<p>Also what is the best and cheapest room and meal plan to have. My only concern is to get a room with a bathroom. The platinum, gold and silver meal plan seem really expensive.</p>
<p>The platinum, gold and silver plans are same except for spartan cash and free lunch passes for friends or family added to the platinum and gold plans. The spartan cash can be used for laundry and places and food in and around campus.<br>
From what I can see it looks like Akers regulars rooms have four people to a room and the apartments are 2 people per room? Maybe someone else knows.</p>
<p>I know nothing about the akers apartments…sorry! The meal plans are all expensive, but they are required if you live on campus (unless you are at williams/grad halls) so I’d go with the cheapest one (silver). Gold and platinum are only useful if 1, you plan on having a lot of guests over and want to be able to give them food passes, and 2, if you want to have easier access to laundry and restaurants that accept sparty cash (and not have to carry change around to pay for these things).</p>