s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Anonymous wrote:UVM, Stanford

I’m a Stanford alum and I agree that Palm Drive and the quad are stunning. Beyond that, not so much.

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Anonymous wrote:Swarthmore

Yes — the rose garden, the arboretum, the amphitheater — just beautiful

Maybe, but don’t step foot off campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Indiana University - it just seems to be the textbook version of what a college campus should be. Lots of pretty old buildings and beautiful landscaping/green areas

University of Chicago- this is the perfect urban campus. So many other urban schools are just plunked into a city without any sense of cohesion, but University of Chicago has beautiful buildings and a great campus

Flagler College- it used to be a hotel and the main building is just gorgeous. The cafeteria is incredible.

Chicago really has an amazing variety of architecture — from traditional Collegiate Gothic in the quad to Brutalist — Regenstein Library to IM Pei’s stinning law school building to a Frank Lloyd Wright house — an extraordinary collection of buildings that hangs together through the street grid, paths and Midway Plaisance. It’s a modern version of Jefferson’s “academic village”.

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Duke, Wake Forest, Cornell, Notre Dame, UVA. Definitely not UNC.

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I went to Wake Forest, so I’m partial. Just gorgeous (and boy do they pour an incredible amount of time and money to keep it that way). I did prefer it before it was quite so built up.

W&M. The blending into colonial Williamsburg makes it amazing and one of a kind.

The prettiest school I have visited with my kid: St. Olaf. Not as much the grounds and the building. All the Norwegian/Scandinavian buildings with the beautiful wood and high ceilings and light filled spaces make the architecture and indoor spaces beautiful. It’s very unique.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Wake Forest, so I’m partial. Just gorgeous (and boy do they pour an incredible amount of time and money to keep it that way). I did prefer it before it was quite so built up.

W&M. The blending into colonial Williamsburg makes it amazing and one of a kind.

The prettiest school I have visited with my kid: St. Olaf. Not as much the grounds and the building. All the Norwegian/Scandinavian buildings with the beautiful wood and high ceilings and light filled spaces make the architecture and indoor spaces beautiful. It’s very unique.

* grounds as the buildings. And the inside of the buildings should be gorgeous. The MN winter means there are several months kids are not hanging out outside.

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Dartmouth
Wisconsin
Wellesley
Stanford
Santa Clara
UVM
Bowdoin

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University of Richmond gets my vote!

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Scripps college is gorgeous.

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Sewanee, Kenyon, Vassar, Richmond, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Swarthmore, and William and Mary have been nice to visit.

I think Chicago is the nicest urban campus I've seen.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Wake Forest, Cornell, Notre Dame, UVA. Definitely not UNC.

I visited UNC a long time ago and thought it was beautiful. But the last time I was there I got the distinct impression it had been overbuilt. Someone mentioned Stanford earlier, and I got the same impression there. Obviously schools need to expand, but it can come at a price.

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College of the Holy Cross in Mass.

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For large schools, I think Indiana and Colorado are quite nice. I agree that Chicago is really nice for an urban setting. There are a lot of nice small schools that have been mentioned. My favorites, though, are Cambridge and Oxford. They can be looked at as a collection of small colleges competing with each other on attractiveness.

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Swarthmore
Princeton is the prettiest of the Ivies I think (and, no, it's not the one I went to )
UVA has a lovely quad, but the look is very specific and its gets pretty generic once you get past the heart of campus

U-Md, no, sorry. I do like St. Mary's tho.

Have never seen the Cali schools...