Most beautiful campuses

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Walked around Rice yesterday in the rain. Beautiful campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved, loved UC Santa Cruz! The campus is literally in a redwood forest. Every building is surrounded by huge redwoods! There are trails and wooden bridges connecting campus areas. The buildings fit into the landscape. It’s high up and the views from some of the taller building and floors at sunset are amazing. There is a short shuttle or bus into downtown and the beach areas. The walkway path and cliffs along West Cliff drive are breathtaking. Natural bridges at low tide has amazing tide pools.

The campus itself is beautiful in a way that could not be recreated anywhere else.

It felt like being on vacation. If you love nature, this is the place to be. Of course, my kids had no interest in living in nature or going to UCSC sadly.

UCSC is a wonderful place, but be aware, housing is off the charts expensive and challenging after the first year, the bus service can be overcrowded for getting around campus to classes and it can be hard to get into some classes.

UCSC requires a degree of initiative that is similar to going to a college in a large city.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen quite a few campuses, albeit over a long period of time. In no particular order, the ones that stand out in my memory are:

Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Indiana University, Scripps/Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, U. of Richmond, William and Mary, West Point, Annapolis, Vassar, U. San Diego, Stanford, U. Colorado, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr

I visited Cornell and Washington on dull, overcast days, which might have negatively impacted my perceptions.

Is Washington here WashU?

I went to WashU and loved WashU. I liked its campus. But I don’t think its campus is really as pretty as what I remember of UNC’s old campus, and I think WashU’s new fake old buildings are ugly. Maybe they’ll be prettier when they get older.

I think Harvard’s Harvard Square campus is beautiful.

Hollins University’s campus is also beautiful.

I meant U of Washington. I have never seen the WashU campus. UNC doesn't appeal to me as much as it ince did. Too much construction.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved, loved UC Santa Cruz! The campus is literally in a redwood forest. Every building is surrounded by huge redwoods! There are trails and wooden bridges connecting campus areas. The buildings fit into the landscape. It’s high up and the views from some of the taller building and floors at sunset are amazing. There is a short shuttle or bus into downtown and the beach areas. The walkway path and cliffs along West Cliff drive are breathtaking. Natural bridges at low tide has amazing tide pools.

The campus itself is beautiful in a way that could not be recreated anywhere else.

It felt like being on vacation. If you love nature, this is the place to be. Of course, my kids had no interest in living in nature or going to UCSC sadly.

UCSC is a wonderful place, but be aware, housing is off the charts expensive and challenging after the first year, the bus service can be overcrowded for getting around campus to classes and it can be hard to get into some classes.

UCSC requires a degree of initiative that is similar to going to a college in a large city.

Is this really needed advice for the class of parents to spend Oos tuition for UCSC

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen quite a few campuses, albeit over a long period of time. In no particular order, the ones that stand out in my memory are:

Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Indiana University, Scripps/Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, U. of Richmond, William and Mary, West Point, Annapolis, Vassar, U. San Diego, Stanford, U. Colorado, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr

I visited Cornell and Washington on dull, overcast days, which might have negatively impacted my perceptions.

Is Washington here WashU?

I went to WashU and loved WashU. I liked its campus. But I don’t think its campus is really as pretty as what I remember of UNC’s old campus, and I think WashU’s new fake old buildings are ugly. Maybe they’ll be prettier when they get older.

I think Harvard’s Harvard Square campus is beautiful.

Hollins University’s campus is also beautiful.

Harvard looks like a gotdang boarding school. Most disappointing and underwhelming campus I've ever seen.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Enjoy MAGA country for us, if cities scare you that much. I’m surprised the internet connection in your impoverished rural hellscape is strong enough to post on DCUM.

All this vitriol for someone making the obvious point that NYU is not exactly what comes to mind when people ask about beautiful college campuses?

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The PP sounds mentally ill, which doesn't surprise me a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Enjoy MAGA country for us, if cities scare you that much. I’m surprised the internet connection in your impoverished rural hellscape is strong enough to post on DCUM.

All this vitriol for someone making the obvious point that NYU is not exactly what comes to mind when people ask about beautiful college campuses?

Meh. They’re both in the wrong. Other poster called NYC crime ridden, which is frankly bullshit.

It's crime ridden compared to Sewanee, TN, and Gambier, OH.

Again, this is an Arsenal versus San Antonio Spurs comparison. Two small towns versus the most populated city in the US.

My DS at NYU travels around Manhattan on the subway at all hours without any difficulty.

Manhattan has a substantially lower rate of violent crime than other US cities (he’s actually much safer there than in his home Top 30 metro) and a lower rate of property crime than other US cities (again lower than his city of origin).

