Parents & Families
Parents & Families of Applicants & Admitted Students
While students are the ones attending college, families play an important role in the selection and application process. Get informed about the details and your child will appreciate your expertise.
Applying is only half the college admission process. Once your student is admitted, there’s plenty left to do.
Commitment Deposit
This payment lets your selected college know that you plan to enroll at that institution. At TCU, admitted students who want to enroll must pay the $500 nonrefundable commitment deposit by May 1 at 5 p.m. (CDT). This is applied toward your student’s first bill and essentially acts as a first payment. The commitment deposit can be made:
- On the MyTCU Portal
- By calling the Office of Admission with a credit card number
- In person by delivering a check to TCU's Office of Admission.
Vaccinations
The State of Texas Senate Bill 1107 requires all incoming students under the age of 22 to provide record of a meningitis vaccination administered within the past five years. Submitting your vaccination records to the TCU Health Center allows access to the housing application. Please ask your student’s pediatrician to use TCU's Official Form.
For more information, please visit TCU's Health Center.
Financial Aid
All students who submit the College Scholarship Service (CSS) Profile and FAFSA will receive a financial aid package. Financial Aid is a tile on the MyTCU Portal and contains information for all of the scholarship, grants and loans offered by TCU to your student. You can easily accept these offers on the portal.
If you’d like to talk to someone in Financial Aid anytime during the application or enrollment process, send them an email at financialaid@tcu.edu or give them a call at (817) 257-7858.
Housing
TCU requires all first-and-second year students to live on campus. But with the amenities and comfort provided by our residence halls, many prefer to live on campus for all four years.
Once admitted students make the commitment deposit and submit vaccination records, they'll be eligible to complete the housing application. There are opportunities to specify a roommate, or TCU is happy to match roommates based on responses from the housing application. We’ve been doing it for about 100 years, and we’ve gotten pretty good at matching roommates that result in lifelong friendships.
Extended housing is an opportunity that many students take advantage of as a way to save money. Three students become roommates instead of the traditional two, and as a result the cost of housing is reduced. During the summer, students may sign up for extended housing.