<p>After the dining plan is used up what do you use? the husky card?</p>
<p>Yes, if you run out of funds on your dining plan, the halls will begin to draw from the money on your husky card (they put a $35 “laundry deposit” on it at the beginning of each quarter, as part of your housing bill). </p>
<p>However, if you do run out, you can also add money directly to your dining plan very easily at any time by going to myuw and then clicking on “Access your husky card account” on the front page. </p>
<p>You should also be aware that although dining funds carry over from quarter to quarter, any surplus at the end of spring quarter is forfeited (although money on your Husky Card account never disappears). For this reason, I advise all freshmen to at least start with the bronze plan since it has the lowest risk of losing money at the end of the year. If you run out of money extremely early on this plan, then bumping up may not do much harm, but most of my friends who started on Gold in fall and then opted for bronze the rest of the year still had to work hard to use up all their extra funds from fall.</p>
<p>EFS students lose their meal funds when autumn quarter starts.</p>
<p>Good catch, diogenes. That also made me remember that dining funds are wiped out at the end of summer quarter as well if you live in the halls over summer. So I guess the better explanation would have been that dining funds roll over fall –> winter and winter –> spring, but no other time.</p>
<p>would silver be the average plan that people choose?</p>
<p>Question: So money that is put into your Husky Card is not forfeited at the end of the year?</p>
<p>Onibaku: I’m not sure. Like I said, all my friends chose bronze after the first quarter since they had a lot of money left over. You can change it after each quarter, so you’ll figure out if it’s too much or too little no matter which plan you start with and can adjust from there. </p>
<p>VideoPro: Correct. Your Husky Card has two accounts on it: the dining account, and the husky card account. The dining account is what you preload with whatever dining plan you choose, and the husky card account is loaded with $35 each quarter and is taken at the bookstore for instance. The money on your husky card account will never disappear as far as I know (maybe at graduation?), whereas the dining account behaves as discussed above. </p>
<p>Hope that was written as clear as it sounded in my head.</p>
<p>compactrunner … well put, and clear.</p>
<p>Yes. Choose bronze plan to avoid forfeiting any (meal plan) money you may not use. If you run out of your “meal plan” money before the year is up, you can add funds to use to continue dining on campus should you choose to. You will not have to forfeit those funds at the end of the quarter/year. Used to be you could dine at certain establishments off-campus using your Husky Card money but the UW has discontinued that program effective this past August 1. Hopefully they will bring it back.</p>
<p>As far as I can tell, there is absolutely no benefit to having a more expensive meal plan since it’s all just the same money as the stuff on your Husky card.</p>
<p>^^^exactly.</p>