After growing up in coastal Portsmouth, N.H., senior Zoe Dumais was looking for a college that reminded her of home. “I wanted to be in a similar environment, the cute New England town with a waterfront...

Though she grew up in Tampa, Fla., senior Nina Pastore spent much of her childhood escaping the heat and vacationing to the snowy hills of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where her grandparents own a farm. “Vermont...