What’s the matter with the two seasons of Palo Alto?(A rainy season counts to me.)
It gets much colder and windier there, too, than some other places in California.
@WorryHurry411
I have a brother who goes to a small university in Palo Alto, and he just seems to love it! it has a Beautiful campus, stellar academics, and clear blue skies… the only downside is its acceptance rate is 4.7 %
…and that he got lost on the beautiful campus of that other really large university there!
Ok, why do 4 seasons matter when you’re really only there for two of them? Fall and spring? Maybe a bit of winter for spring semester?
DH and I are having an amusing discussion right now on which time of year to take D17 up to New England (where I’m from) to show her the not-good side of New England weather.
I say July because it’s hot as heck and there’s no AC. D17 LOATHES being hot.
He says December because it’s cold, dark and dreary and as a Southern kid, she really has no idea of what REAL dark, cold and dreary truly is.
We’re trying to go look at schools at their crappiest-if she still likes them, we know we have a winner.
@MotherofDragons, Worcester in January should do the trick or maybe Quincy two days after a snowstorm once the beautiful white stuff has been shoveled into mud and all the trash has been plowed to the side of the road.
^^Yeah, @NEPatsGirl , that’s his nefarious plan-he wants her to stay in the south with us, lol.
@MotherofDragons, if a kid is going to school in northern New England, s/he is going to experience winter. 
Usually late November through March. Winter break isn’t THAT long.
No winter: Arizona.
I have always thought that Northwestern University was the perfect university (ignoring weather, of course). Excellent academics and faculty, pretty campus, location on a lake (sailing!), beautiful town of Evanston, and the L right there to take you to a world-class city in 25 minutes.
@MotherofDragons, I practically begged D to look at schools in warmer climates but she insisted that she be near a ski mountain (her skiing in the past was limited to about twice a year because of distance/price). Don’t you know she ended up in upstate NY and they had no snow this winter lol. She managed one half day of skiing by going an hour north. She applied to only one school in TN (ED) but was rejected as expected…too bad, would have loved to spend time in Nashville.
UVa
Berkeley
Univ. of Miami
SMU in Dallas
Faber College
Stanford, UC Berkeley, the Claremont Colleges, UCSB and Rice.
Just wanted to point out that Hogwarts is a ** Boarding School /B not a college! Do not a good choice for this thread, LOL. Carry On.
@suzyQ7 that brings up a fascinating thought-where do wizards go to college?
Somebody poke Rowling, quick! Next series! Get on it!
Already done, to a large extent: Lev Grossman’s Magicians trilogy involves an LAC of magic somewhere in the Hudson Valley, and largely takes place there, in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia (renamed “Fillory”), and in Philip Pullman’s Cittagazze (ruined and renamed I don’t remember what). Grossman’s Brakebills doesn’t exactly line up with Hogwarts, however; it’s sort of an anti-Hogwarts. There’s a lot of booze and sex. People are sorted, but it’s by major, not house. There’s also a really snooty entrance exam, which not all the magically gifted take successfully.
Rowling is clear in the Harry Potter books that Hogwarts is the end of normal education for 99% of wizards. A handful who want academic careers may pursue graduate education elsewhere (one of the European schools, maybe?). But even among the Hogwarts teachers, very few seem to have any formal schooling beyond the secondary level.
Technically, the OP stated school not college (though I concede that it is implied of course by the fact this College Confidential). For that matter OP never mentioned real eithe. Lol
I remember reading that book-I don’t think I finished it, though. My memory is it was kind of a bummer to read-lacking the joy and wonder of Harry Potter.
^^ And the television adaptation was AWFUL.
Well, yes. It wasn’t written for 10-year-olds.