Which state schools do not charge an OOS rate? And will also give merit?

MichMash
Thu, 01 Dec 2022 04:40:32 +0000

I shouldn’t have said that Sault Ste. Marie is warmer than any of the N. Dakota, MN & WI schools on the above list because MN and WI are very large states that extend pretty far south. Winona State, for example, is south of Minneapolis, and is on average 3 degrees warmer over December, January, and February, than Sault Ste. Marie.

However, SSM is warmer than all the other ND/MN schools on the list. And the sole WI entry, UW@Oshkosh is just 2 degrees warmer than SSM on average. I am using average high winter temperatures that Google shows on a quickie search for each college town.

Sault Ste. Marie average high temps in Dec/Jan/Feb are 28/23/25 degrees.
Compare with Minot State in ND which is 24/20/24.

U.Minn at Morris is even colder at 24/18/23.
Bemidji St in MN is colder yet at 21/16/23.
U.Minn at Crookston is coldest of all at 21/15/20. That’s
7/8/5 degrees colder over winter than Sault Ste. Marie!

Just for additional reference, I looked up the average winter high temperatures in Duluth which is on the western end of Lake Superior (SSM being on the eastern end) and it shows
25/20/25 Dec/Jan/Feb which is 3 degrees colder than SSM on average per day in Dec. and Jan.

We do, however, agree that there’s often a lot of snow in SSM each winter averaging 109" total. Sault Ste. Marie, MI Climate