Most beautiful college campuses in VA

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Anonymous wrote:Toured UVA this past fall. Agree it is going downhill and needs a good pressure washing. The secrecy society grafitii is definitely a turn off as well.

Either you didn't tour or you weren't listening. Those are benevolent philanthropic societies of great historical and financial importance to the university. They have raised 100s of millions of dollars for the welfare of UVA, Charlottesville, and financial aid. Please read and learn. It is considered a great honor to be tapped for one of them. They are secret because they teach philanthropy. In some of the societies, even the member's family don't learn their family member was a member and donated time and money to the University for decades following graduation. A wreath appears at the funeral. That is all. It's a great educational tool for everyone in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas. And by the way is a world UNESCO site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_societies_at_the_University_of_Virginia. The only university in America that is. UVA is consistently ranked one of the most beautiful campuses in America: "UVA is regarded as one of the most beautiful and prestigious universities in the world. In 1987, UNESCO named the University (in conjunction with Monticello) a World Heritage Site. This rare distinction has been bestowed upon only the world's most culturally significant landmarks..

Please stop the UVa bashing. It's not constructive. My DD wasn't even a contender for it but as a Virginian, I am very proud of the 33 institutions of higher learning that we offer, as well as the Governor's schools. It's just not cool to bash like this, especially when it's clear you don't know what you are talking about.

DP. Good grief.

No, we’re all tired of the uva bashing. It’s the end of the admittance year. We get that your kids didn’t get in or didn’t have the stats to even apply but there’s no reason to keep making up generic nonsense just to make yourself feel momentarily good.

You are talking to a DP - I have said nothing derogatory about UVA. But your screed, above is totally overreacting. As usual.

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Anonymous wrote:William & Mary's campus creeps me out for some reason. There's just something about that campus that gives me a weird negative vibe whenever I've been around it. It isn't ugly, just creepy.

This is exactly - almost verbatim - what both my kids said when we visited. I was somewhat ambivalent about the campus, but they were adamantly repulsed by it in a very specific way. Interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Not sure ugliest, but plain, utilitarian and uninspired Boswell Hall at W&M.

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Yes, we can't figure out why it hasn't been torn down yet. I think it will be very soon, as they're building new dorms. I think the current buildings (other than Slusher!) are beautiful. Love the gothic architecture.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that we've established that there are many beautiful campuses, what is the LEAST attractive campus in Virginia? My vote would be VCU

VCU doesn’t have a true campus. It’s mixed in with the city, but I think the location it’s in is attractive.

It is kind of the NYU of Virginia. Many kids who go there probably choose it over other options based on its setting.

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Anonymous wrote:Now that we've established that there are many beautiful campuses, what is the LEAST attractive campus in Virginia? My vote would be VCU

VCU doesn’t have a true campus. It’s mixed in with the city, but I think the location it’s in is attractive.

My older kid is in Boston, at a school that truly has no real "campus" to speak of. Compared to that, I was pleasantly surprised by VCU. It wasn't as overwhelmingly integrated into the city as I'd been expecting. And my kid didn't hate it.

DD didn't like Radford at all. We liked Virginia Tech a lot more than we thought we would. Neither of us find UVA at all attractive outside of maybe the Lawn, and even that is nice but nothing special compared to other campuses we've visited (and before I get accused of bashing, I'm an alum...I have no complaints with the education, I just don't get the hype about how "beautiful" Grounds are).

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The UVA hate on this site is comical. Intense inferiority complex. Just because your kids didn’t get in doesn’t mean you have to marinate in your hate. If you don’t think UVA is beautiful, you’re blind. It’s Top 10 in almost every most beautiful colleges list and a world heritage site. But let’s talk about Redford some more.

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Anonymous wrote:The UVA hate on this site is comical. Intense inferiority complex. Just because your kids didn’t get in doesn’t mean you have to marinate in your hate. If you don’t think UVA is beautiful, you’re blind. It’s Top 10 in almost every most beautiful colleges list and a world heritage site. But let’s talk about Redford some more.

+1 and I didn't go there but do think it's gorgeous

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Not sure ugliest, but plain, utilitarian and uninspired Boswell Hall at W&M.

Can't wait for them to tear that down in the next decade

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Can’t even have a thread like this without the bitter UVA and W&M haters doing their thing.

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Not sure ugliest, but plain, utilitarian and uninspired Boswell Hall at W&M.

Can't wait for them to tear that down in the next decade

I am a W&M alum (late 80's). I didn't realize that Boswell was the the old Morton Hall, it needs to go.

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Anonymous wrote:I really found Radford to be completely depressing. Maybe it was the weather that day or the general way the students carried themselves, like they were all depressed and didn’t want to be there.

