s/o Most Beautiful College Campuses

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton and Yale will always be my top two in terms of campus beauty: Yale for the beauty of individual buildings and Princeton for the overall campus appeal.

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DC didn't like the “mismatched” and crowded architecture at Princeton. Quite a few newer (but not the newest) buildings were truly ugly and detracted from the more beautiful parts. And it felt like they were squeezed in haphazardly. But we loved having Nassau Street right there, and the art/sculptures on campus were fantastic!

DC thought Duke was much prettier. Same Gothic architecture but laid out in quads with a more spacious feel. The newer buildings seem to mirror the Gothic style in modern and interesting ways, and didn’t feel crammed in. And the gardens are gorgeous! Downside is no cute town within walking distance (except off of the Freshman campus on East - which also very pretty with completely different architecture than the main campus.)

Duke's campus is separated by a freeway.

We thought of them as two separate campuses. Each is self-contained and beautiful - and an easy shuttle bus ride to the other when needed.

It is not a freeway - I ran Campus Drive easily a thousand times and mostly it was bus traffic and I often ran on the road. How anyone could be so inaccurate is a mystery.

Any map will show you Duke East and West are separated by the Durham Freeway.

Again what a dumb comment. Campus Drive goes underneath the freeway. Have you ever been to Duke?

Why are you attempting to deflect something that is so readily apparent? There is a freeway that separates East and West campuses. Yes, there is a road that connects the campuses, but the campuses are not contiguous. This is not different from other schools like JMU, where there is an interstate dividing its east and west campus. I didn't claim you had to risk your life dodging cars and trucks to traverse from one to the other.

You can spend years on Campus Drive and never know the freeway exists. Again, don’t be stupid. I probably ran 1500 miles on Campus Drive - something you clearly did not do - and know every inch of it.

Maybe the bus exhaust fumes affected your senses ?

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Oxford and Cambridge have it all for beautiful architecture, gardens and spaces, and history. I can't think of a U.S. school that is competitive. You would have to throw in natural surroundings to have any case for a U.S. school.

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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.

I agree. I think SMU has a beautiful campus, but they've done so much "infill" development in the green space, that it's not as pretty as it used to be.

This is also true of UC Santa Cruz. They are going to infill the gorgeous meadow.

Oh no! I visited UCSC 30 years ago, and I thought it was the most unbelievably gorgeous place I had ever seen ever.

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I’ve personally visited many colleges in MA, MD, VA, DC, MO, CA. The only one I fell in love with is WashU. I wish I studied or worked or lived there. I would only do full pay for HYPSM + WashU or state schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Oxford and Cambridge have it all for beautiful architecture, gardens and spaces, and history. I can't think of a U.S. school that is competitive. You would have to throw in natural surroundings to have any case for a U.S. school.

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

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Anonymous wrote:Name some beautiful college campuses and why you found them beautiful. Urban, suburban and rural. I'll start. I drove through Massachusetts as a teenager and stopped to drive around the campus of Mt. Holyoke. I was 18 and about to go away to college myself but I fell in love with the campus. I sent away for the brochure and looked at it all of the time. I didn't apply because it was way too expensive and I didn't want to burden my single parent mother.

Hollins University’s quadrangle. Lots of pretty white trim:

Sweet Briar is beautiful. That didn't keep it from nearly going under.

The Seven Sisters colleges have some gems, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Vassar in particular.

Actually, it kinda did.

Sweet Briar has the prettiest campus I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. I wish dd had been as impressed by that as I am, because they also have their own reasonably-priced hotel/conference center and I was planning on visiting... A lot.

Most colleges have *some* lovely stuff. I'm trying to think of exceptions:

NYU, Portland State, Skidmore, Drexel, RIT, MICA, Art Institute of Chicago, Fresno State....

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

DP, but native Texans are more likely to be Democrats and, if the state wasn't gerrymandered to Republican dreams, it would be a blue state. It's overwhelmingly Republican transplants and a growing movement to the right by border hispanic populations that is soon to sink the state, however.

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Anonymous wrote:Name some beautiful college campuses and why you found them beautiful. Urban, suburban and rural. I'll start. I drove through Massachusetts as a teenager and stopped to drive around the campus of Mt. Holyoke. I was 18 and about to go away to college myself but I fell in love with the campus. I sent away for the brochure and looked at it all of the time. I didn't apply because it was way too expensive and I didn't want to burden my single parent mother.

