<p>would you not attend a college because they have dorms without air conditioning? </p>
<p>yes, I know schools up north or in the mid west get cold at a certain point, but 2-3 total months of super hot nights in the beginning and the end of the school year can be brutal.</p>
<p>We’ve toured many dorms in the midwest and most do not have air conditioning. August could be warm for a couple of weeks, but May usually isn’t an issue. Bring a box fan and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I’m in Providence, and I definitely wouldn’t say that AC is a must. None of the dorms here have it, and I’ve rarely been extremely uncomfortable. August is typically the worst month - by September, it’s cooled down, especially at night. May is sometimes warm, but rarely too humid. 2-3 total months would be a stretch - most of the warm times are during the summer. I’m currently living in an apartment near campus without AC in the Providence summer, and even now I’m doing just fine with a fan.</p>
<p>Basically, AC shouldn’t be a part of your search.</p>
<p>Several dorms at my school don’t have A/C, fortunately I’m not in one. However, it is in the mountains, so the average July high is only in the upper 70s/low 80s.</p>
<p>If it was a school somewhere in the Midwest or New England where summer temperatures still often exceed 90 degrees, I would want air conditioning in my dorm.</p>
<p>Doesn’t having no A/c also mean you’d have to leave your windows open at night to get the cool air (in the warmer months)? That seems like it could be a safety issue to consider. Living in Florida, I just can’t imagine not having A/C long term, and we’ve seen on the news, just recently how people in areas we don’t usually think of as hot, struggling with heat waves. Maybe this doesn’t happen so much in May, but perhaps in August. I would also think no A/C would mean no possibility of summer school.</p>
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<p>I attended a summer session at a college in New Hampshire every year for 12 years - no AC and it was always hot as Hades (and humid)! Brought my own fan. NONE of the dorm rooms were on the ground floor. Never had a problem.</p>
<p>And I did this as a middle-aged adult . . . youngsters are definitely more adaptable than I was!</p>
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I agree with you! even if it is hot the first 5 or 6 weeks of school and the last five or six weeks, it can be very miserable! I have spent time in ohio,ct,ma, nh etc in the summer and it is brutal without ac! it is not just this year! many schools in the northeast/midwest are slow to upgrade the dorms! some of the forward thinking schools have joined the 21st century.
10-12 weeks is a lot of hot days and nights</p>
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I don’t think I would live somewhere where I did not feel safe leaving the window open at night. That’s a bigger problem than lack of AC, in my book.</p>
<p>For our dorms, all the ground floor windows have grates over them for safety, but there are rarely issues.</p>
<p>I’m from northern CA, where very few homes have AC, and I’m doing just fine. I think it’s a matter of what you’re willing to deal with. Yes, my apartment is warm. It just means that I spend less time at home and more time out doing things. A few weeks ago, I visited a local culinary museum for the AC and had a great time doing something I never would’ve done otherwise.</p>
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How is that a safety issue?</p>
<p>it is not cold the entire school year, so why bother with heat in the dorms? maybe everyone could bring a space heater?
bruno14 would you rather go out because you want to not because your dorm or apartment feels like an oven?</p>
<p>Not an issue here in PA since it starts to turn cool in mid Sept (right after school starts) and doesn’t really start to get hot until after school lets out the first week or two of May.</p>