Violent crime in Manhattan is also at historic lows, which is true of a lot of US cities.

I actually feel sad for people who believe they have to send their kids to schools like Sewanee and Kenyon to feel safe.

No one cares that you're triggered. NYU is not a "most beautiful campus" by any stretch of the imagination, so you're on the wrong thread.
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Anonymous wrote:I loved, loved UC Santa Cruz! The campus is literally in a redwood forest. Every building is surrounded by huge redwoods! There are trails and wooden bridges connecting campus areas. The buildings fit into the landscape. It’s high up and the views from some of the taller building and floors at sunset are amazing. There is a short shuttle or bus into downtown and the beach areas. The walkway path and cliffs along West Cliff drive are breathtaking. Natural bridges at low tide has amazing tide pools.

The campus itself is beautiful in a way that could not be recreated anywhere else.

It felt like being on vacation. If you love nature, this is the place to be. Of course, my kids had no interest in living in nature or going to UCSC sadly.

Thank you for this. It wasn't really on our list but now I'm wondering if we should add it.... I have one kid that LOVES nature. Is there also communal green space? He really wants a school where kids are out tossing around a frisbee on a nice day, or sitting around the green with a book chit chatting.

My delightful niece is about graduate from UCSC and this sounds very much like her experience of her time there.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen quite a few campuses, albeit over a long period of time. In no particular order, the ones that stand out in my memory are:

Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Indiana University, Scripps/Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, U. of Richmond, William and Mary, West Point, Annapolis, Vassar, U. San Diego, Stanford, U. Colorado, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr

I visited Cornell and Washington on dull, overcast days, which might have negatively impacted my perceptions.

Is Washington here WashU?

I went to WashU and loved WashU. I liked its campus. But I don’t think its campus is really as pretty as what I remember of UNC’s old campus, and I think WashU’s new fake old buildings are ugly. Maybe they’ll be prettier when they get older.

I think Harvard’s Harvard Square campus is beautiful.

Hollins University’s campus is also beautiful.

Harvard looks like a gotdang boarding school. Most disappointing and underwhelming campus I've ever seen.

I agree! For me it was like, "That's it?"

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Enjoy MAGA country for us, if cities scare you that much. I’m surprised the internet connection in your impoverished rural hellscape is strong enough to post on DCUM.

All this vitriol for someone making the obvious point that NYU is not exactly what comes to mind when people ask about beautiful college campuses?

Meh. They’re both in the wrong. Other poster called NYC crime ridden, which is frankly bullshit.

It's crime ridden compared to Sewanee, TN, and Gambier, OH.

Again, this is an Arsenal versus San Antonio Spurs comparison. Two small towns versus the most populated city in the US.

My DS at NYU travels around Manhattan on the subway at all hours without any difficulty.

Manhattan has a substantially lower rate of violent crime than other US cities (he’s actually much safer there than in his home Top 30 metro) and a lower rate of property crime than other US cities (again lower than his city of origin).

Violent crime in Manhattan is also at historic lows, which is true of a lot of US cities.

I actually feel sad for people who believe they have to send their kids to schools like Sewanee and Kenyon to feel safe.

No one cares that you're triggered. NYU is not a "most beautiful campus" by any stretch of the imagination, so you're on the wrong thread.
DP

LOL, yes, the PP seems very defensive of their kid's choice to attend NYU. I posted earlier about different strokes. You want urban, go for it. My kids both wanted real college campuses, not a bunch of different buildings in a city...doesn't matter even if it is a city they would love to eventually live in. They had a definite picture in their mind what they wanted in their college life, and that involved walking around a peaceful quad between classes, not waiting at a cross walk as cars and bikers rush by.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen quite a few campuses, albeit over a long period of time. In no particular order, the ones that stand out in my memory are:

Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Indiana University, Scripps/Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, U. of Richmond, William and Mary, West Point, Annapolis, Vassar, U. San Diego, Stanford, U. Colorado, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr

I visited Cornell and Washington on dull, overcast days, which might have negatively impacted my perceptions.

Is Washington here WashU?

I went to WashU and loved WashU. I liked its campus. But I don’t think its campus is really as pretty as what I remember of UNC’s old campus, and I think WashU’s new fake old buildings are ugly. Maybe they’ll be prettier when they get older.

I think Harvard’s Harvard Square campus is beautiful.

Hollins University’s campus is also beautiful.

Harvard looks like a gotdang boarding school. Most disappointing and underwhelming campus I've ever seen.

It's more like every boarding school was built to look like Harvard...