Hollins University’s quadrangle. Lots of pretty white trim:

Sweet Briar is beautiful. That didn't keep it from nearly going under.

The Seven Sisters colleges have some gems, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, and Vassar in particular.

Actually, it kinda did.

Sweet Briar has the prettiest campus I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. I wish dd had been as impressed by that as I am, because they also have their own reasonably-priced hotel/conference center and I was planning on visiting... A lot.

Most colleges have *some* lovely stuff. I'm trying to think of exceptions:

NYU, Portland State, Skidmore, Drexel, RIT, MICA, Art Institute of Chicago, Fresno State....

It might have contributed to help keeping it from going under, but not from it nearly going under.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale? Really? Uc San Diego. Pepperdine. Naval academy. Utah.

UCSD and Pepperdine?? You are probably thinking more about their oceanside locations than the campuses themselves.

I am. The view from the campus is part of the campus.

UCSD is the ugliest campus I’ve seen, bare none. So disappointing. Can’t imagine describing the brutalist, run down buildings as beautiful. The coastal fog doesn’t help.

UCSB, however, does manage to overcome boring architecture, but it is literally on the beach.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve personally visited many colleges in MA, MD, VA, DC, MO, CA. The only one I fell in love with is WashU. I wish I studied or worked or lived there. I would only do full pay for HYPSM + WashU or state schools.

I posted something similar above. My guess is that people who are saying the area is bad have not actually been to Clayton. Our UVA bound neighbor was at Wash U for a work event and said the same thing- it is beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

DP, but native Texans are more likely to be Democrats and, if the state wasn't gerrymandered to Republican dreams, it would be a blue state. It's overwhelmingly Republican transplants and a growing movement to the right by border hispanic populations that is soon to sink the state, however.

Is this satire? Native Texans are absolutely more likely to be Republicans. I’m originally from Texas and actually laughed when I read this post.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

DP, but native Texans are more likely to be Democrats and, if the state wasn't gerrymandered to Republican dreams, it would be a blue state. It's overwhelmingly Republican transplants and a growing movement to the right by border hispanic populations that is soon to sink the state, however.

Is this satire? Native Texans are absolutely more likely to be Republicans. I’m originally from Texas and actually laughed when I read this post.
DP

Not sure this is wholly correct. Texas is a minority majority state. It is heavily gerrymandered and, to be frank, a non-voting state. Where I'm from (San Antonio), only 10% of voters will turn out in a 65% hispanic city. Note that most Hispanics are conservatives but if everyone voted in fair districts, the state would be way more competitive.

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Anonymous wrote:We thought Wash U was gorgeous.

Except it's in Missouri

So what? Why do you hate America so much?

America is amazing! Missouri is not.

St. Louis is blue. Missouri could easily go blue. Maybe you post like this to discourage Democrats from moving to Missouri and casting votes in Missouri.

That’s like saying cities in TX are blue

Texas could easily go blue. The people telling liberal and progressive students to avoid Texas are either foolish or Republicans.

DP, but native Texans are more likely to be Democrats and, if the state wasn't gerrymandered to Republican dreams, it would be a blue state. It's overwhelmingly Republican transplants and a growing movement to the right by border hispanic populations that is soon to sink the state, however.

Is this satire? Native Texans are absolutely more likely to be Republicans. I’m originally from Texas and actually laughed when I read this post.
DP

I'm from Texas too, what part were you in? Most of the cities are boring liberals. Most of the republican counties, well...I never travelled in those. The state has actual gerrymandering issues and why would most liberals vote, they get no incentive. Even then, in recent races its been pretty close

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Anonymous wrote:Yale? Really? Uc San Diego. Pepperdine. Naval academy. Utah.

UCSD and Pepperdine?? You are probably thinking more about their oceanside locations than the campuses themselves.

I am. The view from the campus is part of the campus.

UCSD is the ugliest campus I’ve seen, bare none. So disappointing. Can’t imagine describing the brutalist, run down buildings as beautiful. The coastal fog doesn’t help.

UCSB, however, does manage to overcome boring architecture, but it is literally on the beach.

And even better, you can get good architecture and views at UCSC