Dining plan question - Stamp Union add-on plan?

kh267
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:56:43 +0000

Yeah, choosing the cheapest meal plan does seem the most reasonable.

If I’m not mistaking, I believe 1 Dining Point/Terp Buck/etc… corresponds to one dollar. If you think about it logically, if you were to run out, using cash/credit cards/debit cards would be the best option. I mean, why would you opt for a plan with more points? Really, you’re just converting cash to the same value in meal points but diminishing your purchasing power by restricting what you can buy with it. Plus, you would have to worry about focus dates, losing points at semester’s end, etc…

EDIT: Actually, now that I see the dining plan rates, it appears that you actually have to pay more per resident point/Terp Buck than it is actually worth. For example, one meal plan costs $1966 for 1175 resident points and 265 Terp Bucks, or $1440 worth of this campus currency. That’s basically paying ~$1.39 for one point worth $1. More the reason to pick a cheap meal plan…