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[quote=Anonymous]The reason Utica is germane is because notwithstanding the characteristically ignorant comments here, Utica (Utica-Rome) is the seventh largest metro area in New York State, with nearly 300,000 people.   Its western suburbs like New Hartford are on the "side" of Utica that's closest to Hamilton.   Which means that Hamilton is a ten minute drive to the regional mall that contains about 50 stores including the usual small-mall staples (the Macy's there closed this year as part of Macy's broader retrenchment but regional Boscov's is a kind of Macy's lite), as well as Target and DSW.  And an array of restaurants, some chain.

What Utica also provides, for students who care about this, is a convenient opportunity to get out of the SLAC bubble.   It's famous for the volume of refugees that have settled there.   As a function of Utica's former prosperity, it has an art museum (Munson) that not only has a great collection but has an joint BFA program with Pratt in NY.

So no, Utica isn't Manhattan or Boston - that's hardly a revelation.   But when you think of SLACs that are located in tiny isolated rural communities, and the isolation and remoteness and lack of access or options that generates, being just outside Utica (and as noted above, a 50 minute drive to bigger Syracuse) means that's not quite the case for Hamilton.

Arguably one of the best things about Hamilton's location is that it weeds out kids from silly families that would turn their nose up at it.   That's not nothing.

My niece went there.   Now a practicing MD in Boston.  Loved it -- the academic experience, the people she met there.   Weather doesn't seem to have been a factor. [/quote]

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