<p>William & Mary, Duke, Davidson, Wake Forest, Emory, Vandebilt, Rice, Tulane would be great options for the OP.</p>
<p>Ok…all you posters have been saying the sun will come out. I’m still waiting. I may have to start taking day trips this summer looking for the sun.</p>
<p>Check out Trinity University in the scenic city of San Antonio, Texas. With 300 days of sunshine a year, San Antonio will provide a beautiful weather with mild winters!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.trinity.edu/departments/admissions/mz3/sanantonio.shtml[/url]”>http://www.trinity.edu/departments/admissions/mz3/sanantonio.shtml</a>
yup, very sunny</p>
<p>Collegeshopping: I just read your first post at the beginning of this thread, then jumped to the end to reply. We’re having terrible weather here in the Northeast this summer! It’s unusual. It’s been gray all spring. </p>
<p>Here’s the funny part: S came home from Rice for the summer. He immediately said, “It’s more humid here than in Houston.” This month he said, “It’s been raining more here than in Houston!” </p>
<p>That being said, spring in New England is not the greatest. However, September is amazing and the summers are bearable.</p>
<p>I love the weather in New England!! Spring is amazing! Summer is hot during the day and, if you’re in northern NE, much cooler at night. Fall is the most beautiful season – cool at night, warm but not humid during the day, and gorgeous. Winter is terrific, especially if you like winter sports.</p>
<p>I’m hoping that by the end of your D’s summer program, she changes her mind.</p>
<p>Talk about the weather: S went to visit Rice during “Owl Days” for accepted students in APril, 2007. We flew out of NYC during a spring “Nor’easter” - the temperature was in the 40’s and the rain was horrendous. I think we were the last flight to leave that day. We landed in Houston in 75 degree weather and saw flowers blooming everywhere. S immediately said, “I like it!” (He is a golfer). We had to tell him to wait until he saw the school before he made any decisions. 
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<p>Of course, my biggest fear about Houston was a major gulf coast hurricane. The school took good care of them during Ike.</p>
<p>^^ My daughter had a similar experience with her Rice visit. In her case it was her audition trip for the music school. She left Michigan (Interlochen) in terrible weather, had delays in Chicago and a terrible travel experience. When she got to campus everyone was wearing flip flops. She graduated in '07.</p>
<p>USC is a fabulous school in beautiful year round weather. What are her interests? They encourage double majors or double minors to expand your options. So…wonderful weather, an exciting big city experience and incredible academic opportunities. My daugher is ecstatic there and turned down Berkeley after researching the opportunities at USC.</p>
<p>Funny. I grew up and went to college in NJ, did my first year of graduate school in the Bay area, and was a grad student and professor in the Boston area and spent 6 years in NY. I hate Boston weather, don’t like NJ weather (though didn’t really realize it until I lived in the Bay area), and loved the weather in the Bay area. But, I’ve had great opportunities to develop professionally that I don’t think I would have had if I ruled out living anyplace with bad weather. [I did rule out anyplace where you need a block heater to make sure your car will start in the winter]. It is idiosyncratic to my field that a) the Boston area is really the world-wide hub of activity in the field; and b) Wall Street is in NY, but in other fields, the center of gravity may also be someplace with bad weather. Ruling out places solely based on weather may limit life opportunities. Would the OP’s daughter turn down a Rhodes scholarship to avoid Oxford weather, which is pretty dreary? Nonetheless, at the college level, I don’t think it is a big deal. The differences between Wellesley and Scripps or Stanford and Yale probably are not big enough (if they exist at all) to outweigh strong weather preferences.</p>
<p>AS a twist my son left montana and went to Calif and says he really misses the change in seasons. Says he hopes to move somewhere there are more changes in the weather. He really misses snow and thunderstorms with the thunder and lightning</p>
<p>She should absolutely NOT consider anything in Maine despite the big 3 - Colby, Bates,Bowdoin. Winter begins late October/early November and ends…when it feels like it. Mid-April?</p>
<p>I hate cold weather too.</p>
<p>My sister (almost said daughter) went to Wellesley and felt depressed and didn’t like the whole experience, in the beginning. One of her major complaints was the weather. However, by senior year she started enjoying being there.</p>
