Two questions...

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Firstly I live in San Diego and plan on buying a parking space, so that I can drive home if I want to. On the parking part of the housing info I received, they list three permits. A gold parking permit (on campus and also really expensive, which is just unneccessary), A parking center permit and a north university parking housing lot permit. The north university is a little cheaper than the parking center, do any current students know why, is it farther? Also do these two parking centers have roofs or are they out in the open?</p>

<p>Secondly I have a question about the meal plans. There's the Cardinal Dining Plan which gives you 10 meals per week, and then 510 dining bucks for each semester. And then theres the Trojan for like 600 dollars more but allows you to eat anywhere at any time, but does this also mean unlimited meals? Maybe a current student could let me know which dining plan is better. Also if it matter, I'll be living in North next year.</p>

<p>I know these are kind of detailed questions but if any current students could help shed some light on these two areas, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.</p>

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<p>I would also like to know about the meal plans (Cardinal Dining Plan vs Trojan Dining Plan)</p>

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<p>From what ive read from the living at usc booklet the 2700 dollars/semester that you pay for the trojan plan turns into usc dining dollars. So, your 2700 kind of turns into an account that money is subtracted from every time you eat a meal. The advantage of this would be that you could eat anywhere on campus that takes dining dollars rather than being restricted to EVK or Parkside Restaurant.</p>

<p>However, with the Cardinal or Gold plan, you are restricted to eating breakfast and lunch at your choice of EVK or Parkside and dinner at Parkside Restaurant if you live in Parkside Suites and EVK if you live in New/North/Birnkrant and all those other residence halls, and you get 10 of these meals per week. The $510 in usc dining dollars are the same as the ones in the trojan plan and exist to give you some more variety into what you eat rather than eating at EVK and Parkside all the time.</p>