Colleges with BAD weather?

College Search & Selection
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<p>To some students constant rain, hail, sleet, or snow is deal breaker- I live in (southern) California and I don't think I can live with the perfect, sunny weather much longer. I need cold, grey skies. </p>

<p>I got a 2130 on my SAT without any practice, took an SAT prep class, and will retake the SAT next Saturday.
My GPA is 3.85 UW/4.5something W.
32 ACT first take
780 SAT II Literature
750 SAT II Biology
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<p>I'm looking for schools in cold areas that match my stats
THANKS :)</p>

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<p>What sort of college are you looking for? Liberal Arts, professional, big, small, etc.? Because that really makes a difference</p>

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<p>I definitely don’t want a small school. The smallest college I would consider is probably something with 3,000 students. I don’t want to go to a huge college either. A sense of community is important to me, so colleges like Boston University aren’t appealing because of how big and spread out they are. I probably want to go to a liberal arts school. I don’t want to go to a suburban school.</p>

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<p>Well, if you want every type of weather come to Chicago. From bitter cold with overcast skies in January along with snow storms, (not as bad as NE but still big), thunderstorms and small hail on rare occasion. Of course during the summer average temps are in 80s to low 90s.
Uchicago and Northwestern are pretty tough to get into without solid academics and dedication to extracirriculars. Check them out though. Your out of state so it’s pointless to recommend any of the Big Ten except maybe University of Michigan (the best of the big ten with univ Illinois and university of Wisconsin Madison right behind them$ but I don’t think you want those cause they’re huge. Selective medium size schools In cities. Not too Many of those though good luck</p>

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<p>Consider schools in Seattle? Haha you’ll get temperate misty skies</p>

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<p>So schools in the midwest/Texas will get awesome thunderstorms (think boom clash BANG!). It’s awesome. I would think Rice or Northwestern or the University of Chicago.</p>

<p>Those schools also get snow (except Rice, of course…though since they are in Houston, there are chances they get some of the bad weather associated with hurricanes).</p>

<p>Northeast weather is something people complain about (no clue why, it’s not that bad, but still very dynamic). In New York, you get temperatures in the 90’s and even 100’s in the summer, yet you can get blizzards in the winter (think NYU, Columbia, etc.).</p>

<p>For New England, Boston is your best bet for wicked weather. The rain, like in New York, is pretty drizzly in the spring though and not the “boom clash BANG” of the midwest. Yet the snow can be epic. Even classes can be cancelled. Then you can get really nice fall and spring. Think MIT, Harvard, and Tufts.</p>

<p>So if you want cold, I suggest looking at Northwestern, Tufts, U of Chicago, Columbia, etc. etc. But realize that even in cold places, it can still get hot (weather has been getting weirder). The distinction is that weather is dynamic.</p>

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<p>Univ of Rochester</p>

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<p>Thanks so much guys all these schools seem like good fits for me :slight_smile: I’m still open to suggestions, but I’ve been checking out the schools that were suggested and they’re awesome!</p>

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<p>RPI 010char</p>

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<p>In western Washington, where there are alot of gray days (and less rain than people think), there’s Seattle University, University of Puget Sound, and Evergreen College. </p>

<p>In eastern Washington, where it gets really cold and snowy (and blazing hot in the summer), there’s Whitman, Whitworth, and Gonzaga.</p>

<p>These schools may not fit your other criteria; for example, I don’t know how large they are. But I do know my Washington weather, having lived in both Seattle and Richland. I prefer rain to sun too! :)</p>

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<p>You might want to reconsider your no-school-smaller-than-3000-students dictum as there are many very good LACs in New England that get the best and the worst of New England weather. Take a look at Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Hamilton, Middlebury, Colby, Bates, Skidmore. For the more selective schools, you’ll have to bring your ECs into better focus.</p>

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<p>Grinnell, Carleton, U of Chicago, U of Michigan, MacAlester, U of Vermont - Burlington, Harvard, Yale, Williams, … all get their share of cold, grey skies.</p>

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<p>How much can your family afford?</p>

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<p>University of North Dakota. Look no further son.</p>

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<p>Northwestern/UChicago: FREEZING cold in the winter. You don’t even know!</p>

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<p>Michigan! Winter starts in late october and can last till April. It’s cloudy almost everyday and snows a lot. Northwestern and UChicago as well.</p>

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<p>Cornell U (reach), Case Western Reserve (good merit possibility) would fit the bill, I think.</p>

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<p>University of Alaska Fairbanks. </p>

<p>[Fairbanks</a> Weather - Alaska - Average Temperatures and Rainfall](<a href=“http://countrystudies.us/united-states/weather/Alaska/fairbanks.htm]Fairbanks”>Fairbanks Weather - Alaska - Average Temperatures and Rainfall)</p>

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<p>LOL!! THere are plenty of areas that have their share of bad weather-- You want cold. Wisconsin gets cold. You want rainstorms and humidity- consider the south (Fl, La, Tx, etc)</p>

