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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can the people who didn’t like Oberlin elaborate please?  We’re waiting to hear from them before a visit.[/quote]

I didn’t go to school there but I lived in Oberlin.

It is kind a depressing area in Lorain County, Ohio. It’s not close to the lake and the cities of Elyria and Lorain are depressing. Oberlin itself is a dry town (or was when I lived there) and there are no bars or anything for nightlife. And it’s bloody cold in the winter.[/quote]

I didn’t go there but I’ve been there a couple of times as an adult because my husband did attend.  I thought the town was so cute and the campus was very nice. I was impressed. [/quote]

+1. My DD is there now. The town is charming and town and gown has improved a whole lot since the 2016 Gibsons Bakery thing.   Weirdly, COVID really helped town and gown. There was a concern that kids would come back to campus and bring COVID with them and the town seems to appreciate that the kids are more obsessive than the town about masks and social distancing than they are. People are being good neighbors, which wasn’t the case all around after Trump was elected. Good riddance and all that.

But wow, the Lake effect is real and February is brutal. They are making it work during COVID with an ice carnival and snow sculpting and ice rink and bonfires as the social center.  So they are embracing the suck.  But let’s face it. The weather is miserable right now. Great place for COVID summer and fall. Awful COVID winter.  Many kids are off campus for Jan term. But make sure your kid can handle 6 weeks of snow and ice amd the real possibility of snow into April. Seeing the Ohio or MN colleges in winter is not a bad idea. You don’t was to oversell downside. But, there is one. [/quote]

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