<p>I haven’t applied to colleges yet, but my take on the weather situation is: If it’s a really great school that I really like, such as MIT or Cornell, then I will suck it up for the winter. However, if it’s not an amazing school I won’t apply unless it’s in a good part of the country weather wise.</p>
<p>Collegeshopping, if your D is considering women’s colleges, Agnes Scott should probably be on her new “southern list”.</p>
<p>I second the recommendation of Davidson. My d is an incoming freshman and can’t wait to
get away from the NE winters. I am usually hacking away at a good couple of inches of
ice on my north-facing driveway in early April and can’t wait to visit her instead, lol!</p>
<p>I also have a daughter for whom “no cold weather” is a major factor. Although I’ve been trying to move climate a little lower on her list of priorities, there are so many good schools in the south that I can live with her tentative list. We’re planning on visiting the Florida schools in late July or August, when the heat will be oppressive - if she prefers oppressively hot in summer to a few snowflakes in winter, that’s her choice…</p>
<p>Weather matters.</p>
<p>That said, the Boston area (including Providence) was set to break a 106 year record for the fewest sunny days in June. June is usually lovely in Providence. This year was truly unusual.</p>
<p>A typical March in Rhode Island, however, can make a weather-sensitive person practically suicidal.</p>
<p>OP: I think your concerns and your D’s concerns are perfectly valid. We have a large country and many options. This is a good way to narrow down her list, as long as she’s certain about what she really wants.</p>
<p>My D had Brown at the top of her list, but she also did the Summer@Brown Program and hated Providence. </p>
<p>She just graduated from Barnard and had a very, very happy four years there and in London. She finally wanted New York and New York. Haha. Barnard became her number one choice. She really liked the small school in large University in large city. She did not find the city a distraction. Barnard/Columbia’s neighborhood is no where near as distracting as NYU’s. But NYU’s is more exciting.</p>
<p>Your D may be totally different.</p>
<p>A grey day in NYC in not like a grey day in Providence because NYC seems to pulse with its own color and very little time is spent outside.</p>
<p>However, your D may have discovered she really does love the region she’s from. Nothing wrong with that. You have so many choices.</p>
<p>I think other posters have provided a good lis so I won’t reiterate.</p>
<p>I’m not sure anyone mentioned Trinity University in San Antonio, but it is a bit less selective than some you were looking for.</p>
<p>Rice, Trinity, Vanderbuilt, Duke, Clairemont Colleges, USC, Davidson, Emory, Rhodes, Stanford, Occidental, plus any state schools that appeal – you have very good choices.</p>
<p>Or I would argue that city living in NYC is not very weather dependent, but you and your D may feel differently.</p>
<p>I wish your D luck. I see no reason for your D to toughen up. If it were necessary, I’m sure she could find a strategy to cope with whatever she faced. But why should she have to?</p>
<p>Someone - I never heard of weather allergies until l was diagnosed with a cold allergy last year in my 50s. Same thing…I go out to get the newspaper in the winter now, and break into hives. Weird! </p>
<p>One of my kids just chose to go to law school in the snow belt, turning down Miami because the kid doesn’t like hot weather. Amazing to me!</p>
<p>I had cold allergy as a child - eventually outgrew it. Any exposed skin would break out in hives (between mittens and jacket, for example). Fortunately, we lived in the south. Had one late episode in my 20s in a cold swimming pool…
Hives ALL OVER.</p>
<p>I’m still pretty sensitive to cold.</p>
<p>but it is the other stuff that makes the weather interesting to me:
- looking out and seeing everything covered in white, silent, soft snow
- seeing one of those moist green ozone-saturated expectant pre-storm afternoons
- watching and hearing a truly dramatic summer thunderstorm, rolling and cracking
- having a crystal clear, crisp, fall sweatshirt day with beautiful red/orange trees
- a cool or chilly misty, foggy gray day
- waking up to a morning where <em>everything</em> is covered in a layer of sparkling ice
- a chilly perfect breezy spring morning and seeing the crocus peeking through</p>
<p>These are the kinds of things that keep me from moving to where the weather is “perfect” all the time, although it is certainly pleasant to visit. Everyone views weather through a different lens.</p>