s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Most beautiful colleges: Smith College, Princeton, Vassar.

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Oxford is amazing, but alas, quite out of reach.

In the US, Sweet Briar is a beauty. Princeton looks great, as does Duke, which was modeled after it.

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Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful colleges: Smith College, Princeton, Vassar.

Smith is so lovely!

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Mary Washington.

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Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful colleges: Smith College, Princeton, Vassar.

If you like Princeton then Bryn Mawr should be right up there as well. Gorgeous Collegiate Gothic buildings.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can get inside the courtyards of the yale residential colleges - and I think you might only walk through one of them on a tour - they're pretty dreamy. Oxford rip off, sure, but a v good one.

Maybe i toured the wrong residential college, but I didn’t find Saybrook or Pauli Murray nice. Just a difference in personal tastes I’m sure, not like the kids are suffering.

They are all very different, intentionally built in a variety of architectural styles. I like some more than others, but the only ones I find ugly are Morse and Stiles. I haven’t personally seen the two new colleges up close in person, but they look nice from what I can tell.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Washington.

Surprisingly pretty!

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Washington.

Surprisingly pretty!

Why "surprisingly"? It's a lovely little jewel.

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Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful colleges: Smith College, Princeton, Vassar.

Smith is so lovely!

NP. It really is. And Northampton is cute and lively. I thought Amherst would be equally as charming but no.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can get inside the courtyards of the yale residential colleges - and I think you might only walk through one of them on a tour - they're pretty dreamy. Oxford rip off, sure, but a v good one.

Maybe i toured the wrong residential college, but I didn’t find Saybrook or Pauli Murray nice. Just a difference in personal tastes I’m sure, not like the kids are suffering.

They are all very different, intentionally built in a variety of architectural styles. I like some more than others, but the only ones I find ugly are Morse and Stiles. I haven’t personally seen the two new colleges up close in person, but they look nice from what I can tell.

Yale is more polarizing in terms of opinions than I might have suspected. Half the people are awed by its architecture and the other half either think it's too busy/ostentatious or can't get over its location in New Haven.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Washington.

Surprisingly pretty!

Why "surprisingly"? It's a lovely little jewel.

Usually less selective places aren't as pretty. I (like the PP) also visited Mary Washington and saw how absolutely beautiful it was. It is an exception.

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Every college campus I've seen has been pretty, but perhaps the prettiest of all, imo, was the University of British Columbia. That whole area is gorgeous!

I haven't seen it myself, but I hear the Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, is beautiful. The pictures look lovely.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can get inside the courtyards of the yale residential colleges - and I think you might only walk through one of them on a tour - they're pretty dreamy. Oxford rip off, sure, but a v good one.

Maybe i toured the wrong residential college, but I didn’t find Saybrook or Pauli Murray nice. Just a difference in personal tastes I’m sure, not like the kids are suffering.

They are all very different, intentionally built in a variety of architectural styles. I like some more than others, but the only ones I find ugly are Morse and Stiles. I haven’t personally seen the two new colleges up close in person, but they look nice from what I can tell.

Yale is more polarizing in terms of opinions than I might have suspected. Half the people are awed by its architecture and the other half either think it's too busy/ostentatious or can't get over its location in New Haven.

I think this is mostly people who have been in New Haven but didn't get out of their cars. That was me for a long time. I had a client in New Haven (and I dont hate New Haven!) and thought yale was kinda drab. Then I toured it with my kid, and met with a friend's kid and got an inside look at the colleges and wow, I was wrong. It's like a movie set

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Washington.

Surprisingly pretty!

Why "surprisingly"? It's a lovely little jewel.

Christopher Newport is very nice as well.

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Anonymous wrote:if you can get inside the courtyards of the yale residential colleges - and I think you might only walk through one of them on a tour - they're pretty dreamy. Oxford rip off, sure, but a v good one.

Maybe i toured the wrong residential college, but I didn’t find Saybrook or Pauli Murray nice. Just a difference in personal tastes I’m sure, not like the kids are suffering.

They are all very different, intentionally built in a variety of architectural styles. I like some more than others, but the only ones I find ugly are Morse and Stiles. I haven’t personally seen the two new colleges up close in person, but they look nice from what I can tell.

Yale is more polarizing in terms of opinions than I might have suspected. Half the people are awed by its architecture and the other half either think it's too busy/ostentatious or can't get over its location in New Haven.

I think this is mostly people who have been in New Haven but didn't get out of their cars. That was me for a long time. I had a client in New Haven (and I dont hate New Haven!) and thought yale was kinda drab. Then I toured it with my kid, and met with a friend's kid and got an inside look at the colleges and wow, I was wrong. It's like a movie set

This doesn’t make any sense. Most people who’ve seen Yale toured it.