if all of our classes are going to be in the Mercado all the time. I hope they'll have summer passes or something because I already sold-back my parking pass... I'll have to ask that in the meeting!

ka2010 · Apr 3, 2010

I'm just doing the light rail pass for $25 for the summer.

tttt · Apr 3, 2010

13 more days till the meeting!! :heartbeat
Does anyone know what they're going to do about parking for the school year? I really don't want to pay $780 for a parking spot at UCENT or under NHI-1 if all of our classes are going to be in the Mercado all the time. I hope they'll have summer passes or something because I already sold-back my parking pass... I'll have to ask that in the meeting!

You guys are kicking us out of our theory class that day for your welcome meeting. lame. haha

Parking at NHI and walking to the Mercado isn't really that bad. It's about ten minutes away. If you live on the west or east side of phoenix another alternative is parking at the light rail stops and taking it into downtown. There are people in Scottsdale who drive down to a stop at 38th and Washington St. and just take the train for about 15 minutes into downtown and save a ton of money. The pass is 80 dollars for an entire school year, which is a pretty good deal considering parking at the stops is free.

airborneinf82, BSN · Apr 3, 2010

Does anyone know what they're going to do about parking for the school year? I really don't want to pay $780 for a parking spot at UCENT or under NHI-1 if all of our classes are going to be in the Mercado all the time. I hope they'll have summer passes or something because I already sold-back my parking pass... I'll have to ask that in the meeting!

The new yearly rates don't start until August. You can get any of the parking spots prorated from whatever month you purchase them. And, although they are not right where you have classes, there are parking structures that were around $240/yr if I am remembering correctly.

Where is the Mercado? Classes are not where the main nursing office is? Man I'm so going to get lost!! haha

I live in Queen Creek and still am not sure what I am going to do. I think for the summer I will drive, but maybe for fall and spring I will do the lightrail. I don't know, either way its going to be suck and take forever. Thanks ASU for scratching the Nursing program at Polytechnic!!!

PineappleCrush · Apr 4, 2010

I'm just doing the light rail pass for $25 for the summer.

If you live on the west or east side of phoenix another alternative is parking at the light rail stops and taking it into downtown. There are people in Scottsdale who drive down to a stop at 38th and Washington St. and just take the train for about 15 minutes into downtown and save a ton of money. The pass is 80 dollars for an entire school year, which is a pretty good deal considering parking at the stops is free.

I wish I could do the lightrail!! I live near 107th Ave and Camelback, so it would take me about an hour to get to the 7th Ave. and Camelback park and ride via surface streets... and then it'd be another 20-ish minutes to get Downtown (versus the normal 20 or so minutes it takes me to drive straight Downtown). It's completely out of my way, unfortunately. I might still consider it, though... I'll have to wait for FAFSA to find out what I'll be doing for parking!

Parking at NHI and walking to the Mercado isn't really that bad. It's about ten minutes away.

The new yearly rates don't start until August. You can get any of the parking spots prorated from whatever month you purchase them. And, although they are not right where you have classes, there are parking structures that were around $240/yr if I am remembering correctly.

Yeah, for last semester I had a pass for the Parking Garage at 7th Street and Washington (just outside Chase Ballpark and the Science Center). It was $210 for the whole year and wasn't bad at all; it's actually fairly close to Mercado, too! But its pretty far from UCENT/NHI/NHI-2 and it really sucked to book it if I was running a little behind because it was so far, but it was manageable I guess. It was sketchy at night, though. I was always scared of getting jumped because there were hardly ANY other people around. Kinda scary-movie-deserted-creepy haha :uhoh3: Maybe it was just the time I was there, though

Where is the Mercado? Classes are not where the main nursing office is? Man I'm so going to get lost!! haha

The Mercado is on Van Buren between 7th Street and 5th Street. It's a complex of several white-washed Spanish-style buildings; you really wouldn't think they're school buildings haha. I don't know where our classes will be, but I think there are quite a few that are at the Mercado as well as some in NHI/NHI-2, I believe. Is that correct, tttt and Tarabara?

