<p>I may be overthinking this- but what is the best deal?</p>
<p>My daughter is off campus and has the minimum board plan - but isn’t using it much and is giving away her points. We are going to cancel it for spring semester- but then they will lower her grant- ( as her expenses will then be deemed to be lower)- I still think it will be cheaper to send her money for meals ( which I assume will be lower than the $1719 she is charged a semester) even though they lower the grant by $769.</p>
<p>Obviously math is not my forte’ I don’t know why it seems confusing- possibly because the board is subsidizing the physical plant.
(it cost $1719- but you don’t have that much to spend on food)</p>
<p>so you will save 1719 -769 - new food costs because she isn’t in plan.</p>
<p>So how much do you think you will have to send her to make up the meals she did use? More than $950 (1719-769)? $950 is the number.</p>
<p>You can figure this out by how much more you will have to give her…amount per day times the number of days in the semester. Must be less than $950. </p>
<p>well you don’t have access to all of the $1700- only about $700 I think is actual board points- because board subsidizes the physical plant or something like that-
but I just talked to her and told her to go ahead and cancel it.
She is getting pretty sick of the food- and would probably eat better if she could buy it herself. She says she can be hungry right up until the moment she enters commons poor thing</p>
poor thing</p>