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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC's top two choices could not be more different weather wise.  Of course, the cold one is a much better school academically (top 25).  The warm one isn't nearly as strong (60s), but my kid loves sunshine and warm weather. Thanks to merit, the cost is not that different between the two and they both are a plane ride away.  If the academics of the warm one matched the cold one, it would be a no brainer.  If you or your kid went to a cold climate (and weren't a cold climate person), how did that work out?  Is weather a big enough issue or does academic reputation matter more?

I did promise we could go to the Caribbean for Christmas if they went north.  :p. [/quote]

I am from the south. I was miserable my four years in Ithaca. Made lifelong friends, but that kind of cold weather is just not for me. Every chance I had, I got the hell out of that place to thaw….I’m going to say I regret since it has opened a lot of doors for me over the years, but I could have stayed South at Rice, but decided to go up north…..tough one.[/quote]

Well Ithaca is a "special type of dreary and cold"  It is so isolated, we visited in warmer weather and my kid did NOT like the area (or Cornell). So IMO, that one is likely more to do with small town/isolated town versus just cold and dreary.  
oh, and my kid selected a school 2hours away that is also "grey and dreary and cold" but it's in a town of 250K+ so there is much more to do.   So it's not 100% the cold weather but the other factors
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Assume you are talking about Syracuse?   Syracuse is consistently ranked as having happy students.  It is also the city that gets the most snow in the US.

Every kid I know who goes there loves it.  So it is the culture and fit.[/quote]

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