What I do not like about this school is that they force people to buy their expensive meal plans. I tried to opt out in 2011 because while they tout their lower tuition price, if you add the $1200 per semester for the meal plan that is REQUIRED if you're a freshman, that makes it non competitive. I tried so hard to convince my daughter not to go to this school for that sole reason, but she was adamant so I gave in. When I asked the people how can they demand people spend $2400 for a person to eat two meals a day 5 days a week and they said " We want parents to feel good knowing their kid will be eating well while they're away at college." BULL! I told her if you really were concerned, I guess you don't worry about weekends because the $1200 per semester only covered 10 meals a week (2 meals 5 days a week). Parents should have the option of providing their kids with their own method of eating. Do you think they're so stupid where as they're going to starve to death because they're away from home? Then she said, "Oh, well. That's true." It's nothing but a rip off to get more money. Now it's even worse. My daughter's roommates (3) dropped their meal plans because now the school is asking for a whopping $1800 per semester. That's $3600 to eat for 8 months!!! I don't spend that kind of money in a year to feed us both. SMH If this had been the case two years ago, my daughter would have definitely had to have found another school because this $3600 could pay for another year of tuition. I'm so sick of these schools trying to rip people off any way that they can....either tuition hikes, dorm costs, and now they'll get you by FORCING you to eat their food. I hope they lose a lot more than they gain because it's just a scam.