Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 09:09     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
My kids refuse to apply to warm weather schools. DC is as warm as we're willing to live.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 09:09     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Or did you make them?


My kid is not stupid of course they didn’t apply to one southern school .
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 09:08     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Most of the schools my kid applied were in warm weather areas. There was only one school that they said was worth the winter and that’s where my kid chose. If they hadn’t gotten into that school, they would be somewhere in the south, I suspect. They will be going somewhere warm for spring break and still get to study at their number one school.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 09:06     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:The pampering of children continues. What happens when they get a job offer in Chicago? I guess staying in the DC area and being unemployed is more desirable.


Why would you apply to a job where you don't want to live?
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:52     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Nope
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:51     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:For DC it’s less about cold and more about whether the place is gray and rainy for a significant period. U Rochester would be very appealing but the weather is not, for example. DC needs regular sunlight.

And no, I would not force my kid to apply anywhere they didn’t want to be, whatever the reason. They aren’t going to be successful if they are miserable. There are thousands of colleges, why force anything?


Rochester might be the most depressing town I have ever spent time in. And I say that having lived in the PNW for a decade + and Glasgow Scotland for 3 years.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:39     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Cold weather or abortion access, you choose.


They have abortion access here in dmv but I’m not worried about pregnancy.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:38     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
As long as they have a good range of likelier, targets and reaches, and these options that are affordable to the family, then weather/geography seems like a perfectly reasonable factor to consider in creating a college list.

Mine also prefers mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states and schools. I suspect our other child may prefer warmth and the south when the time comes.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:36     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Yes, I shut down DC's silly protestation and sent him to Mich Tech


I visited Michigan Tech this summer when my kid was in engineering camp. I liked the campus. The school owns a little ski resort nearby. In the library, I quickly found four cool books in the donated resale section - evidence that people (profs?) have an intellectual life beyind school. I'd be good with it being on my kid's list. Snow and all.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:33     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:The pampering of children continues. What happens when they get a job offer in Chicago? I guess staying in the DC area and being unemployed is more desirable.


My kid will put the effort in to get more than one job offer.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:31     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Cold weather or abortion access, you choose.


This was pretty much where we landed, although the kid also was concerned about LGBTQ+ rights. The states were basically the same.

She did apply to one school near St Louis, as it was close to IL. A school in NC was also strongly considered (just didn’t apply in the end-late deadline)



+1

Sending a kid to a red state with the new laws in those states insanity for warm weather idiots
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:29     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Or did you make them?


No because my kid isn’t stupid enough to go to a red state
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:28     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
We put a 6 hour driving radius around DC, with a strong preference for in-state schools (VA) or merit aid. I know, absolutely blasphemy on these boards!
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:25     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
My kid no only wants year round warmth, they want big football too which feels extra limiting to largely state flagships and I’m not crazy about that for them.
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2025 08:21     Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Cold weather or abortion access, you choose.


This was pretty much where we landed, although the kid also was concerned about LGBTQ+ rights. The states were basically the same.

She did apply to one school near St Louis, as it was close to IL. A school in NC was also strongly considered (just didn’t apply in the end-late deadline)