<p>Well, if people don’t want to visit because they think it’s too cold, that is their loss. Three years ago February I took my elder son on a weekday tour of Hamilton on his winter break (we are from California). We were the only family on the tour and he had a terrific interview with the Associate Dean of Admissions. We stayed over at a nearby hotel after visiting Colgate that afternoon–he was NOT impressed at all by Colgate, by the way–and the next morning he audited a Greek class. We both fell in love with Hamilton, but he chose Wesleyan for Early Decision and wound up never applying. We rented a Jeep SUV with 4WD and GPS and despite falling snow and the closure of the highway between Colgate and Hamilton the next day, we somehow made it down to Cornell the next day and were also the only family on the tour as a wet snow fell. As my jaw dropped, he told me he did not like Cornell, either! But making that snowy February trip to upper NY State schools was a parental memory I will never forget.</p>