Which Colorado schools have your kids toured and liked? Or mountain towns in general?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

PP. I am a skier. I prefer the Sierras/Tahoe. I would not choose a college based on an extracurricular unless I was an Olympian. Hence the question.

[Anonymous]

CU is fantastic.

[Anonymous]

University of Denver. DC almost went there. And, was offered substantial merit aid.

The 5Cs. Not what you would consider a mountain town but technically there is a mountain and trails you can get to in a few minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

No to university of Utah where the gel, will they get a job in Utah hell no

University of Colorado boulder great school
Fort Collins great!,
Colorado state !
School of mines great
University of Denver good but expensive excellent job trajectory

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

+1.

Skiers prefer to ski on powder, not ice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

No to university of Utah where the gel, will they get a job in Utah hell no

University of Colorado boulder great school
Fort Collins great!,
Colorado state !
School of mines great
University of Denver good but expensive excellent job trajectory

Are you drunk?

[Anonymous]

U of Utah - we know a few kids that are there and they all love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

+1.

Skiers prefer to ski on powder, not ice.

VT skiing is nothing to sneeze at -- those trails require strong technical skills and the skiing can be a lot of fun too. I prefer to ski in CO over VT (who doesn't???) but not enough that I would have picked a college because of that.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mikaela-shiffrin-learned-to-ski-in-vail-she-learned-to-race-in-vermont-1518437093

“You grow up in the East, and you know how to ski on ice,” said Erik Schlopy, a Burke alumnus who skied in three Olympics. “There’s no better training ground than Vermont because it’s icy.”

Anyone who has skied both sides of the United States would say the mountains out West are bigger and better in almost every way. The powder in destination resorts like Vail is the soft, pillowy stuff of skiing paradise. But for ski racers, that’s a problem. They want the consistency of hard snow, and they’ll go anywhere to feel the power of their sharp turns.

Shiffrin didn’t have to go very far. The conditions in Vermont were almost identical to the conditions she would one day encounter across Europe. “The World Cup runs are pure ice,” Schlopy said. “It’s basically a slab of marble that’s a mile long.”

The idea is to reward technical precision, and no skier is as technically precise as Shiffrin, in part because she’s familiar with snow that’s injected with water to feel less like snow. “That happens naturally in the East,” said Griffin Brown, her classmate at Burke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Utah is way better for access to skiing than CU, CSU, CC or DU. We live in Colorado and UU has gotten really popular with kids from our high school the last several years because with the WUE or in-state tuition after a year it's more affordable than Boulder or CSU.

And if you're asking why not Vermont, you're not a skier.

This is the OP and I didn't ask that.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Colorado Springs (Colorado College location) and went to Boulder for college. Colorado Springs isn't close to skiing and is a sprawl rundown town IMO. They don't embrace the college at all.

Boulder on the other hand is fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Nephews and friends attended and loved:
U of Colorado Boulder
Colorado State

Friend loved U of Montana.

[Anonymous]

Would not recommend Colorado college at all. It has a suicide issue, is in the middle of nowhere (there’s not much to Colorado Springs), and has very little campus with a very rich student body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Denver. Just opened new mountain campus.

+1 my kid really liked this school, as did I. Decided to stay closer to home though.

[Anonymous]

Agree with all the above about University of Utah. If settled on Colorado, we liked University of Denver and Colorado State. Not big fans of CU Boulder. CSU actually is more affordable than you might think because they give good merit money - but still not as affordable as Utah once you have residency.

[Anonymous]

Is Colorado Springs a nice area? We have friends that just spent a week at the Broadmoor and raved.