Stanford Meal Plan

runeknightx
Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:02:30 +0000

Ok guys, so I’m really picky with numbers so I calculated out all what we were actually getting from the different meal plans. And from what I’ve discovered, it seems like the 14mls and 10 mls are slightly ripping us off. Well here goes:

So we have 3 meal plans, 19meals/wk, 14meals/wk + $420/yr, 10 meals/wk + $750/yr

All 3 plans cost the same amount

I have a chart of how many days are in each quarter and so forth. Here goes. The 1st quarter has 85 days and costs $1834. 2nd quarter 76 days and costs $1640. 3rd quarter has 73 days and costs $1578.

There’s a total of 234 days costing $5052. dividing this, we have an average of ~$21.59/day

The price/day for each of the 3 quarters is as follows
Q1: ~21.58
Q2: ~21.58
Q3: ~21.62

There’s barely any deviation here. 3rd quarter seems a lil bit more expensive. I broke down the # of weekdays and weekends and I’m guessing quarter 3 costs a bit more because there seems to be more weekdays. Not a big deal.

Now here’s the part that has me confused…

Comparing the 19meals with the 14meals. we’ll just look at 1st quarter since all 3 should be about the same. quarter 1 has 85 days or 12 weeks and a day. Ignore the day; it won’t factor much of a difference. the 14meals/week will have 5 meals less a week and through the whole quarter ~60meals less. now you are given $155 meal plan dollars this quarter. But if you calculate the average cost of each of these meals they’re paying you not to eat, it is a measly $2.58.

I’ll go on and compare the 19meals and the 10 meals. This time you’ll have 108 less meals by choosing the 10meals/week. But you are given $270. That calculates to $2.50 for each meal. Even less money to not eat a meal!!

So i’m hella confused. If you look at the stanford dining page here: [Stanford Dining - Meal Plan Options](http://stanford.edu/dept/rde/dining/meal_plans.htm) you can see that breakfast costs $5.72, lunch costs $7.32, and dinner costs $9.15. I mean at the very least give us $5/meal right? and the 19 meals/week, are they assuming that we eat brunch on weekends?