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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just visited Tulane this year and it checks a lot of boxes.  It is a medium-size school, in/near a city, pretty campus, undergrad teaching focus, and has on-campus housing. The weather is also warm (we are in the northeast coast and warm is appealing) and looks to have a friendly student body. It also offers good merit for strong students. Every school can be a party-school. Its price point is similar to many privates. My kid applied EA this year and was accepted with good merit. It is still on the list...[/quote]

I never understand the people who mindlessly promote the weather in New Orleans, Texas, Atlanta, Arizona, Houston (all locations of oft-discussed schools).  Do you even know what you're talking about, as you type from Bergen County or Stamford?

New Orleans weather isn't "warm" (except in February). It's balls hot and the sticky AF. It's swamplike, truly.  And because it's belowish sea level, New Orleans flat out stinks between May and Thanksgiving.

This is not a reason to take Tulane, Rice, SMU, ASU, Baylor etc off your list. They all have their merits.

But for the love of godd, please stop and think before you type that 104 degrees for days on end is "warm, good" weather (Dallas, Austin, Tempe).  Or that 87% humidity is "warm."  No, it's a fetid swamp.  [/quote]

You are aware of the months of the year that students are generally at their school, right? There are few 104 degree days during those months. There are a lot of below freezing days at schools up north during those months.[/quote]
My experience is from Texas and this just…isn’t correct.

The weather stays 100 or so until nearly the end of September now. Then it moves into a heavy rainy/flooding season that you in DC might call fall. Then it gets colder and the weather is fine. Then in January/february/sometimes March it’s 20-40°, and then sometime in April you’re back to 90° and sweating bullets. It’s not a nice climate, and I’m not sure how anyone could perceive it as such[/quote]

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