For additional housing charges go to www.smu.edu/housing

The Department of Residence Life and Student Housing should be consulted for nontraditional residence accommodations and rates. For more information, please call 214-768-2407.

Students living in SMU residence halls are required to have a Hughes-Trigg Student Center mailbox. A nonrefundable $85 mailbox fee is included in the room rate. Students newly assigned for the spring term will be charged a $45 nonrefundable fee, included in the room rate.

All undergraduates living in residence halls must have a meal plan.

*Spring term rate applicable only if combined with previous fall term rate.
**Open during winter break

(Flex Dollars are deposited at full value. Flex Dollar purchases are taxed at the point of sale, if appropriate.)

• All resident students must purchase a Meal Plan Dining Membership. First-year resident students are required to have either All Access 7 meal plan membership. After completing the first full year, a resident student may select from All Access 7, All Access 5, Block 200.


• Resident students who are senior- or graduate-level may select the Senior Plan meal plan membership option or the Commuter Plan, in addition to any of the above listed meal plan options.


• Each meal plan Dining Membership listed above is available to nonresident students.


• Members with plans All Access 7, All Access 5, Block 200, Commuter, or Senior Plan may eat in the Umphrey Lee Center (RFoC@Lee) or in McElvaney Hall (Mac's Place) by using membership access swipes.


• All members are allowed to bring guests, provided members are present at the time of transaction. Guests (up to ten per term) of members on All-Access 7, All-Access 5, and Block 200 are admitted by accessing membership guest access swipes. Guests of members on Commuter or Senior Plan are admitted by paying the door entry rate per guest from the member's Flex Dollar account.


• Flex Dollars are stored-value, declining-balance programs that work on the same principles as a debit card.


• Flex Dollars may be used to purchase meals or commodities at any SMU Dining Services location on campus.


• Flex Dollar balances carry over from fall to spring terms. At the end of spring term all unused Flex Dollar balances are forfeited.


• Door rates or residential dining for non-members for both the Umphrey Lee Center (RFoC@Lee) are: $7.50 (plus tax) for Breakfast, $8.75 (plus tax) for Lunch, and $10.00 (plus tax) for Dinner. Rates for continuous service periods between standard-meal periods are calculated at the prior meal-period rate.


• A Dining Membership may be changed through the last day of add/drop, allowing one change per term for all members. (For the fall term the date is August 30 and for the spring term, the date is January 24.) Unless a different meal plan is selected, students automatically will be enrolled in the same meal plan selected for the fall term.

For more information, contact SMU Dining Services at dining@smu.edu.

• PONY EXPRESS is a prepaid stored-value account available to all students.
   
• The PONY EXPRESS account does not satisfy the mandatory meal plan requirement.
   
• Additional amounts other than the ones listed below may be purchased on-line at http://idcard.smu.edu
   
• PONY EXPRESS account holders may present their SMU ID card in lieu of cash to make purchases throughout campus and at selected off-campus merchants.
   
• PONY EXPRESS accounts are honored at all dining facilities on campus at individual meal plan rates.
   
• PONY EXPRESS accounts may be canceled on or before the payment due date. After this time, accounts may not be canceled unless a student graduates or withdraws from school.
   
• PONY EXPRESS balances of less than $25 will not be refunded, and any remaining balance will be forfeited to the University.
   
• Points will be carried over from term to term until a student graduates.
   
• Any credit remaining on the PONY EXPRESS account at the point of graduation will be refunded to the student after all debt to the University has been paid.
   
• PONY EXPRESS accounts with no posted activity over a 12-month period will be closed, and any remaining balance will be forfeited to the University.
   
• A student must promptly notify the SMU Office of Parking and ID Card Services, commonly known as Park 'N Pony, if an SMU ID card is lost or stolen. The ID card will be canceled immediately. A new ID card may be obtained through Park 'N Pony. A $25 fee will be charged for each replacement ID card.