Replying to January 4-9 PArk/Bird/alta ADVICE!!!

A couple of buds and I are coming to SLC jan 4-9. After searching threads, we were thinking we should do Snowbird/alta Friday, SAt, Sunday, then park on Monday. My logic with that is bird/alta shouldnt be as busy as park will be on the fri-Sun, and park will be less crowded if we go monday. Also i found that for $164 you can get a 3 day pass to alta/bird combo. I have found a $64 deal for a day pass to park from some ski shop. Any one know of any better deals, like maybe student discount or something? Or maybe even going through one of the universities out there and making afake utah university ID card to get thier price? I am open to suggestions. Thanks, and despite buffalos rep for snowstorms, its sucks here, but theres nothing like grass skimmin in late Decemebr!- not