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<p>USNWR top 30 National Universities and top 30 National LACs,
ranked by average days of sunshine per year (column 2).
The lower in the list, the gloomier (based on sunshine alone*).
Column 3 shows the US News ranks.
Sources:
[World</a> Facts and Figures - Weather Facts and Statistics (days of sunshine)](<a href=“http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php]World”>http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/weatherfacts/numbersunny_city_desc.php)
[NOAA</a> (% avg possible sunshine)](<a href=“http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/pctposrank.txt]NOAA”>http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/online/ccd/pctposrank.txt)</p>

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Rank ...Days...USNWR...LAC/U...School...(Nearby City, % sunshine)
1   186 6   LAC Pomona          (Los Angeles, 73% sunny)
1   186 7   U   CalTech         (Los Angeles)
1   186 11  LAC Claremont McK   (Los Angeles)
1   186 18  LAC Harvey Mudd (Los Angeles)
1   186 23  U   USC                  (Los Angeles)
1   186 23  LAC Scripps         (Los Angeles)
1   186 25  U   UCLA                    (Los Angeles)
8   160 5   U   Stanford            (San Francisco)
8   160 22  U   Berkeley            (San Francisco)
10  127 26  LAC Colorado College    (Colorado Springs, 69% sunny)
11  111 9   U   Duke                    (Raleigh)
11  111 25  U   WakeForest          (Raleigh)
13  110 20  U   Emory           (Atlanta, 60% sunny)
14  109 9   LAC Davidson            (Charlotte, 62% sunny)
14  109 30  U   UNC                 (Charlotte, 62% sunny)
16  105 13  U   JHU                 (Baltimore, 57% sunny)
16  105 16  LAC US Naval Acad   (Baltimore, 57% sunny)
16  105 18  LAC Grinnell            (Des Moines, 59% sunny)
19  102 17  U   Vanderbilt          (Nashville, 56% sunny)
20  101 6   LAC Bowdoin         (Portland ME, 57% sunny)
20  101 13  U   WUSTL           (St.Louis, 57% sunny)
20  101 21  LAC Bates                   (Portland)
20  101 23  LAC Colby                   (Portland)
24  100 25  U   Uva                 (Richmond, 63% sunny)
25  100 14  LAC W&L                 (Richmond)
26  98  1   U   Harvard         (Boston, 58% sunny)
26  98  7   U   MIT                 (Boston, 58%)
26  98  4   LAC Wellesley           (Boston, 58%)
26  98  28  U   Tufts                   (Boston, 58%)
26  98  4   U   Columbia            (NY, 58% sunny)
26  98  15  U   Brown           (Providence, 58%)
26  98  26  LAC Barnard         (NY, 58% sunny)
33  96  21  U   Georgetown  (DC, 56%)
34  95  8   LAC Carleton            (Twin Cities, 58% sunny)
34  95  26  LAC Macalester          (Twin Cities)
36  93  2   U   Princeton           (Newark)
36  93  3   LAC Swarthmore  (Phila., 56% sunny)
36  93  5   U   Upenn           (Phila.)
36  93  9   LAC Haverford           (Phila.)
36  93  30  LAC Bryn Mawr           (Phila.)
41  90  1   LAC Williams            (Worcester)
41  90  2   LAC Amherst         (Worcester)
41  90  9   U   Dartmouth           (Concord, 54% sunny)
41  90  14  LAC Smith           (Worcester)
41  90  17  U   Rice                    (Houston)
41  90  26  LAC Mt. Holyoke     (Worcester)
47  84  9   U   UChicago            (Chicago,54% sunny)
47  84  12  U   Northwestern    (Chicago,54% sunny)
49  82  3   U   Yale                    (Hartford, 56% sunny)
49  82  12  LAC Wesleyan            (Hartford, 56% sunny)
51  75  29  U   Michigan            (Detroit, 53% sunny)
52  73  19  U   Notre Dame  (South Bend)
53  69  12  LAC Vassar          (Albany, 58%)
53  69  15  U   Cornell         (Albany)
53  69  16  LAC US Military Acad    (Albany)
53  69  18  LAC Hamilton            (Albany)
53  69  21  LAC Colgate         (Albany)
58  66  23  LAC Oberlin         (Cleveland, 49% sunny)
59  59  23  U   CMU                 (Pittsburgh, 45%))
60  58  4   LAC Middlebury          (Burlington, 49% sunny)

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<p>*Caveat: Naturally, it takes more than dark skies to achieve a truly gloomy collegiate atmosphere. For that, I highly recommend my beloved alma mater, the University of Chicago. Along with a relative lack of sunshine, Chicago (“where fun goes to die”) adds grey, gothic architecture; howling winds; long, bitterly cold winters; difficult academics (largely focused on impenetrable books by old, dead white guys); few fraternities or sororities; no D1 sports (not much of anything else worth watching besides chess and fencing); and surrounding urban blight. A vampire could be happy there (if only the women were better-looking). Sure, #60 Middlebury gets even less sunshine, but the students all look like J. Crew models; the college even has its own well-used ski slopes. By comparison to the University of Chicago it feels like Disney World, without the lines.
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