Ideas, please :)

I don't expect everyone (or necessarily anyone) to have a good answer to this, but I'm dealing with quite a bit of college decision related stress.
I have two colleges to decide between:
The University of Redlands in California, and Hampshire College in Massachusetts.
I've already accepted admission from Redlands, but I recently found out I was accepted at Hampshire, and now I'm back at square one.
If anyone has any insight to the college decision process, or (especially) any knowledge of these schools, I'd love to hear from you... :)

Does one have a better program for your major?

If you really don't know how to decide and they're comparable equally...I say go to California. West coast, beaches, sunshine! No gigantic amounts of snowy winters. :)

It's actually quite a toss-up.
Redlands gets points for student life, traditional college experience, sports teams, warm weather, gorgeous campus, great professors, and The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies (even though I have massive culture shock being on the west coast)
BUT
Hampshire actually has access to all of the programs I want (Redlands lacks Russian), has a consortium with Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, UMass Amherst, and Smith, is closer to home (maybe a good thing?), has a great student body full of inquisitive and creative minds, and a history of excellent, well known professors and alumni. The school is definitely more academically demanding, which isn't good or bad, but it loses some points for being cold, having no sports teams and a less than stunning campus.
I like both, but my mom seems to be pushing for Redlands while my dad likes Hampshire. I'm stumped.

To the coin!

no really flip a coin over it. as soon as that disk of metal goes into the air youll know which one youre hoping it chooses for you, and you dont even have to look at it.

and if you really have no preference at all, none whatsoever, then maybe letting fate choose for you could yield an interesting result.

^

genius.

The sneaky coin flip is definitely what I do for things like that. Even if I think I don't now what to choose, I will end up being either excited or disappointed in the outcome, which unveils my secret (even from myself, apparently?) yearnings.

On another note, I'm applying to grad school in Mass. ; )

That's awesome, Sibs! It's beautiful here. Are you looking to the city of rural central Mass?

As to flipping a coin, I've considered it. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble deciding which side should be which.

Heads is the Hampshire, tails is Cali!

Thanks for your help guys. :) I'm pretty excited, I'm going to Hampshire.

Go Narphy! Goodluck! :)