Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:24
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?
Don't let the weather make that choice, U Rochester is an amazing school. And it's very sunny when it's cold out. The winters have not been that bad the last 3 years
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:22
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
There are 4000 U.S. colleges. Winnowing down for weather preference is as reasonable as any other large category (city/suburb/rural, distance, school size, etc).
+1 I am happier and more productive in warmer weather. I applied according to undergrad and grad school accordingly. I have 2 HYPS degrees. We are lucky that there are plenty of American universities to choose from.
+2 Rumor has it there are even colleges in other countries...
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:20
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Someone who hates Chicago’s weather probably isn’t applying to jobs in Chicago.
Consider this possibility. Your kid applies to a corporation, they offer a job at one of their offices which happens to be in a cold climate. My advice is to take the job for a year or 2, get some experience and then, apply elsewhere. My DS applied to Bowdoin College and I reminded him a college campus isn't like home where your mom and dad send you out to shovel multiple times a day. The college has people and heavy duty machinery.
Great for your child that he wants to go to Bowdoin. Not every kid would want to. And a job offer is just a job offer--your kid can refuse the offer if they have a better one. Same with college--people have choices.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:14
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Someone who hates Chicago’s weather probably isn’t applying to jobs in Chicago.
Consider this possibility. Your kid applies to a corporation, they offer a job at one of their offices which happens to be in a cold climate. My advice is to take the job for a year or 2, get some experience and then, apply elsewhere. My DS applied to Bowdoin College and I reminded him a college campus isn't like home where your mom and dad send you out to shovel multiple times a day. The college has people and heavy duty machinery.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:14
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Yeah, if there is a way to cut the list somehow, do it.
We used our own criteria, which left East Coast schools from VA to New England, MI, IL, CO, NV, NM and the West Coast. It also helped that my daughter was looking for a very specific set of majors and/or minors.
We used our own criteria, which left East Coast schools from VA to New England, MI, IL, CO, NV, NM and the West Coast. It also helped that my daughter was looking for a very specific set of majors and/or minors.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:12
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
There are 4000 U.S. colleges. Winnowing down for weather preference is as reasonable as any other large category (city/suburb/rural, distance, school size, etc).
+1 I am happier and more productive in warmer weather. I applied according to undergrad and grad school accordingly. I have 2 HYPS degrees. We are lucky that there are plenty of American universities to choose from.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 11:10
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Haha, mine did. I am a UMich alum, DH went to U of Rochester. DD only applied to southern schools, Auburn, Emory, GTech, U of Florida.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 10:43
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
Higher learning lol Undergrad doesn’t matter. Paying a lot is plain dumb and anyone with common sense knows this.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 10:39
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
There are more ridiculous reasons to choose a college. There are so many opportunities out there, I don’t care if my kid has geographical preferences (and he does—actually related to his major).
Anonymous
11/03/2025 10:36
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
The south has horrible weather! Hot, muggy, rainy.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 10:10
Subject: Re:Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
The South isn’t some giant uniform monolith.
+1.
Just like any other part of the country isn't some giant uniform monolith. Ever been to Western MA? Or the middle of Rhode Island? It's not like the entire Northeast is 99% affluent with grad school degrees.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:58
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
There are 4000 U.S. colleges. Winnowing down for weather preference is as reasonable as any other large category (city/suburb/rural, distance, school size, etc).
The PP just likes to be contrarian for the sake of it. You’re policing a person’s likes and dislikes. You must be fun.
I’m literally saying we should NOT be policing people’s likes and dislikes. I’m delightful.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:56
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
There are 4000 U.S. colleges. Winnowing down for weather preference is as reasonable as any other large category (city/suburb/rural, distance, school size, etc).
The PP just likes to be contrarian for the sake of it. You’re policing a person’s likes and dislikes. You must be fun.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:55
Subject: Re:Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
No one cares.
Anonymous
11/03/2025 09:51
Subject: Anyone’s kids refuse to apply to cold weather schools?
Anonymous wrote: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.
yeah limiting your college search to easy weather only is ridiculous. it's higher learning, not a resort or vacation. they can always study abroad somewhere warm one winter term or take a sunny trip during spring break.
There are 4000 U.S. colleges. Winnowing down for weather preference is as reasonable as any other large category (city/suburb/rural, distance, school size, etc).