New Students Beware of Meal Plan!!

bulletandpima
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:25:45 +0000

We bought the basic for DD and in the end of her fall semester she was buying trays of rice krispy treats because they told her it would not roll over.

VT meal plan is like any other college of this size in the country.

They are no better and no worse. You just need to determine how much food they really eat.

Our DD eats about 2 meals a day, she is not a 3 big meal a day person, so she had a ton of money left over and that is why the basic plan worked well for her.

What I find interesting is that Chaz stated it took them @ 4 yrs to figure out the system. Two things jump into my mind with that comment.


4 yrs? Seriously, the way the system is set up is by semesters, not annually.
The avg VT student does not live on campus for 4 yrs because of dorm availability, thus, how many seniors are still living on campus and eating there? Few!


For incoming students just be realistic. If you don’t eat breakfast than you probably would be better off with the min plan and more Hokie bucks. If you eat 3 meals a day than go for the max plan.