<p>Hello!
Does any of you have any suggestions regarding the clothes the students need for winter in Rochester?
We live in New England and my Son used to go to school in shorts, sneakers and a light jacket( but he was taking the bus).
One of my friends suggested a Canada Goose coat, but the price is sooo high, not sure if it's worth to invest so much in a coat.
How about boots?How bad is the snow in the campus?
What are the other students wearing?
Thank you.</p>
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<p>A warm winter coat is definitely a necessity, but it doesn’t have to be Canada Goose. My daughter uses her snowboarding jacket during the colder weather, with a hat and gloves for the wind chill. I overdid the boots for her freshman year, getting really heavy snow boots that were really too much for everyday wear when going to classes. They usually shovel the walks pretty quickly, so you just need something with good traction and some warmth. She now uses a short, lightweight snow boot for the worst days. Obviously, some winters are worse than others, but my daughter really hasn’t minded the weather too much, and has enjoyed taking snowboarding as a gym class!</p>
<p>My daughter is going into her 5th year and although the weather isn’t great, really bitter cold is unusual. If you live in New England, I’m sure your kid already owns appropriate clothing. And as someone else said, they do know how to clean up snow so getting around campus isn’t a problem.</p>
<p>D spent 4 years in Rochester, and all 4 years, Boston got more snow than Rochester did!
She did get day after day of gray skies due to the lake effect, though, along with cold.</p>
<p>Rochester is cold but not unbearably cold. I would get long pants (jeans etc) and long shirts, sweaters and hoodies you can layer. Obviously, get a warm coat - I had a down jacket and a decently warm trenchcoat. Hat + gloves/mittens are also nice. It’s also good to have boots that are warm/don’t leak water since the snow is not cleared well all the time.<br>
I agree with the above posters - volume is more an issue than the temperature. </p>
<p>The summers are typically way warmer, so if he stays around in the area, he can put the shorts et al to good use.</p>
<p>My son says the wind is much worse than the temperature (or the wind makes the temperature worse). He has a lightweight ski jacket and a quilted jacket that he can wear underneath. He doesn’t have snow boots, just waterproof hiking boots. They are very good at snow removal. I would also make sure he has a small umbrella that fits in his backpack - but a high quality one, because of the wind (my son’s cheapie lasted all of 3 seconds the first time it rained…)</p>
<p>I have lived in Rochester my entire life and plan on going to RIT. The snow is mostly slush and as said above the wind is the worst. Put on a long sleeve hoody and jeans look down and run is the best way to handle it. Boots are not necessary for survival unless we get uncharacteristically large amounts of snow. You live in New England so this will be nothing new. I have also heard that academic buildings are all connected underneath once you get to one, though I can not confirm this.</p>
<p>most of the academic buildings are connected to each other underground but to get from the dorms to the academic buildings, students do have to go outside for a bit.</p>
<p>Thank you so much, all of you, for your feedback.I’ve got him a down jacket and some waterproof boots, I think it should work.</p>