User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Skyrim Dawnguard Trailer/@comment-4772788-20120531195710/@comment-4772788-20120531202318

The college of winterhold is almost as hard to get into, partially because everyone theyre has skill in at least one school of magic. Due to this and the fact that there are multiple masters of magical arts there, it would end very poorly as well. (and if you finished that questline, then angering the guy who single handedly killed the dragon god of destruction as well as who single handedly ended a war, and whom is affiliated with various other groups as well as with daedric princes... then its a bad idea. TLDR: vampires vs some of the best skilled mages on the continent, probably would end in the mages favor.  That and the guard force in the town provides additional protection.