Pacific Northwest schools

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Go, Ducks!

It rains here and is gray for a long stretch from fall through early spring. Not much snow. Last winter wasn’t so bad but the magic of summertime is not matched weather-wise by the rest of the year!

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Washington and Oregon better.
Puget Sound nice.
The east side of WA (Pullman) or ID (Moscow) has different landscape than west side culturally too.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you like Reed and Lewis and Clark?

Both were pretty but too small and one kid said they both had a weird vibe. Kids loved Univ of Oregon, Univ of Washington, Puget Sound and Gonzaga. Surprised most by Oregon State.

I went to Gonzaga. Completely different vibe in Spokane than UW.

Definitely but kids still liked both

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I’m in Seattle after many years in the Midwest and in the east coast. UW is beautiful and the weather by it is not terrible during the school year. The hard thing about here is that the weather is so changeable especially if you are by the lake or the sound. I can wake up and be socked in by misty low clouds at my house but go to my kids’ school that’s 300 feet higher and by another part of the lake and it will be sunny and lovely. It’s the kind of place where we always have 5 different kinds of shoes and jackets for each person by the back door. The nice thing is that unless we’re in the mountains, it’s never cold enough to want a hat and gloves in the winter.

The kids I know who come here for college all plan to stay. The job market for younger adults is great and it’s a fun place to live because of the mix of urban amenities, urban outdoor activities, and more adventurous outdoor activities a short drive away.

I think if you’re coming from the east coast for a visit, I would look at Uw, Oregon State, and Oregon but also Whitman and University of Puget Sound in addition to others’ suggestions above.

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Oregon state is an awesome place. I lived in Oregon and wash for 15 years before moving here and if we were still there I’d encourage my kids to look at it. The alumni base are great people as well. Too bad the pac 12 fell apart. Uw has a lot of good programs, but you have to deal with Seattle. Oregons alright.

In oregon you get less claustrophobia than up in puget sounds too. The permanent winter cloud clearance is much higher. In Seattle/tacoma it tends to sit at about 1000’. The eastern side of the cascades is beautiful though, but get really cold.

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Anonymous wrote:It is awesome for three months. Then it mists and rains for 9 months straight. Bigger issue for people is the lack of light in winter.

PNW native here. It really depends on where you are in the PNW - Eastern Washington (WSU, Gonzaga, Whitman, etc) are not like this at all.

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Anonymous wrote:It is awesome for three months. Then it mists and rains for 9 months straight. Bigger issue for people is the lack of light in winter.

People also fail to understand the claustrophobia that comes with the mists and rain. Beautiful vistas, natural landscapes and sky of summer are transformed into a confining world of low cloud ceilings and reduced visibility.

PNW native again. This is completely not true.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you like Reed and Lewis and Clark?

Reed and Lewis and Clark are great options but there are quite a few very good schools in the PNW, especially if you are not caught up in the whole "hunt for prestige" nonsense.

Whitman is a great school modeled after the NE SLACs. Solid endowment, good teaching and a great campus backed by a string endowment. Willamette University is another PNW SLAC where you will get a great undergraduate experience as is University of Puget Sound. Whitman, Puget Sound, Willamette, and Reed are all among the CTCL schools and are effectively "unsung heroes" in undergraduate education.

Gonzaga is a great example of the Jesuit schools. University of Seattle is also a nice Jesuit school and University of Portland is a Holy Cross affiliated catholic school. You will get a great education at any of them.

UW is a super well known as a top public university, Oregon is strong, and both Washington State and Oregon State are fine schools for typical kids.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you like Reed and Lewis and Clark?

Reed and Lewis and Clark are great options but there are quite a few very good schools in the PNW, especially if you are not caught up in the whole "hunt for prestige" nonsense.

Whitman is a great school modeled after the NE SLACs. Solid endowment, good teaching and a great campus backed by a string endowment. Willamette University is another PNW SLAC where you will get a great undergraduate experience as is University of Puget Sound. Whitman, Puget Sound, Willamette, and Reed are all among the CTCL schools and are effectively "unsung heroes" in undergraduate education.

Gonzaga is a great example of the Jesuit schools. University of Seattle is also a nice Jesuit school and University of Portland is a Holy Cross affiliated catholic school. You will get a great education at any of them.

UW is a super well known as a top public university, Oregon is strong, and both Washington State and Oregon State are fine schools for typical kids.

Oregon state for engineering. Hewlett Packard was and maybe still is in that town

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Anonymous wrote:It is awesome for three months. Then it mists and rains for 9 months straight. Bigger issue for people is the lack of light in winter.

PNW native here. It really depends on where you are in the PNW - Eastern Washington (WSU, Gonzaga, Whitman, etc) are not like this at all.

+1. Eastern WA is drier, almost (but not quite) akin to Colorado. A little more moist than CO, but nothing like Western WA.

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We were impressed by Honors College at Oregon and really liked Eugene as a college town

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I have one child at UW - very happy and the weather is not nearly as bad as they expected. Yes, there are some dreary stretches but usually the sun comes out at some point during that day. And the beautiful days are that much better. Everyone gets out and it makes everyone take a break and appreciate. We hadn't seen Ranier in about 5 visits and it was finally out on our last trip. All the students kept saying "Look the mountains are out! You can see the Olympics and the Cascades and Ranier."

We toured Oregon and Oregon State and really liked both. Second kid is more pure science focus and we were really impressed by the individual tour they did for that. Oregon's constant hyping of Phil Knight was a little annoying but he is pouring the money in there so they have some great stuff due to that.

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Anonymous wrote:It is awesome for three months. Then it mists and rains for 9 months straight. Bigger issue for people is the lack of light in winter.

PNW native here. It really depends on where you are in the PNW - Eastern Washington (WSU, Gonzaga, Whitman, etc) are not like this at all.

Correct, Much more dry and arid. But, it's possible to get a lot of snow in the winter months.

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Many Oregon HS students seek drier and sunnier places to attend college. Classmates in OR wanted to move to Tucson because it is so damn sunny there albeit a bit too hot at times but not humid like the fking mid Atlantic east coast.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you like Reed and Lewis and Clark?

Reed and Lewis and Clark are great options but there are quite a few very good schools in the PNW, especially if you are not caught up in the whole "hunt for prestige" nonsense.

Whitman is a great school modeled after the NE SLACs. Solid endowment, good teaching and a great campus backed by a string endowment. Willamette University is another PNW SLAC where you will get a great undergraduate experience as is University of Puget Sound. Whitman, Puget Sound, Willamette, and Reed are all among the CTCL schools and are effectively "unsung heroes" in undergraduate education.

Gonzaga is a great example of the Jesuit schools. University of Seattle is also a nice Jesuit school and University of Portland is a Holy Cross affiliated catholic school. You will get a great education at any of them.

UW is a super well known as a top public university, Oregon is strong, and both Washington State and Oregon State are fine schools for typical kids.

Whitman only has 700mil and could be going under soon. Very easy to get into and less students applying