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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I both went to UW (him for both his degrees). I don't really get this. Seattle is much further away than the other schools you mentioned, and UWash isn't meaningfully better than, say, UMich. Also, if you are going out west, there are much better flight options between DC and SF or LA than there are between DC and Seattle...so most UC campuses would get a preference from a convenience perspective.

[b]I don't really buy the weather arguments. [/b]I'm from the midwest, and Seattle weather is definitely better than Ann Arbor or Madison.[/quote]

So take my perspective as a single data point, like yours is a single data point.

- Grew up in NOVA.
- Attended grad school in Boston.
- Lived in NH and MA for several years. (Used to the New England winter.)
- Transferred to Seattle for 3 years. The early sunsets in winter, gray days, and frequent rain were very difficult on me.
- Add in people freaking out about a day that was 80 degrees and sunny. I couldn't understand this reaction.

- So very happy to get back to the East Coast.
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I'm not saying it's for everyone, I'm just saying that it isn't like moving to Fairbanks or Siberia where you could legitimately argue that the weather is a unique deterrent that would significantly reduce applications. Plenty of people hate the weather in the Midwest as well, but people go there for school all the time. Personally, I was very happy to leave :)

Either way, I wasn't comparing to east coast weather. I went to grad school in NE, and one of the things that really struck me is how much sunnier the winters are there.[/quote]

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