<p>Ah, once again, good luck with all those sweaty pool parties in Palo Alto.</p>
<p>I definitely am. I don’t even wanna apply to U of MN anymore cause the weather during the winters are so bad.</p>
<p>@schmaltz, for me, anything above 40 is warm lol</p>
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<p>That’s true; it’s all relative. Stanford sounds pretty hot to someone from, I don’t know, Maine! For me, it’s not so much about temperature as it is about quality. I don’t mind variety and a little rain - I come from a four-season region and have a hard time imagining only one season (especially if it were one really long, really hot season!). I think 60ish is ideal. It’s jacket weather, and I love jackets. It’s turn off the AC and open the windows weather. It’s ride your bike for an hour and not get sweaty because the air is cool weather (at least compared to MD, where 99% humidity assures that is not possible even when it’s 45). It rains, but not too much. It’s sunny, but it’s not ridiculously hot. It’s always cool at night. It’s not so dry I can’t breathe, but it’s not so humid I can’t breathe either. Etc. etc.</p>
<p>Not really. I like warm weather and I like snow, so it doesn’t matter to me.</p>
<p>If anyone wants wild weather, go to Missouri State in Springfield, MO. According to some sources, that city has the strangest weather in the US. In Missouri, it can get to 100 in the summer and dry as a bone, or 0 in the winter with eight inches of snow. Can be 80 and sunny one day, 60 and rainy the next. No place like MO for weird weather.</p>
<p>As for me, I’d personally prefer warm over cold, but it’s not going to make or break my decision when I will end up choosing my college in the next few years. Living in St. Louis, a city with weather like I described above, I’ve seen both extremes, to an extent.</p>
<p>While I want to get out of the south I have to admit I’m pretty acclamated to its climate. Weather isn’t going to be a huge factor but it is definately a priority. I mean in Texas we don’t even know what winter clothing is!</p>
<p><em>Yay we got a little snow today!</em></p>
<p>I was at Cornell in March and it was 20 mph winds with flurries and six inches on the ground. It was 70 and sunny at Duke. I would definitely look at schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, Rice, William & Mary, Davidson, Tulane, Washington & Lee, Wake Forest as well.</p>
<p>I’ve lived in southern California my whole life where the weather is generally amazing. I find under 70 degrees to be cold. I applied to a lot of schools in colder places, and I REALLY want to go OOS so I have no idea what I’m going to do. I’ll probably need to invest in a whole new wardrobe, as well.</p>
<p>So yeah, weather’s a pretty big concern. I may just end up staying in California for that very reason, who knows.</p>
<p>leila - There is the University of Miami. Can’t get much further away from SoCal and weather is warm. Or there is a place like Tulane in New Orleans where the weather is decent most of the time (temp wise), but it does get chilly sometimes so you get to invest in some great sweaters.</p>
<p>My D promised that she would not take into consideration the weather of any school she looked at. However, she quickly eliminated any cold weather college and chose a college in the South for the “academics”. I think I got suckered. I can’t complain too much since she selected a great school.</p>
<p>Although weather is not unimportant, a good many of the colleges that CC folks seem to want to attend have snowy weather–namely the Ivies and other prestige schools in the Northeast. And, somehow, in the discussions about these schools I’ve never heard snowy weather come up as a negative that would keep someone from attending them if they were admitted. Just an observation.</p>
<p>My Ds best option so far is in Florida. She likes the school but is complaining because she is a snowboarder. I keep telling her she won’t have as much time for that in college. If I had the chance to get out of Chicago and head to Florida, there would be no question!</p>
<p>I am. I wouldn’t want to go somewhere where there is hurricanes or earthquakes. Or tornados, really. But they’re like almost everywhere. Is that considered weather?</p>
<p>The furthest south I went in 12 applications was Pomona/Scripps, but Southern California is pretty different from the East Coast equivalent. Back in the East, I only went north from Delaware… of course, I ended up at the sole school on my list that is in the SAME climate (O fickle Mid-Atlantic). Go figure.</p>
<p>In search-terms, I ruled out anything further south than North Carolina due to heat and parts of the Pacific NW (e.g. Reed) because I don’t think I could deal with the hassles of constant rain/mist.</p>
<p>Well, earthquakes are not weather, but the others are. Or at least caused by meteorological factors. About the only part of the country that rarely gets any of those is New England. But then you have blizzards.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>as a californian native, ive never had to endure extremely cold weather. i was just wondering… in extremely cold places (like the northeast) in the winter, are all the classrooms and dorms heated so that students can practically wear t-shirts and not feel cold at all, provided they stay indoors?</p>
<p>For those looking to have some enjoyment in the sun for at least part of your college years, one way to get a sense of local warmth is to look at the date for the home opener in baseball for a school. Here are a few:</p>
<p>Feb 19 Stanford</p>
<p>Feb 23 Rice</p>
<p>Mar 26 Penn State</p>
<p>Apr 2 Northwestern</p>
<p>Apr 6 Dartmouth</p>
<p>Me I like four distinct seasons. Just when you are sick of one season (and this winter has been a WHOPPER!), you can suddenly be surrounded by the beauty of another season. Change is healthy. Promotes optimism. Too much of one thing is not a good thing. (No lewd jokes please.)</p>
<p>But hey, Keilexandra…after nearly 4,000 postings, dear, have you decided where you are attending college? : = ))</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>as a californian native, ive never had to endure extremely cold weather. i was just wondering… in extremely cold places (like the northeast) in the winter, are all the classrooms and dorms heated so that students can practically wear t-shirts and not feel cold at all, provided they stay indoors?</p>