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[quote=Anonymous]What does he want?

My mom talked me out of my first choice school because I don't love cold weather and it was in New England. She was convinced I'd be miserable.

In retrospect, the issue is just that I'm not outdoorsy in cold weather (I don't ski or skate or anything and don't want to) but actually don't really mind winter as long as I have warm clothes and can hole up inside when I want. Which you pretty much always can, especially on a college campus.

My college experience was fine but I do regret not going to my first choice (which was also more prestigious with a better alumni network) just because of this idea my mom had that I couldn't handle the weather. I now live in a place with cold winters and I handle it fine, I'll event take my kids sledding or to play in the snow and not hate it.

Weather isn't everything. Don't push him to go to the higher ranked school if he doesn't want to, but don't discourage it just for weather reasons. It's four years, not the rest of his life. If you can afford trips to the Caribbean, you can also afford some really high quality warm weather clothes.

Don't make a college decision based on weather alone.[/quote]

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