<p>Dorms: Can anyone review the freshman dorms?</p>
<p>Dining Plans: Any suggestions for a hungry 18 year old athlete?</p>
<p>i wrote a review of the freshman dorms in the first page of the big long post i wrote a while back. go with towers. if your hungry (and you’ll go to the cafeteria for breakfast), you might as well go with the unlimited mealplan.</p>
<p>Thanks…just found the dorm review. </p>
<p>It has been a very long time since I have been in college and we barely made it to our first class in the morning , does anyone actually go to the dining halls for breakfast?</p>
<p>My suggestion is the blue plan. Gives you more flexibility with how you spend the dragon dollars so you can go to the new dining terrace (Currito, Subway, and Chick-fil-A) or other food places on campus. If you run out of meals during the week you can pay with your Dragon dollars to get into the dining hall. You probably won’t want to eat there 2 times a day everyday anyway. I only went around once a day my freshman year.</p>
<p>Thanks SarahJudith, I will have my son look at the Blue Plan.</p>
<p>I do agree that the blue plan is probably the way to go. There are certain exceptions if you can make good use of the unlimited mealplan… eg: usually ROTC and some sports like Crew are up early in the morning every day so you usually end up getting in 3+ meals a day. You can’t go wrong with the blue plan though and it is a lot more flexible, especially now with all the new dining dollar options.</p>
<p>Platinum Plan $1,692 per term
12 meals per week at the Handschumacher Dining Center and the Take3! Program
- $550 Dining Dollars
- 5 Dining Center Passes
- Surprise Pack</p>
<p>Gold Plan $1,620 per term
Unlimited meals at the Handschumacher Dining Center and the Take3! Program
- $200 Dining Dollars</p>
<p>Blue Plan $1,620 per term
12 meals per week at the Handschumacher Dining Center and the Take3! Program
- $475 Dining Dollars</p>
<p>The descriptions of each plan are a bit confusing.</p>
<p>What are dining dollars?</p>
<p>The cost difference between the 3 plans is just $72…</p>
<p>what am I missing?</p>
<p>If the cost is just $72, then why don’t you guys recommend Platinum? I’m not trying to be a jerk and question your opinions, I’m just curious about whether that extra stuff like the 5 Dining Center Passes/Suprise Pack are actually worth the extra $72 because I’m not really sure what those two things are.</p>
<p>Also, the meal plans say that the 12 meals per week are at Handschumacher Dining Center. The only college campus I know pretty well is Northeastern and they have multiple cafeterias that are a part of a couple residence halls. Is there only one main cafeteria at Drexel that everyone goes to?</p>
<p>Also, here’s the website I just found for the full Meal Plan stuff and just dining in general:</p>
<p>[Drexel</a> Campus Dining](<a href=“http://www.drexelcampusdining.com/plans.html]Drexel”>http://www.drexelcampusdining.com/plans.html)</p>
<p>The platinum plan is new, I did not have that option my freshman year. However, I also never even went through the $475 dining dollars I got on the blue plan either (can be spent at the other dining locations besides the main dining hall like Taco Bell, Starbucks, Currito, Chick-fil-A, Creese cafe, etc) and I ate probably ~5-6 meals/week in the dining hall. If you plan on going somewhere like that to eat everyday then by all means get the platinum plan, but I think it’s slightly excessive and unnecessary to have that much extra money on your card. You can always just spend cash too if necessary at those places, though you will be charged tax.</p>
<p>We only have one main dining hall, yes.</p>
<p>So, the dining dollars can be used at all places other than the main dining hall? My son would probably spend the Platinum $550 just at Starbucks…if that is the case I guess for the extra $72 that would be the way to go.</p>
<p>Sockher mom: as an incoming freshman girl, these are my opinions on the dorms I visited at the Accepted Students Day today and yesterday.</p>
<p>Millenium (Honors dorm): This dorm is the newest and most expensive dorm because it’s honors housing for next year. I HATED THIS DORM lol. First off, I’m a little bit scared of heights and pretty scared of elevators. This building is curved very funny and everything inside felt weird and off center. The hallways were extremely curved and it felt claustrophobic, not too mention it’d be hard to meet people because there really is no “hall life”. Bathrooms were individual which was nice, but again that makes it harder to meet people. There was a lot of concrete on the ceilings and walls that wasn’t painted or anything. I think it was supposed to look modern and cool but to me it was ugly. Also the windows were floor to ceiling in the common rooms and slanted outwards which I couldn’t get anywhere near because it literally made me feel like I would fall out. This would be my last choice for dorms not even considering the extra price. My parents didn’t like the building either.</p>
<p>Kelly: The room they showed us was, interesting. It was longer than most rooms apparently because it was on the end, so it was also thinner. It was extremely small and not what I was expecting. I wasn’t allowed to see the bathrooms but the kitchen was nice, not including the fact that it was pretty tiny.</p>
<p>Towers: I heard this was the best dorm and had extremely huge kitchens. It may be because we were on a boys floor but I was actually pretty disgusted by the kitchen. It was old, dark, and run down. The stove was randomly stuck into the middle of a wall and every appliance looked dirty and broken. The couches were strewn around the room and it was overall highly unpleasant. The actual dorm room seemed much bigger than Kelly’s, but the kitchen/common area was such a turn-off that I really didn’t care about the room size much. However, I suppose if I bring a little fridge/microwave (which I hope to do) then the kitchen doesn’t matter too much. The room size was a pretty big bonus.</p>
<p>Myers: This was definitely my favorite dorm. It was only three stories so most people take the stairs, though there is an elevator. I liked this because of my dislike of elevators and I feel a little safer living closer to the ground lol. This was also the only dorm with a courtyard in the middle. The courtyard had benches and grills which is nice for people to cook in when the weather is good. The floors are co-ed which means about half of the floor is guys and half is girls which doesn’t really bother me since we still have separate bathrooms. Also it gives me a chance to meet everyone quickly, not just other girls. The rooms were a nice size, bigger than Kelly’s and about the same size or maybe a tiny bit smaller than Towers. Also it is directly next to Kelly, so it’s close to the little 7-11 type store and a Subway that you find at the bottom of Kelly. The kitchen was small but way nicer than Towers (more like Kelly’s) and the common room was a bit bare but nicely kept. I saw both a guy’s and a girl’s rooms and both were nicely decorated and seemed like it would be nice to live in. I talked to a guy who had lived in both Towers and Myers and said he liked Myers better because it had been more social, though this could have just been a matter of chance. For those it interests, Myers also has learning communities where your roommate and neighbors are in the same major as you so you share interests and can study/do homework together. However, I was told that most students in Myers are not in a learning community.</p>
<p>Overall I would rank:</p>
<ol>
<li>Myers</li>
<li>Towers</li>
<li>Kelly</li>
<li>Millenium</li>
</ol>