<p>Learning to deal with weather is good preparation for learning to deal with life. If you can’t deal with a little snow what happens when something much more difficult comes along? There are many bright sides to any sort of climate. Crisp snow and blazing blue skies are beautiful and all you need is a coat to enjoy it. It’s good to get out of you comfort zone. I have lived all over the US and the weather had very little impact on how I enjoyed the place.</p>
<p>I’ve spent most of my life living in the northeast and midwest, and I have to say that the happiest years of my life were those I spent in Southern California. I LOVED the weather there - it absolutely affected my outlook on life. My opinion is that if you have a choice on where to live, choose a place with weather you like.</p>
<p>Outside of Texas, I’d look at William & Mary, Duke, UVa, USC, Occidental and the Claremont colleges The beauty of southern California is that you get all that sunshine without humidity!</p>
<p>^^ Good for you, barrons. But that acclimation came naturally to you–I bet you didn’t have an immediate visceral hatred of a particular type of weather. Why subject yourself to that for four years when there are other equally good options?</p>
<p>Don’t give up on the NE just yet.</p>
<p>FWIW, four years ago S1 attended a 3 week college summer program on the west coast. Three days in he called to say he was hopelessly bored and couldn’t see how he was going to last 3 weeks. Three days later he called to see if we could change his plane ticket to stay an extra 10 days for the extended session.</p>
<p>Beware of the smog at the Claremont Colleges. My d doesn’t want to apply there for that reason - and she hates LA.</p>
<p>Best school + best weather + near a major city + most friendly and relax people = Stanford.</p>
<p>Maybe she’s just saying she misses home or family, and being far away isn’t as wonderful as she thought. My D moved far away for school, and REALLY struggled with the distance the first semester, although we would not have guessed it would happen, and she didn’t really let us know how she felt while going though it. OTOH, by second semester it was much easier, and as many will tell you, she is missing being there about now.</p>
<p>We have 4 distinct seasons in the mid-south, but without all the snow and bitter cold.
There is plenty of time in life to suffer climates that don’t appeal to you without picking one for college. I guess I should have made myself go to NYU because I don’t particularly like living in a big city??? As we say in running “HTFU” (Harden the “f” Up).</p>
<p>Honestly, we have been socked in with this weather for a number of weeks and it has been very gloomy for June, especially with this nor’easter hanging off the coast. But if this weather depresses her she will positively hate the winters. This weather is indicitive of winter weather, but with snow and cold. Temperature wise, this is about what to expect during the “warm” school months. </p>
<p>For what it’s worth though, I have been depressed with the weather here.</p>
<p>My D is just the opposite…she hates the Texas weather (which I love). She has ruled out any schools in Texas or south of where we live.</p>
<p>One quick PSA: although I’d don’t agree that a student needs to “toughen up” and live in weather she hates (this isn’t the Marine Corps!), if your child is in a cool climate and just can’t get warm, have her thyroid checked. I was always freezing *in Texas *and it was a thyroid issue.</p>
<p>I PROMISE the weather is not always like this! (I’ve lived in RI all my life.) For some reason, we are having unusually depressing weather right now. Usualy at this time of the year, it’s sunny, 80, and not a cloud in the sky. The worst weather we get is in the winter, and yeah, that might upset someone from Texas. I would definitly not cross Brown off the list because of the stupid weather we’re having right now! Come back when the weather is nice and the ocean is sparkling, and go visit Newport, and your daughter might change her mind.</p>
<p>University of Texas at Austin sounds like a good fit and will be cost effective too.</p>
<p>^^ The dreary weather right now, while not representative of June, is certainly more than representative of, say, November.</p>
<p>I’d disagree with that ^^. November is usually fall-like weather. It starts in December, and ends February if we’re lucky, but usually March or early April.</p>
<p>Definitely Claremont McKenna. It’s a great school and the weather and location are hard to beat. Both the beach and the mountains can be a day trip.</p>
<p>Stanford might have comparatively better weather than New England, but it’s still gray and gloomy here in the winter.</p>
<p>"To her, it is cold, grey (which yes, they are having some weather issues in RI right now, but I stressed to her that it is temporary, like all weather) "</p>
<p>It’s temporary in the summer, but fairly permanent in their long, dreary winters…</p>
<p>If she doesn’t like the weather, that’s an excellent reason not to apply to colleges in the NE , Midwest and Pacific NW. Saying this as a person who suffers from seasonal affective disorder. My older S hates sunny weather because it gives him headaches. He is very happy in the Pacific NW.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, even in-state tuition at UT is pricey for a state school.</p>
<p>I think you’re lucky that she is realizing this sooner rather than later. And I disagree with the posters who say that she should tough it out or harden up. No need for that - it’s OK to eliminate schools because of climate. My son - who has lived entire life in mid-Atlantic area - HATES the heat and refuses to look any further south than Virginia. That’s OK with me; while so many people here look forward to summer, I just endure it and spend the summer longing for fall and winter. 
Echoing some of the other suggestions: Claremont schools, Stanford, UCBerkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Duke, Davidson.
Good luck!</p>
<p>has anyone mentioned SMU?</p>