'Tis the season. Hopefully this is an allowed link…pictures of college campuses with snow, some beautiful and some well… judge for yourself.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kdries/the-most-winter-wonderful-college-campuses
Notice how these shots don’t always appear in the school promotional materials? You’d think it was never winter in some of these places based on the viewbooks.
D1 went to school in Boston. D2 is here in SoCal. D1’s senior year was the 2015 snow apocalypse. One morning, deep in the middle of winter, D1 sent a family text with yet another depressed report about total snowfall and the temperature with wind chill factored in. D2 responded with an Instagram picture taken from just outside her dorm room, showing the school (outdoor) pool with students lounging in swimsuits. In the distance, blue skies and mountains. She superimposed the temperature in big bright numerals (high 70’s? low 80’s? something like that).
D1 decided to take a job in California. Thanks, D2! 
They skipped tons of schools with prettier winter pics. Why that one of UWGB when UW-Madison is so much more scenic, for example…
For Williams, they chose a building that isn’t actually part of the college. And definitely not a photo from this winter!
The Dartmouth picture is ancient. Bates is pretty gorgeous in the snow.
My kid goes to a beautiful winter college and does feature those shots. They also send out photos and little videos periodically.
Definitely not a fan of the east coast/mid west colleges in winter. I don’t know what it is exactly but the grey skies, snow, and gothic architecture look too bleak to me. To each their own I suppose!
The moose wins…
The Chicago one is exactly as I remember…even the amount of snow walking down that path is etched in my memory from so many winter trips to visit the beau. And yes…the moose wins. The Northwestern picture looks like a prison…and it’s not. I am drawn to winter in Colorado and Utah and now that I’m back in Michigan I miss the sun in the winter so very much and definitely need my “west and sun” fix each winter.
These are some of my favorite images of a school in winter (Bates College, Maine-January Puddle Jump).
The Oberlin picture reminds me of my campus visit there. We drove there during winter break of my junior year of high school. A lake-effect snowstorm overtook us on the highway, and apparently the last station we’d fueled at didn’t turn its diesel supply very fast and was still selling summer blend, which thickened enough to clog the fuel filter. Car stopped between two interstate exits, Dad walked back to the one we’d just passed and found a service station to call a tow truck. Then he walked back and zipped my pet rabbit into his coat front because I wouldn’t leave it with the car and you can’t carry a rabbit loose in your hands in a blizzard and it didn’t have a cage you could carry and it was going to be hours for the tow. (That car may have been the one without seats or seatbelts in the back - the bunny napping under the driver’s seat was the least of our safety worries!)
Eventually we arrived. You don’t get much of a tour during winter break with a foot of snow covering the sidewalks. I applied anyhow, and was accepted! (But did not end up there; I went to a different snowy school an even longer drive away.)
The northern schools look great in winter. Most of the time it is sunny, not cloudy. Many, or most, do not have Gothic architecture (that is depressing in any season). Traying down hills, snowball fights, snowmen- all sorts of childhood activities relieve the daily routines. Besides- the weather is conducive to studying!
Florida weather is NOT ideal- too hot and to spend time outdoors on campus during much of the school year. There are leafless trees that look dead among the green. Boring without hills or four seasons. Colleges with summer. fall winter, spring changes are gorgeous and the young can handle the weather better than we old folks.
I don’t miss snow but it can be gorgeous to look at- they did some great ones on that site but missed many much prettier campus sites.
I agree with you about Florida weather but I must point out that UF in Gainesville has lots of hills and at least 2 seasons 