If you are a freshman thinking about living in an apartment or living at home, stop thinking about it now. Live in a dorm; it is so very worth it.
Nowhere, but a dorm can one receive the complete college experience. While one may live with a roommate and/or a suitemate in an apartment, spending at least your freshman year in the dorms is the right decision.
Over 50,000 students go to the Tempe campus of Arizona State, plus another 20,000 at the other three campuses. With more than 80 percent of those students undergraduates, that means just short of 15,000 students are freshmen. 15,000.
Arizona State is the biggest university in the nation, and obviously has more freshmen than anywhere else in the nation. While some freshmen do live at ASU's Vista del Sol or an off-campus apartment like The Vue, the majority of freshman do live in the dorm buildings.
With seven all-freshmen dorms and five that include freshmen, all freshmen (and their parents) have their choice of where to live. While some are more expensive, often depending on the style of the rooms and their proximity to food, they are all affordable. The most expensive of the non-Barrett (Honors College) dorms is just short of $7,000 for the year. The whole breakdown of pricing is available here.
The prices at the West and Polytechnic campuses are a little cheaper, but living at Taylor Place at the Downtown campus is a little more expensive.
While it can be a smarter move financially for people that live close enough to campus for students to live at home and commute to school, a dorm is the smarter place for a student to live in order to get the full college experience. Parents, please. Let them go live in a dorm for at least one year. Let them get everything they can out of college, experience it to the fullest.
Just let them live in a dorm.
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