Agree that CNU seem superficially nice but that it also feels a bit forced — a small university shoehorned into a small city and surrounded by strip malls.

I liked William and Mary a lot and Williamsburg adjacent is a huge plus.

Sweet Briar is also picturesque but very small and eerily deserted when we were there.

DD is at UVA. Grounds have grown on me — especially the central area around the Lawn and the old dorms. But Charlottesville is kind of the pits.

Other DD is entering VT in August. The campus is quite uniform, maybe a not to its military roots? I wasn’t wild about the stone facades but it, too, is growing on me.

Agree JMU’s vistas are nice and I liked the size and feel of the campus. I-81 is there but I don’t think it’s much of a factor for students day-to-day.

I have heard decent things about Virginia Wesleyan but haven’t been there.

How is Charlottesville the pitta? Did daughter will be there in the fall.

Charlottesville and surrounding area is one of the nicest parts of Virginia.

Some have a perception that the city government is not very competent and crime is increasing.

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Anonymous wrote:Toured UVA this past fall. Agree it is going downhill and needs a good pressure washing. The secrecy society grafitii is definitely a turn off as well.

Either you didn't tour or you weren't listening. Those are benevolent philanthropic societies of great historical and financial importance to the university. They have raised 100s of millions of dollars for the welfare of UVA, Charlottesville, and financial aid. Please read and learn. It is considered a great honor to be tapped for one of them. They are secret because they teach philanthropy. In some of the societies, even the member's family don't learn their family member was a member and donated time and money to the University for decades following graduation. A wreath appears at the funeral. That is all. It's a great educational tool for everyone in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas. And by the way is a world UNESCO site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_societies_at_the_University_of_Virginia. The only university in America that is. UVA is consistently ranked one of the most beautiful campuses in America: "UVA is regarded as one of the most beautiful and prestigious universities in the world. In 1987, UNESCO named the University (in conjunction with Monticello) a World Heritage Site. This rare distinction has been bestowed upon only the world's most culturally significant landmarks..

Please stop the UVa bashing. It's not constructive. My DD wasn't even a contender for it but as a Virginian, I am very proud of the 33 institutions of higher learning that we offer, as well as the Governor's schools. It's just not cool to bash like this, especially when it's clear you don't know what you are talking about.

DP. Good grief.

No, we’re all tired of the uva bashing. It’s the end of the admittance year. We get that your kids didn’t get in or didn’t have the stats to even apply but there’s no reason to keep making up generic nonsense just to make yourself feel momentarily good.

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There are 3-4 colleges (not all in VA) on here that haters can not resist, for that same reason. It is so obvious and immature.

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Not sure ugliest, but plain, utilitarian and uninspired Boswell Hall at W&M.

Can't wait for them to tear that down in the next decade

I am a W&M alum (late 80's). I didn't realize that Boswell was the the old Morton Hall, it needs to go.

Why did they rename Morton? I spent a lot of late nights writing papers in that crappy computer lab...

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Anonymous wrote:There should be a thread for the ugliest building on a Virginia college campus.

I'll start. Slusher Tower at Va Tech. Looks like the Soviets or East Germans built it.

Not sure ugliest, but plain, utilitarian and uninspired Boswell Hall at W&M.

Can't wait for them to tear that down in the next decade

I am a W&M alum (late 80's). I didn't realize that Boswell was the the old Morton Hall, it needs to go.

Why did they rename Morton? I spent a lot of late nights writing papers in that crappy computer lab...

Richard Lee Morton was born on September 20, 1889 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He received his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College in 1910 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He also received an M.A. from Harvard. He came to William & Mary as Associate Professor of History and Political Science and was made chairman of the History Department in 1921. Along with Prof. Grimes, he lived in the Alumni House in 1920.

Morton served as editor of the William & Mary Quarterly and wrote The Negro in Virginia Politics (1919), Virginia Since 1861 (1924) and Struggle Against Tyranny, Virginia 1677-1699 (1957) and Colonial Virginia (1960). Morton also edited an edition of Hugh Jones' Present State of Virginia. Dr. Morton's appointments were: Associate Professor of History and Political Science, 1919-1922; Professor of History and Political Science, 1922-1959; Chancellor Professor of History, Emeritus, 1959-1968.

He was awarded an honorary degree (LL.D.) at Charter Day in 1965. He retired in 1959 and died in 1974.

Boswell Hall was originally named for Morton, but was renamed as part of William & Mary's effort to examine and learn from the university’s role in slavery, secession, and segregation. Morton had authored several works with racist and white supremacist themes, including The Negro in Virginia Politics.