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen quite a few campuses, albeit over a long period of time. In no particular order, the ones that stand out in my memory are:

Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Indiana University, Scripps/Pomona, Oxford, Cambridge, Duke, U. of Richmond, William and Mary, West Point, Annapolis, Vassar, U. San Diego, Stanford, U. Colorado, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr

I visited Cornell and Washington on dull, overcast days, which might have negatively impacted my perceptions.

Is Washington here WashU?

I went to WashU and loved WashU. I liked its campus. But I don’t think its campus is really as pretty as what I remember of UNC’s old campus, and I think WashU’s new fake old buildings are ugly. Maybe they’ll be prettier when they get older.

I think Harvard’s Harvard Square campus is beautiful.

Hollins University’s campus is also beautiful.

Harvard looks like a gotdang boarding school. Most disappointing and underwhelming campus I've ever seen.

It's more like every boarding school was built to look like Harvard...

Still looks like a boarding school.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Enjoy MAGA country for us, if cities scare you that much. I’m surprised the internet connection in your impoverished rural hellscape is strong enough to post on DCUM.

All this vitriol for someone making the obvious point that NYU is not exactly what comes to mind when people ask about beautiful college campuses?

Meh. They’re both in the wrong. Other poster called NYC crime ridden, which is frankly bullshit.

It's crime ridden compared to Sewanee, TN, and Gambier, OH.

Again, this is an Arsenal versus San Antonio Spurs comparison. Two small towns versus the most populated city in the US.

My DS at NYU travels around Manhattan on the subway at all hours without any difficulty.

Manhattan has a substantially lower rate of violent crime than other US cities (he’s actually much safer there than in his home Top 30 metro) and a lower rate of property crime than other US cities (again lower than his city of origin).

Violent crime in Manhattan is also at historic lows, which is true of a lot of US cities.

I actually feel sad for people who believe they have to send their kids to schools like Sewanee and Kenyon to feel safe.

No one cares that you're triggered. NYU is not a "most beautiful campus" by any stretch of the imagination, so you're on the wrong thread.
DP

LOL, yes, the PP seems very defensive of their kid's choice to attend NYU. I posted earlier about different strokes. You want urban, go for it. My kids both wanted real college campuses, not a bunch of different buildings in a city...doesn't matter even if it is a city they would love to eventually live in. They had a definite picture in their mind what they wanted in their college life, and that involved walking around a peaceful quad between classes, not waiting at a cross walk as cars and bikers rush by.

Both this and the previous post are very odd. I was actually one of the posters who said that it would be hard to characterize NYU as beautiful. I did, however, refute the absurdity that it is crime ridden as some here have done. Nor did I comment, positively or negatively, on your kid’s school choice. Perhaps, this post and the earlier one are meant to be deflections from this.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU

This is a sarcastic response, right? It's a bunch of incongruent buildings, some old, some new, some ugly, with no sense of campus or together-ness. NYU holds their graduation at Yankees Stadium outside of the city because they literally don't have a great lawn or area on their co-called campus where they can hold a graduation ceremony or gathering of any size larger than 200 people

No, seriously it's perfectly integrated into the capital city of the world. With Washington Square Park serving as its central hub, the vibe is truly unmatched by schools stuck in the middle of nowhere with boredom.

The "vibe" of NYU is urban, concrete, and rats. Enjoy!

Seriously who prefers drinking in the middle of nowhere vibe.

Much prefer a beautiful, pastoral setting to the crime-ridden, noisy, concrete jungle, but YDY.

Enjoy MAGA country for us, if cities scare you that much. I’m surprised the internet connection in your impoverished rural hellscape is strong enough to post on DCUM.

All this vitriol for someone making the obvious point that NYU is not exactly what comes to mind when people ask about beautiful college campuses?

Meh. They’re both in the wrong. Other poster called NYC crime ridden, which is frankly bullshit.

It's crime ridden compared to Sewanee, TN, and Gambier, OH.

Again, this is an Arsenal versus San Antonio Spurs comparison. Two small towns versus the most populated city in the US.

My DS at NYU travels around Manhattan on the subway at all hours without any difficulty.

Manhattan has a substantially lower rate of violent crime than other US cities (he’s actually much safer there than in his home Top 30 metro) and a lower rate of property crime than other US cities (again lower than his city of origin).

Violent crime in Manhattan is also at historic lows, which is true of a lot of US cities.

I actually feel sad for people who believe they have to send their kids to schools like Sewanee and Kenyon to feel safe.

No one cares that you're triggered. NYU is not a "most beautiful campus" by any stretch of the imagination, so you're on the wBrong thread.
DP

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Beauty is a subjective concept.
NYU campus can absolutely be considered among the most beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC is not pretty. Its very bland.

Have you been there? It's stunning!