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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an alum. Yes, the winters are cold and dreary, and occasionally quite windy due to the lake effect. I wouldn't call them brutal, but being from the northeast originally, I don't mind the snow and cold; someone who does might find the Ithaca winter to be too much. My freshman year roommate from AZ transferred out because of the weather and there was one guy down the hall from CA who grumbled a lot about the snow, but most students seemed to grin and bear it. The campus is situated on a steep hill from downtown Ithaca and the upperclassmen dorms on West Campus, and I remember trudging up to class up that hill in the snow was no joke. Fall and summer are quite lovely though.

As far as competitiveness goes, I was in Arts&Sci and while the academics were challenging to be sure, I never found it overwhelmingly competitive. I agree with the above PP that the feeling of competitiveness will likely depend on your major or school - premeds and engineering students have a reputation of being more competitive than the liberal arts or social sciences. That was true 20 years ago, and it's likely still true today. I lived with a bunch of engineering students (Chemical and Materials Science) and while they hit the books a ton, they also had some downtime and were able to participate in clubs and activities. It's not like they spent their entire undergraduate experience holed up in the library stacks. [/quote]

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