Incoming Wowies; any questions?

AMCdad
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:30:53 +0000

First year students did not have a choice of dining plans last year. There was one plan for the apartments and another plan for the dorms. There may be more options this year with the opening of the new dorms.

My son is currently a student in the dorms. I thought that his meal plan was excessive ($5,000+), but he is on pace to spend it all. However, he has grown weary of the food on campus and SLO has multiple delicious options off campus. Not having a car freshman year limits the food runs he can make, but he manages to get downtown often enough. I’m sure that he would like to have less on-campus money, but the overall same amount of buying power so that he could experience more variety.

Long story short, he wishes that had had $5,000 for food, but that only $3,000 HAD to be spent on campus. If you have meal options for next year, take that into consideration.