Who is paying for meals for prospective students touring campus?
I know I’ve seen that somewhere before here on CC, maybe in this thread, but which colleges do that?
@dyiu13 “eating mastadon in the dining hall”, that made me chuckle!
@breezey. Good point! I saw an article recently that had photos of those special athlete training tables and the special rooms for them to relax in between classes and practice. Someone is paying for that and it is not those scholarship athletes.
@Waiting2exhale I know I was offered a meal ticket at least twice when touring schools. I think one was at Williamette in OR.
Most places invited us to dine, but mentioned the price when they did.
@Waiting2exhale D16, Grandma and I were all given meal tickets by Baldwin Wallace. D16 was given a meal ticket at College of Wooster.
@breezey Excellent link. I could see an ambitious student journalist doing great work on the same issue on such campuses. Pretty outrageous to be milking the students for meal plans that are designed to profit the school and the food service vendor way beyond the costs of feeding students.
“The College of Wooster”- my husband loves to say that!
Thanks for letting me know, labegg. I’ll have to keep my ears to the ground when I start making rounds again.
@LKnomad: Maybe the admissions people can tell that I can smell hot coffee and a nice veggie platter and would find my way anyway, because I do not believe anyone has ever said anything to me about dining. On their dime or not. Thanks.
And on top of this meal plan price, the school’s Yik Yak is, um, explosive with excoriations of the quality of the Sodexo food served. Sigh. I figure this is just one more of many coming shocks (to the wallet) I’m going to get while moving D16 along the path to and through college. Now I have to find out if the dining hall (traditional cafeteria-style in a “Hogwarts” hall, not a food court) permits students to take fruit or similar supplementals out of the dining room for later. My D16 risies at 6 a.m. every day, no matter what, and goes to bed by 9. So, she’s now going to have to plan which meal of the day M-F is brown-bagged. Maybe she could start a “breakfast club” for the weekends, where a few dormers could cook (microwave?) and eat together. She’s going to have to provide at least 9 to 11 meals for herself each week outside the meal plan. She’s so frugal, unreasonably sometimes, I’m afraid she’ll fail to eat those meals, especially if it means chipping in for pizza.
@waitingtoexhale if I remember correctly, New Mexico Tech actually states on their admissions page that they include a meal ticket with prescheduled tours. I think it was for the potential student only, not family.
Looks like they rate just about everything… Niche has provided a ranking based on student reviews of the food offered at 1,700 universities. “Best College Food”- https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/best-college-food/
My d plans to attend MSU, they are ranked #22. They only have unlimited meal plans with some plans that include guest passes. Basic unlimited plan is $2781/ semester.
I know where I’m going has 19 meals/week which is all of them because it’s brunch/dinner on the weekends not breakfast/lunch/dinner. Hope it works out @dyiu13
My family and I have always had a free meal at any school that I visited. Food prices in general are rising, so I’m not surprised that meal plans are as well. @labegg many of the athletic “perks” are paid for by the alumnae association donations. I wouldn’t be surprised if the food plans subsidize many of the merit scholarships that many of our children are chasing.
Moving along on the “adulting” list. DS is going to the dentist alone. He has done haircuts alone for years. He will be doing his physical alone this summer. Any other ideas of appointment type events I should put on his list?
Congratulations @readingclaygirl !
@lknomad hoping all turns out well on your sons test.
@mysonsdad @LKnomad @collegemom2boys my daughter has been on accutane for 19 days - the side effects are minimal with a few aches and pains (could be normal) and chapped lips. My daughters acne was severe and we had tried every cream, antibiotic and medicine out there. Her doctor did not want her on it for years and she has scars. We seen another doctor and she recommended she get on it asap. At this point my daughter voiced her opinion and even though she is against what she calls poison she is definitely ready to get rid of the acne. I know she has suffered both mentally and physically. We hope there is minimal side effects and this actually works to get rid of it once and for all.
Congratulations on putting down the deposit @Ballerina2016, we still haven’t heard anything from USC, but we are still hoping, but not expecting much.
The doctor didn’t want to put S on Acutane because he said it dries out joints (I imagine they would recover once the Med is stopped) and because golf season is coming up he said S skin would be too sensitive in the sunlight. S hasn’t consistently kept up with the treatment of antibiotics, some cream from a place in Philadelphia that we have to have delivered, and an anti fungal.
All this talk of meal p,and and food has made me hungry, time for breakfast.
@3scoutsmom my daughter has applied to so many scholarships it is crazy. It has paid off for her though. She has applied to many thru fastweb and she has an app (do not have the name right now) that she puts her criteria in and it returns which scholarships she is qualified for. She has applied to a rent a car company(won recently), and she won a national one. There are several real large scholarships she is waiting to hear from but it will not be until March. Also, Amazon(she is a semifinalist and has to complete an additional step and send in by March 1 - hoping for that one), and many other companies have scholarships. She has applied to every major scholarship out there even if she may not be the best qualified as someone told her that they will still look at her application if they do not have qualified applicants. She has been able to use several essays over again and some are very simple applications. She is applying this week to her local electric, gas, club scholarship programs and she hopes to get a few more thousand thru them. So she feels it has been worth the effort even though stressful with everything else going on.
DD applied to 3-5 of those $500 scholarships with no success. I think the reason was that she rushed her essays and also different scholarships looking for different applicants. I have difficulties finding scholarships that merit based only. She did not advance to the next level on Coca Cola scholarship, but won Nordstrom and advanced to semifinalist on Amazon scholarship. That about it on scholarships.
The only scholarship that my D is applying to is one through my H’s work. Its actually a large scholarship ($10k/ yr) and not super competitive because the company isn’t that big and there are four of them awarded each year. Someone in H’s department had a kid that won a few years back with stats similar to my D’s so we are hopeful.
Dentist, eye exam, physical.
I wanted the dentist to make sure they do a bitewing xray so any hidden cavities can be dealt with while she was still home. But D did not know to ask for it when she went alone. So we had to go back another day.
@Cheeringsection, did your son ever have a panorex xray?
My D got her wisdom teeth out summer after junior year. We knew they had to come out and I wanted it done before she went to college.
I also found out on CC here last year that there was a new vaccine for meningococcal disease serogroup B. Apparently the other Meningitis vaccine they get at age 11 and 16 doesn’t cover B (just A, C, W, Y). I had to ask the Ped office for it and they had to order it. Thankfully our insurance covered it.
The vaccine we got involved a series of 3 shots so D got it in June, August and the last one in Dec.
@Ballerina016 Congratulations on the Nordstrom Scholarship! That’s a nice one!