<p>I have several good friends on the faculty there and have visited there while school is in session. It’s a very preppy school. Almost everyone is involved in athletics The students are smart and upper middle class with a strong sense of entitlement. There is a huge drinking scene. And they are more conservative than most northeastern schools (although certainly with plenty of students who are not conservative.) The conservatism is fiscal conservatism not social conservatism and not a conservatism linked to Christian evangelical faith traditions. </p>
<p>And, no, it isn’t the weather. There are plenty of colleges and universities in cold and snowy places that have different tones and cultures.</p>