Is visiting in cold weather a problem?

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As for the schools that I mentioned, I would concur with the thought that places like Duke, Vandy, UNC, are typically not places that share applicants with places like Bryn Mawr and Haverford. Davidson, however, is. Wake might and it is less reachy and has something of a LAC feel to it.

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<p>Yes, niece goes to Davidson and I’ve asked them to consider it. Wake’s a perfectly nice college, but it doesn’t have anything that isn’t already more than covered in their lists, and I don’t see a need to add a southern school just for the sake of having one be southern. It needs to fit criteria and make sense. </p>

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BTW, I think you’re smart to visit these schools during the year and during periods when the weather may be most objectionable. Your Tulane discovery is a perfect example of that and helped you cross it off the list.

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<p>I sometimes think I must post in Swahili :-). My concern was never that the weather at any of the Northern schools would ever be “objectionable” <a href=“these%20are%20Chicago%20kids!”>i</a>* or that it would misrepresent a campus to have them visit it in warm weather when for a good chunk of the year it’s cold. <em>That’s not a concern.</em> My question was whether cold weather would inhibit or impede the ability to get the full feel of the campus. </p>

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If late Feb/early March in DC is spring for you, then I guess you must’ve found April positively balmy and June/July/August uninhabitable. I think you’re about a month early. Average DC hi in March is only 56 with average low of 37. I guess folks have different thresholds for weather, but mid-50s, often with blustery winds, is not exactly shorts and sandals weather.

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<p>Right, but shorts and sandals aren’t signs of spring either. That goes by the name of summer :-).</p>