Malcolm Gladwell on the role of food in college choice

Some breakdowns @citivas:

Amherst
Room $7,430
Board $6,280
$13,710 total R&B
https://www.amherst.edu/offices/controller/student-accounts/tuition-and-fees

Conn:
Room and Board $13, 615
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=400

Bates:
Room and Board $14,105
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=125

Colby:
Room and Board $12,610
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/data/college/college_pg03_tmpl.jhtml?schoolId=233

…the Collegedata figures are probably a year or two old.

These are all 21 meals a week plans, or unlimited, or very similar (Amherst offers a plan for non-first years with no breakfast but more cash to use at the retail places, but it costs the same as the full meal plan at the dining hall). I went to Vassar myself and almost never ate breakfast in the DH so that would have been the plan for me :slight_smile: