PSA:Have your kid go outside now to see if they really want a cold, northern college

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Anonymous wrote:I thought if you bought enough North Face jackets, you could do anything.

Canada Goose

So boujee.

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Anonymous wrote:DMV types are pathetic. My memories of winter at Dartmouth are some of the best and most distinctive of my college career. Beautiful snow-covered campus, well heated classrooms and dorms, immediately plowed sidewalks and paths, the same walkable community. And a short van ride to the Dartmouth skiway after classes end. if you don't have to drive to work, or change in and out of work shoes, or shovel your driveway -- or show off your limbs or cleavage -- crisp winter weather is fantastic. But go ahead, direct your kids to "up and coming" schools in the South. One suspects Northern schools are probably better off without kids whose choice of college is swayed by cold weather.

I had a very similar experience to you at Andover and think you sound super haughty and arrogant. Let people choose what they want and stop being so judgey.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to college in upstate NY. It wasn't the cold or the snow that was so rough. It was the length of the winter and the lack of sun. That was not for me.

Ditto, I don’t think people understand it’s not just a few weeks of colder weather than the DMV. I went to school in upstate NY too and while I loved it, it was always cold and snowy nearly the entire school year. I remember we had snow finals week one year. I went to visit in the summer once and was shocked that it actually got warm there! It could snow (and often did) anytime from October to April every year.

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Yes. Yes, my Siberian sled dog wants to go with them.

We can’t stand hot humid weather. Mid Atlantic is as far south as they’ll go and even the summers are too hot.

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Anonymous wrote:The particulars about any specific school matters regarding whether or not severe cold weather would be a determining factor.

Not sure that I could handle 2,000 student Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota even though it offers outstanding academics, yet I would have no difficulty attending college in cold weather locations such as Boston, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Madison, Ithaca, or Burlington, Vermont due to the student body size and the variety of numerous activities available in these non-isolated areas.

The difficulty for me would arise concerning the realities of dream schools like Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, Bowdoin College, Williams College, etc., which offer outstanding academics in a small community of high achievers, yet are located in rural, cold-weather, fairly isolated areas. Since I like to snow ski, the answer if offered an opportunity to attend any of these dream schools would be an easy yes, but I could probably not handle attending Bates, Kenyon, Carleton, unless I was a two-sport college athlete as the down time non-academic aspects are too limited and unattractive for my individual personality.

So long as one is aware of the realities of attending a small, rural, isolated, cold weather school, it is a matter of individual preference. Many are persuaded by generous financial aid or perceived prestige despite known shortcomings--and that is just part of life. Realities and decisions regarding one's options often override individual preferences. In short, specifics matter.

This seems oddly like it was written like a bot.

+1. “Variety of numerous activities”, “unattractive for my individual personality” “in short, specifics matter”? The stuff I’ve seen from
ChatGPT is better than this. Not sure what program PP used.

In any event I attended 2 of the schools on the list, including Carleton for undergrad. Loved them both. For me the cold was a positive feature and I did plenty of outdoor activities in winter - skiing, skating, broom hockey, etc.

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IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMV types are pathetic. My memories of winter at Dartmouth are some of the best and most distinctive of my college career. Beautiful snow-covered campus, well heated classrooms and dorms, immediately plowed sidewalks and paths, the same walkable community. And a short van ride to the Dartmouth skiway after classes end. if you don't have to drive to work, or change in and out of work shoes, or shovel your driveway -- or show off your limbs or cleavage -- crisp winter weather is fantastic. But go ahead, direct your kids to "up and coming" schools in the South. One suspects Northern schools are probably better off without kids whose choice of college is swayed by cold weather.

I had a very similar experience to you at Andover and think you sound super haughty and arrogant. Let people choose what they want and stop being so judgey.

Thank you. Pp is a jerk. I was an international student on almost full financial aid who landed at a college in Massachusetts with no warm clothes and very little money. I had a campus job to have some spending money. I had never even seen snow before in my life.
I hated the long cold winters. I did not know about buying clothes from Patagonia and Northface but neither could I afford them.
Winter wear is expensive and a lot of Americans probably have a hard time affording the appropriate wear

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Anonymous wrote:IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

So can too much sun.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought if you bought enough North Face jackets, you could do anything.

Canada Goose

So boujee.

Do you even understand the origin of this inane word? Doubt it, based on that weird spelling.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

So can too much sun.

Not really. Sun has amazing health benefits. You'd have to get *a lot* to cause problems, like be out all day.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m currently in TX (obligatory visit to ILs) and even they aren’t immune from this cold

My kid is currently obsessed with a school on Michigan’s UP. I am not against it, but we definitely need to get her much better winter gear.

My kid goes to school in MI and went to boarding school in MA. He said MI is another level of cold from New England, and basically never wears coats here in DC anymore. Today might be an exception though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

So can too much sun.

Not really. Sun has amazing health benefits. You'd have to get *a lot* to cause problems, like be out all day.

Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, skin cancer. None of those require you to be out all day.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m currently in TX (obligatory visit to ILs) and even they aren’t immune from this cold

My kid is currently obsessed with a school on Michigan’s UP. I am not against it, but we definitely need to get her much better winter gear.

My kid goes to school in MI and went to boarding school in MA. He said MI is another level of cold from New England, and basically never wears coats here in DC anymore. Today might be an exception though.

Agree both can be freezing, but Detroit is a different kind of cold.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

So can too much sun.

Not really. Sun has amazing health benefits. You'd have to get *a lot* to cause problems, like be out all day.

Heat exhaustion, heat stroke, skin cancer. None of those require you to be out all day.

I didn't say they have to live in Arizona. There are plenty of cities with warm weather where you wont' get heat stroke. SF, LA, tons more

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:IMCP: I live in LA bc cold weather is a nightmare. Like it can really cause actual physical pain on your skin.

So can too much sun.

Not really. Sun has amazing health benefits. You'd have to get *a lot* to cause problems, like be out all day.

I don’t understand your point. The cold isn’t bad for your health. If you’re dressed appropriately, you can be out in the cold for a long time. With all your filthy lucre, haven’t you ever gone skiing?