You guys are kicking us out of our theory class that day for your welcome meeting. lame. haha

haha, shouldn't you be thanking us?! No class! ;P haha jk jk Are you guys just being moved to a different place or is class canceled?

:heartbeat

tttt · Apr 4, 2010

I wish I could do the lightrail!! I live near 107th Ave and Camelback, so it would take me about an hour to get to the 7th Ave. and Camelback park and ride via surface streets... and then it'd be another 20-ish minutes to get Downtown (versus the normal 20 or so minutes it takes me to drive straight Downtown). It's completely out of my way, unfortunately. I might still consider it, though... I'll have to wait for FAFSA to find out what I'll be doing for parking!
Yeah, for last semester I had a pass for the Parking Garage at 7th Street and Washington (just outside Chase Ballpark and the Science Center). It was $210 for the whole year and wasn't bad at all; it's actually fairly close to Mercado, too! But its pretty far from UCENT/NHI/NHI-2 and it really sucked to book it if I was running a little behind because it was so far, but it was manageable I guess. It was sketchy at night, though. I was always scared of getting jumped because there were hardly ANY other people around. Kinda scary-movie-deserted-creepy haha Maybe it was just the time I was there, though
The Mercado is on Van Buren between 7th Street and 5th Street. It's a complex of several white-washed Spanish-style buildings; you really wouldn't think they're school buildings haha. I don't know where our classes will be, but I think there are quite a few that are at the Mercado as well as some in NHI/NHI-2, I believe. Is that correct, tttt and Tarabara?
haha, shouldn't you be thanking us?! No class! ;P haha jk jk Are you guys just being moved to a different place or is class canceled?
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Our classes started in mercado, but then our teachers realized the rooms sucked and we moved into NHI2 and UCENT. I'd honestly get a spot at NHI because its closer to more stuff. Walking to merc at night isn't a big deal because you won't be there after sundown at all. The mercado is pretty dominated by the CON; our labs are all there plus simulation rooms and our LRC, so count on being there at least once a week.

our class isn't cancelled, we just moved upstairs into NHI 222. My only complaint is that 222 doesn't have all the computers like our normal class does, so we can't be on facebook the entire time haha

knowing me, i'll walk into your meeting room and sit down out of habit like a fool.

airborneinf82, BSN · Apr 4, 2010

(versus the normal 20 or so minutes it takes me to drive straight Downtown)

20 minutes? :crying2: It takes me and hour and 15 with NO traffic! :eek:

I actually used to live over that way off 103rd Ave and Indian School. Nice area out there.

One thing I was wanting to look in to and maybe yall might know. Is there some sort of bus service directly between the campuses? Like, is there a bus that would go from Polytechnic to Tempe without stops?

airborneinf82, BSN · Apr 4, 2010

Our classes started in mercado, but then our teachers realized the rooms sucked and we moved into NHI2 and UCENT. I'd honestly get a spot at NHI because its closer to more stuff. Walking to merc at night isn't a big deal because you won't be there after sundown at all. The mercado is pretty dominated by the CON; our labs are all there plus simulation rooms and our LRC, so count on being there at least once a week.
our class isn't cancelled, we just moved upstairs into NHI 222. My only complaint is that 222 doesn't have all the computers like our normal class does, SO WE CAN'T BE ON FACEBOOK THE ENTIRE TIME haha
knowing me, i'll walk into your meeting room and sit down out of habit like a fool.

HAHAHAHAAH!!! Now thats funny!

:cheers:

tttt · Apr 4, 2010

There is a shuttle that goes between tempe and west and tempe and poly. The tempe-west shuttle stops in downtown. the problem with these shuttles is that 1. there's like a 40 minute wait sometimes, 2. the earliest shuttle will arrive in tempe at 7:15 from poly, and 3. if you miss one, you're probably screwed

a couple of our classmates live in anthem and come downtown every day; be glad you aren't them.