<p>All I know is that, in the case of Bowdoin, it is not defined in terms of weather.</p>
<p>Personally, I think in this environment that finding a “hot” college is a lot like finding a “hot” dot com stock in the '90s. The demand has lost all connection to reality. It means little, if anything at all, in our batcr@p crazy world where, just for example, Brown gets over 30,000 applications and has a 8% acceptance rate. And, honestly, the idea should be different from picking a stock, which has the same value regardless of who the owner might be. Whether a college is “hot” – in terms of demand – should have 0.00 bearing on whether it is “hot” as it relates to a prospective applicant’s wants, needs, dreams, desires, goals, interests, etc. And yet I’d be lying if I told you that my own S wasn’t a little bit impressed by acceptances from the schools with puny acceptance rates (which, I presume, is why those acceptance letters make a point of telling the students how many applications were received for a limited number of places). Still, I contend it’s just silly talk, however “hot” is defined.</p>