<p>How's the food options at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Good, but expensive. The students can tell you more but as a parent I can tell you that my son, who eats a lot, has run out of dining dollars on the biggest meal plan. Unlike many colleges, it’s not a one price eats all deal, you pay for every item you eat. And my very least favorite part is every student must have a meal plan, even if they live off campus!</p>
<p>That said, DS speaks of a sushi bar and a good range of very good quality food.</p>
<p>Thank you. Could you give me more actual examples? BTW, I am on financial aid (I will send my IDOC this Monday).</p>
<p>In addition, how much is the meal plan?</p>
<p>There are 3 plans, I believe the COA includes the middle one. You have X dollars to spend each term and they do roll over to the next term during a school year. Not sure what the plans are dollar wise.</p>
<p>So if you go to the Collis sushi bar you can spend $25, which is taken from your plan. But you can go to the hop and eat french fries for $2. If you drink three sodas you spend those dollars as opposed to at other schools where it’s just part of the one price meal.</p>
<p>There are many dining options from a kosher dining room to fast food at The Hop, to a grill…but you need to figure out what you can afford without running over your meal plan if money is an issue. I get the feeling there are lots of kids living on fries by the end of the term.</p>
<p><a href=“Http://www.Dartmouth.edu/~dds/Dining%20Locations.htm[/url]”>Http://www.Dartmouth.edu/~dds/Dining%20Locations.htm</a></p>
<p>There are four plans. The BIG green plan, $1300 per term, the Green Plan $1100, and the little green plan $900. If you’re living off campus, I think your meal plan can go as low as $600.</p>
<p>There are actually a lot of students who have tons of extra money on their meal plans (smaller girls). Make friends with them.</p>
<p>I’ve also seen some guys who had blown through their $1300 meal plan in 3 weeks.</p>
<p>The DBA (declining balance account) rolls over between terms, but not at the end of the year. Most people who have a lot of extra money will just stock up on non-perishables from the dining halls, or sometimes you’ll get lucky with someone who is going to be off the rest of the year, and so they’ll treat the 15 people behind them on line to a free meal.</p>
<p>The food is supposedly really good for a college campus, and I have no complaints at all. There are some people who are very picky eaters who wont like the food. There are some people who absolutely love the food.</p>
<p>Dartmouth food is consistently ranked tops-- many options and good stuff-- if you like Maine Lobster from time to time</p>
<p>My son took the middle level eating plan as part of his financial package. Every term there was money left over, and a big push to buy lots of junk food at the store to use up the money rather than waste it. The rollover to the next term option must be recent.
I can see how some guys, particularly athletes, could blow through the standard meal plan pretty quickly. But when I visited, son or his friends always bought me meals, so they weren’t worried about running out.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think rollover started last year. Can’t recall exactly. Sometimes towards the end of my time at D. Also, I don’t think anybody has said this yet, but you can go negative if you run out of food, and they will just tack the extra onto your (or more likely your parents’) next college bill…they won’t make you starve to death if you run out of DBA early.</p>
<p>The food is generally excellent, although the selection is a bit on the small side and I found myself eating out more towards the end of terms as I got bored with the campus food. I would recommend double bacon cheeseburgers at the Hop, Philly cheese steaks at Food Court, and stuffed omelets (I always got mine with ham, cheese, and mushrooms) at Collis. Oh man, so good…I could go for all three of those right now.</p>
<p>What are the off-campus food/shopping options near the campus?</p>
<p>Quizno’s, Subways, a couple of Chinese places, a Thai place, a burrito place, a couple of pizza places (EBAs ftw!) and a couple of Indian places. Also Molly’s, Murphy’s, Canoe Club, and the Hanover Inn restaurants, which are more upscale to varying degrees. More options are available in West Lebanon and White River Junction, but you need a car to get there.</p>
<p>As for shopping, assuming you were referring to groceries the Co-op is your best (and closest) bet. It’s about a 10 minute walk from campus.</p>
<p>sorry, Xan, but Quizno’s and Subway are no longer here.</p>
<p>There’s a gusanoz (“mexican”)in the old subway haunt (not as good as the westleb version) and a yama (Korean/Japanese) in the new complexes on South St (about as good as the westleb version).</p>
<p>They’re both gone? Over the course of the past year? Do you know why? Actually, the Subway had been having problems for a while, but I am still surprised regarding Quiznos.</p>
<p>what exactly is the Co-op? Is it just a grocery store?</p>
<p>very nice grocery store with some prepared foods as well. I think it’s a bit more upscale than the usual supermarket.</p>
<p>Dartmouth has been ranked high on food. Lots of options on and off campus.</p>
<p>no idea why it’s gone … all i know is it’s not there … :-(</p>
<p>That speaks as much about the quality of the on-campus options as anything. People are satisfied enough with the College-owned dining halls that they don’t see the need to frequent off campus restaurants. The only exception to this is EBA, but that’s because it stays open (and delivers) later than Food Court.</p>
<p>I personally find the options somewhat limited, but then again I am an extremely picky eater. The quality of the food is overally quite good (I compare the quality of the mozzarella sticks/fries/grilled cheese to that of the Friendly’s restaurant chain) except for the pizza. However, Ramunto’s, a short walk from campus, has excellent (and relatively inexpensive) pizza. EBA’s isn’t bad either and delivers until 2:10am or so. The food court in Thayer Dining Hall is open until 1am.</p>
<p>Don’t be put off by how expensive the campus food is. The standard meal plan comes out to over $16/day, and so (especially if you take advantage of the NUMEROUS free food event out there) it’s hard to run out of money.</p>
<p>I agree with buffalowizard: I don’t know how people use up the $1300 plans in a term, let alone in three weeks. I was always on the smallest plan, ate what I wanted to, and always had at least $150 left at the end of the term. The plans are what you make of them, and judicious use of free food opportunities can’t hurt.</p>