Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?

[Anonymous]

Duke is so classic no school can match the Sarah Duke gardens one of a kind!

[Anonymous]

My student is at Boston College, and it checks all of your boxes.

[Anonymous]

Sewanee has a whole damn mountain to itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Faber.

In other words Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sewanee has a whole damn mountain to itself.

Beautiful campus setting and old school Gothic architecture. Back in the mid-1800s someone basically dreamed up a mini-Oxford on the top of a Mountain and, architecturally at least, more or less pulled it off.

[Anonymous]

U Chicago - everywhere where you go there’s another archway into another beautiful courtyard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:W&M. As the second oldest campus in America, known for educating U.S. presidents and attracting intellectually curious students and professors who love teaching, it doesn’t get much more “classic.”

It’s all the same color. I lists a bit drab in that way. The trees are pretty, sunken garden but everything is the same color.

Then you hear the complaints about other campuses that they aren't cohesive with too many mismatched buildings. Hard to win.

[Anonymous]

Davidson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale

This is the only answer, if we are being honest. Can't believe we have so many pages for this question when there's a one word answer for this.

Anything outside of new england already is eliminated outside of Princeton and swarthmore.

I'd add you need crisp fall air and people wearing layers.

Central jersey is a bit too warm.

Yale

Honorable mentions: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, Amherst

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kenyon. The look screams college and the Kenyon Review is probably the most important collegiate literary publication over the past century.

I’d argue the Iowa review is much more impactful but Kenyon is gorgeous.

This is likely the nerdiest conversation ever. We can argue about whose literary review is better but I doubt anyone would argue which school has the more beautiful campus.

[Anonymous]

Duke and for non gothic old New England add Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Stupid thread. Obviously the answer is every single college that dcum kids attend.

[Anonymous]

William and Mary.

[Anonymous]

Bryn Mawr

[Anonymous]

Washington and Lee