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<p>Ah, yes, the obligatory disparaging comment about Minnesota winters. Look, the OP applied to St. Olaf, Middlebury, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin, as well as schools in Chicago and upstate NY. I would take that as pretty good evidence that the OP is not daunted by winter, which makes the swipe at Minnesota entirely pointless.</p>
<p>And isn’t it odd that we never see such gratuitous disparaging comments about winter in Middlebury, which is similar to winter in southern Minnesota except that Middlebury gets about twice as much snow and about half as many sunny days?</p>