<p>You don’t have to move out of Cali completely to get the weather you want, though. Have you considered applying to Berkeley and Davis? Great-quality education at a fraction of the cost you might be spending to go OOS…and plenty of charcoal skies overhead! ^_^</p>
<p>Syracuse University has pretty brutal winters, and while in the Boston area it could be winter and the skies could be clear, Syracuse is always grey and cloudy.</p>
<p>Cornell, Hamilton, Syracuse, Colgate in NY</p>
<p>Bates, Bowdoin or Colby in Maine</p>
<p>Dartmouth in New Hampshire</p>
<p>Middlebury College in Vermont I have heard has cold winters. Phenomenal Liberal Arts College. Check it out if you are into environmental studies or languages</p>
<p>SUNY Oswego’s location seems to be looking bad weather in the face and daring it to do its worst. St Lawrence and Clarkson also seem to be begging for bad weather. I spent a year at the U of Toronto, and it was a tad chilly and gloomy there, too.</p>
<p>Personally I think that you don’t know how huge an adjustment it would be to be somewhere that always has “cold, grey skies.” College is a huge enough adjustment than to be dealing with weather that those of us who are more used to it find depressing at times.</p>
<p>I graduated from HS in West Virginia, and went to college near Rochester, NY (back in the dark ages), and the first winter I was miserable just from the weather. And West Virginia is not southern Cal.</p>
<p>So I ditto the suggestions of Berkley and Davis for you.</p>
<p>uw-madison perfect for you.</p>
<p>If you’re just looking for bad weather, Dartmouth and Williams should be among the reach/mid-reach (depending on your stats) schools in your list. Also, Cornell.</p>
<p>PS: WHY do you want bad weather?! Is this just to be an outcast or something, because it doesn’t really make sense that anyone would find it desirable.</p>
<p>"it doesn’t really make sense that anyone would find it desirable. "</p>
<p>I, too, prefer crappy weather…it takes away the pressure to be having fun all the time. Also makes it easier to study because when it’s 33 degrees and raining, cuddling up with a textbook is about all you can do.</p>
<p>tk21769 ^ (post #20),</p>
<p>You’re being much too generous to Cornell and Colgate by situating them near Albany. Cornell is pretty much smack between Syracuse (57 mi, 63 sunny days/yr), Rochester (91 mi, 61 sunny days), and Binghamton (49 mi, 52 sunny days), and not really all that close to Albany (164 mi). Averaging the three closer cities would give Cornell 57.8 sunny days/year, good for #59 on your list, just narrowly edging out Middlebury to avoid last place on your list. </p>
<p>Colgate is also much closer to Syracuse (40 mi, 63 sunny days) than to Albany (104 mi, 69 sunny).</p>
<p>Williams is much closer to Albany (43.5 mi, 69 sunny days) than to Worcester (130 mi, 90 sunny days). </p>
<p>Yale is located in coastal New Haven, where the weather would be more similar to the nearby coastal city of Bridgeport (21 mi, 99 sunny days) than to the more distant and interior city of Hartford (42 mi, 82 sunny days).</p>
<p>It’s hard to see why you situated UNC-Chapel Hill near Charlotte (139 mi) when in fact it’s located much closer to Raleigh (32 mi), where you correctly placed Duke (28 mi from Raleigh). Chapel Hill and Durham are practically neighboring communities, 11 miles apart; Duke’s weather is no better than Chapel Hill’s, in fact it’s pretty much identical.</p>
<p>I applaud your effort, but your geography needs some work.</p>
<p>Colgate, Cornell, Syracuse in upstate NY. University of Vermont.</p>
<p>St. Lawrence University (NY) but under 3,000 students.</p>
<p>“Bad” is relative, and a matter of perception.</p>
<p>I would recommend you consider:</p>
<p>A place where the sun shines far too little
And where it snows far too much
But theres beauty in it</p>
<p>[This</a> Is on Vimeo](<a href=“http://vimeo.com/23897683]This”>http://vimeo.com/23897683)</p>
<p>OP, adjusting to college can be stressful enough as it is so be sure to take Vitamin D supplements and use a sun light wherever you end up (to prevent SAD - seasonal affective disorder) ;)</p>
<p>bclintock, are you sure that is was the poster who had the geography off, or US News? After all, it looks a bit like a cut and paste.</p>
<p>Go where there is snow then at least you can do outdoor winter sports! It makes it much more attractive. We ski, snow-shoe and snow mobile and it makes the winter more bearable. Syracuse, Ithaca, Cornell, Hamilton, and Colgate are great options.</p>
<p>University of Washington. Rains 300 days a year here.</p>
<p>Check out NAU in Flagstaff, AZ. 7,000 feet alt, snow from Nov-Mar, Grand Canyon, skiing, Sedona all within 30-45 mins. Plus, it’s a day’s drive from Southern Cal if you want to visit family for holidays.</p>
<p>University of Oregon or Oregon State! They are both easy to get into, have strong academics and BAD weather.</p>
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<p>Nope, it was not US News. The geographic errors were mine.
