Thank you! Yes, I think she’ll have good opportunities to cook for herself by at least her junior year at most places. In some cases her sophomore year. Some residence halls we’ve visited have full kitchens that freshman can use, too. So she’ll be able to put her cooking skills to use (and expand them) throughout college. It’s that first year in particular, when she’s on a required meal plan and trying to learn new routines, that she’ll need a school to have its act together and provide accommodations if needed. If they require that you buy the food, they need to work with you. If they’ve put protocols in place with good availability, flexibility, and variety, all the better. She fully expects food to be somewhat of a headache the rest of her life. She just wants to find a system that doesn’t treat her as an afterthought or that makes life any harder or riskier than it has to be.
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