<p>Still nothing… Thought it might be geography related as we are in the Midwest
After waiting all week, probably not the entire explanation…</p>
<p>Glad to hear there still may be hope. We are deep southeast. Thanks for the reply</p>
<p>Nothing in today’s mail either and Monday is a holiday.</p>
<p>No official offer of admission yet either but son received this email early this morning:</p>
<p>"You are invited to join Loyola Maryland on Facebook!
The application was created for admitted students just like you. Use it to begin building a support network of new friends today by connecting with other students who share your interests.</p>
<p>Join our Loyola Maryland virtual community and start making connections today!"</p>
<p>Maybe just a USPS issue… He will check with Ad Con next week…</p>
<p>We just received the same email for “accepted students” so I guess the mail is the problem…would assume they are accepted if the email states is was sent to accepted students</p>
<p>Daughter got the same email and has yet to get an acceptance letter. I called admissions on Thursday. She said to wait til Monday and then call if she has still not received her decision letter. We are assuming she has been accepted because of the e-mail.</p>
<p>william95, congrats on acceptance and congrats on your outstanding credentials. Did you receive merit aid?</p>
<p>Thank you!!
I haven’t heard anything about merit aid yet, I believe that I should find out sometime in early February. I applied to the Honors Program as well and haven’t heard about that either</p>
<p>Acceptance received in today’s mail. Now the wait for merit aid.
Congrats to all accepted.</p>
<p>Congrats! You had a long wait</p>
<p>OK, so I am trying to compare apples to apples, but I do not understand the cost of food at Loyola. Does anyone know what the average cost is for a kid for a year?</p>
<p>about $3000/semester for what equates to 3 meals/day… from their dining calculator on the site </p>
<p><a href=“Page Not Found - Loyola University Maryland”>http://www.loyola.edu/department/dining/payment/calculator.aspx</a></p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman and we have given her $3000.00 per semester, and found that it is way too much. We put the 3000.00 in her dining acct. and ended up transferring half to her Evergreen acct… That acct. can be used in the bookstore for books etc. and a few establishments off campus. When I called the student acct. office they were very surprised with the amount of money she had in her acct… and felt $1,500- 1800.00 is plenty for dining.</p>
<p>DS is a junior and to date we put a total of $6000 on the Dining Advantage Plan including study abroad dining last semester. DS does go out on occasion, and also buys groceries at Wal-Mart or Costco. I doubt we spend more than $3000 per year total and DS eats well.
DS has had a kitchen all 3 years. I really like the Loyola dining plan as it is ala carte and no meals are paid for and missed. Also, funds left on the dining plan and Evergreen card do not expire and are reimbursed at graduation.
At first, I thought the dining options at Loyola were limited, but now I really like this plan and believe we have spent a lot less than other plans at comparable schools. The kitchens in the suites are a huge asset.
Good luck to all with your college decisions. Loyola is a terrific choice.</p>
<p>My D is a soph & we hate the dining arrangements! I think perhaps parents of boys like them better! ; - ) </p>
<p>She says it discourages people from meeting each other casually, they way you do at “traditional” college cafeterias. If you do not eat at Boulder often because you are trying to save $$, you are separated from your friends who do. She sees a social divide between kids whose families are struggling to send them to school, and the “haves”, because of this. She is not one of the struggling ones, but knows kids who are. </p>
<p>I can appreciate the dilemma Loyola found themselves in because nearly all of the students having kitchens & thus little reason to go for a “traditional” dining plan, but I don’t think a Sodexo food court was the right answer. </p>
<p>This year D says she feels better & more alert when she has not been eating at Boulder for a while—the food is greasy & I suspect it has additives & things that are not great for you. She now cooks almost all her own food with her roommates (3 of them) and this year has been interesting–one will not eat beef, one is trying to lose weight and does not want much carbs, one has never eaten an awful lot of what our family has taken for granted all our lives (kielbasa, risotto, most veggies, etc). But that is what you do in college, learn how to share living space with other humans. </p>
<p>Last year we put a couple hundred $ at a time on the Dining card but this year she has a job & is responsible for her Boulder money herself (part of why she is cooking more I think!). </p>
<p>I do not believe in loading one of these declining balance cards upfront because $2k looks like lots of money to a freshman & they are tempted to slide the card for a lot of smoothies, etc. </p>
<p>Incidentally, it is no accident the smoothie stand & Starbucks are right in front of the door to the dining room. </p>
<p>For the groceries—at the beginning of the year we drop her stuff in the room & then go out to the not-very-distant Walmart (with supermarket) and start her off on fresh food. We also buy non-perishable items at home when they are on sale that we know she likes/needs. We do that closer to the end of summer, and also during the year when we are going to visit, bring her home for a holiday, etc. </p>
<p>We are not the only ones—every time students come back from a vacation or long weekend, the minivans are lined up outside the dorm entrance with parents hauling in bags of groceries! A real puzzler is all the cases & cases of bottled water they drag across the parking lot—haven’t they ever heard of Brita?</p>
<p>There is a convenience-dairy-place (Royal Farms I think) a block from campus they can walk to for eggs & milk. Sodexo will try to sell you on the mini-grocery thay have on campus but they overcharge like crazy there. </p>
<p>If your child cooks a lot you will spend way less on food at Lyl than at other schools. However, there are the other drawbacks. Every place has its pros & cons!</p>