Let’s give it another try, using bclintonk’s corrections, plus a new (more precise) source for Yale (New Haven, CT), Middlebury, and Cornell (Ithaca, NY). Look’s like we do have a new loser (er, “winner” for the BAD weather claim … with respect to sunshine, that is). </p>
<p>
Rank Days USNWR LAC/U School Nearby City
1 186 6 LAC Pomona (Los Angeles, 73% sunny)
1 186 7 U CalTech (Los Angeles, 73% sunny)
1 186 11 LAC Claremont McK (Los Angeles)
1 186 18 LAC Harvey Mudd (Los Angeles)
1 186 23 U USC (Los Angeles, 73%)
1 186 23 LAC Scripps (Los Angeles)
1 186 25 U UCLA (Los Angeles, 73%)
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 30 U UNC (Raleigh)
11 111 25 WakeForest (Raleigh)
14 110 20 U Emory (Atlanta, 60% sunny)
15 109 9 LAC Davidson (Charlotte, 62% sunny)
16 105 18 LAC Grinnell (Des Moines, 59% sunny)
16 105 13 U JHU (Baltimore, 57% sunny)
16 105 16 LAC US Naval Acad (Baltimore, 57% sunny)
19 102 17 U Vanderbilt (Nashville, 56% sunny)
20 101 6 LAC Bowdoin (Portland, 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)
24 100 14 LAC W&L (Richmond, 63% sunny)
26 99 3 U Yale (New Haven, 56%)
27 98 1 U Harvard (Boston, 58% sunny)
27 98 28 U Tufts (Boston, 58% sunny)
27 98 4 LAC Wellesley (Boston, 58% sunny)
27 98 4 U Columbia (NY, 58% sunny)
27 98 7 U MIT (Boston, 58% sunny)
27 98 15 U Brown (Providence, 58%)
27 98 26 LAC Barnard (NY, 58% sunny)
34 96 21 U Georgetown (DC, 56%)
35 95 8 LAC Carleton (Twin Cities, 58% sunny)
35 95 26 LAC Macalester (Twin Cities, 58% sunny)
37 93 2 U Princeton (Newark)
37 93 3 LAC Swarthmore (Phila., 56% sunny)
37 93 5 U Upenn (Philadelphia, 56% sunny)
37 93 9 LAC Haverford (Phila.)
37 93 30 LAC Bryn Mawr (Phila.)
42 90 2 LAC Amherst (Worcester)
42 90 9 U Dartmouth (Concord, 54% sunny)
42 90 14 LAC Smith (Worcester)
42 90 17 U Rice (Houston)
42 90 26 LAC Mt. Holyoke ((Worcester)
47 84 9 U UChicago (Chicago,54% sunny)
47 84 12 U Northwestern (Chicago,54% sunny)
49 82 12 LAC Wesleyan (Hartford, 56% sunny)
50 75 29 Michigan (Detroit, 53% sunny)
51 73 19 Notre Dame (South Bend)
52 69 1 LAC Williams (Albany,58%)
52 69 12 LAC Vassar (Albany)
52 69 16 LAC US Military Acad (Albany)
52 69 18 LAC Hamilton (Albany, 58% sunny)
56 66 23 LAC Oberlin (Cleveland, 49% sunny)
57 63 21 LAC Colgate (Syracuse, 46% sunny)
58 59 4 LAC Middlebury (Middlebury, 49% sunny)
58 59 23 U CMU (Pittsburgh, 45%)
60 53 15 U Cornell (Ithaca, 49% sunny)
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<p>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>
<p>[New</a> Haven New Haven County CT historical weather trends - Homefacts.com](<a href=“http://www.homefacts.com/weather/Connecticut/New-Haven-County/New-Haven.html]New”>New Haven, CT Weather | Homefacts)
[Middlebury</a> Addison County Vermont average temperature, sunshine and precipitation data - Homefacts.com](<a href=“http://www.homefacts.com/weather/Vermont/Addison-County/Middlebury.html]Middlebury”>Middlebury, VT Weather | Homefacts)
[Ithaca</a> Tompkins County New York average temperature, sunshine and precipitation data - Homefacts.com](<a href=“http://www.homefacts.com/weather/New-York/Tompkins-County/Ithaca.html]Ithaca”>Ithaca, NY Weather | Homefacts)</p>