Meal plans for on-campus students

cromette
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:36:32 +0000

No. I believe you can eat more than one meal a day…you can just only have 7 in any given week. I think I’m waffling between the Fish plan and the Gig 'Em plan. There’s some conflicting information on the webpage. On the Dining Plan page it says that meal plans CANNOT roll over from one semester to the next. On the FAQ page it says they CAN…just not from academic year to academic year.

So if they CANNOT roll over, then if you don’t use your dining dollars, you lose them. So it doesn’t really pay to overbuy by a large margin. However, it might actually turn out to be more economical to buy a larger plan and leave a little money on the table than to buy a lesser plan and have to purchase MORE dining dollars to make up the difference because as the plans get larger, the cost per meal goes down.

You can figure about 16 weeks in a semester, so 112 days max (probably less, because you’ll have holidays and maybe some weekends where you’ll go home). If you eat 2 meals a day, that’s 224 meals…so that kind of helps to gauge.