Meal Plans

For the 2025-2026 school year, members of the Classes of ’26 and ’27  will continue to choose from a 2/Week Plus, 4/Week Plus, 6/Week Plus, 8/Week Plus, 10/Week Plus or All Access Meal Plan. Pricing for these plans is found below.  All members of these two classes are required to choose at least the 2/Week Plus plan, whether living on or off campus. 

Each of these plans comes with a set number of swipes that may only be utilized at Vail Commons. Each week on Sunday morning the swipes for the week are reset; unused meals do not carry over to the following week.  Each of these plans also comes with an amount of Dining Dollars which can be used at any campus retail location or at Vail Commons.  Any unused Dining Dollars at the end of the fall semester carry over to the spring semester, but unused Dining Dollars at the end of the academic year do not carry over to the following year.

When a student exhausts their meal swipes for the week, Dining Dollars may be used to visit Vail Commons at a deeply discounted price. To utilize Dining Dollars at Vail Commons is a great economical strategy to stretch meal plans. Explore Vail Commons door prices.

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New first year students and members of the Class of ‘28 will continue to automatically be enrolled in the All Access Plan (see the special note below for Class of ’28 students who are joining a Patterson Court Organization that provides a meal program). No action is required on the student’s part to initiate this assignment.  Note that members of the Class of ’28 that receive permission to live off campus and do so will have the option of choosing from the smaller plans. 

The All Access Plan provides unlimited visits to Vail Commons at any time it is open and the opportunity to use up to six swipes each week at any campus retail location with a value up to $12 per swipe.  These retail swipes are called Meal Plan Equivalencies and are reset to six each Sunday for the next week.  Davis Café, Qdoba, The Commons Market, Chick Fil A and Summit Outpost all accept Meal Plan Equivalencies.  The All Access Plan also comes with $200 in Dining Dollars that can be used at any dining location on campus including vending machines.  Any unused Dining Dollars at the end of the fall semester roll over to the spring semester, but Dining Dollars remaining at the end of the spring semester are forfeited. 

During college breaks when Vail Commons is closed, students on the All Access Plan will enjoy three Meal Plan Equivalencies per day that can be used at Davis Café or any other retail operation open during breaks.  Exceptions to this are the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving Break, Easter Sunday, and the semester break in December and January.

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Members of the Class of ’28 who join a Patterson Court Organization that provides meals, will still be billed for the cost of an All Access Plan, but their plan assignment will be a combination Patterson Court/Dining Services plan which will provide the equivalent of up to 20 meals per week. Class of ’28 members of these houses will not be billed by their houses for their meal plans; those charges are covered by the All Access Plan payment. 

However, Patterson Court organizations may still bill their members for other fees separately, like social or national dues. These charges will differ from house to house and are not covered by the meal plan payment. For students in this category, they will simply notify their house of the meal plan they will take from the house for the fall semester and this information will be shared with the appropriate campus offices (CatCard Services and the Controller’s Office). No action will be required by the student to establish the partner Dining Service meal plan. Please note that members of these houses from the Classes of 2026 and 2027 will be billed directly by their houses.

Retail dining locations anticipated for the 2025-2026 school year will include the Davis Café in the College Union, Qdoba, Commons Market (convenience store), Summit Outpost, and Chick Fil A (opening date to come).

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Meal Plans and semester pricing for the 2025-2026 school year are:

All first and second year students (Classes of 2028 and 2029) will be billed for the All Access Plan.

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