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[Post New]04/27/2023 13:39
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Hampton

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[Post New]04/27/2023 13:42
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Radford is lovely, but they must pretty much accept anyone who applies? Even Ole Miss has a lower acceptance rate.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:13
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The Lawn at UVA and the Sunken Garden at William & Mary are iconic places.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:40
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Anonymous wrote:Radford is lovely, but they must pretty much accept anyone who applies? Even Ole Miss has a lower acceptance rate.


I think ODU actually has a higher acceptance rate
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:43
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Anonymous wrote:Sweet Briar used to be, but I haven't seen it in years.



We toured just before it shuttered and it was bleak and shabby. I don't know if the alums have managed to pump enough money back into it to make it look nice. It was in very bad shape


It hasn't been shuttered. Sweet Briar was saved by its alums. A friend of ours had a child seriously considering it, and they seemed to like the campus when they visited. Her daughter chose one of the larger state schools, but I don't think the campus was an issue.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:51
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Anonymous wrote:Radford is lovely, but they must pretty much accept anyone who applies? Even Ole Miss has a lower acceptance rate.
You are comparing Radford to a state flagship, R1 research institution? I guess you are trying to, in some way, insult both institutions. Good on you if that is your schtick. Radford's acceptance rate is really not much different from some other schools here in Virginia: ODU, VCU, GMU, Longwood.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:51
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VT.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:54
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Anonymous wrote:The Lawn at UVA and the Sunken Garden at William & Mary are iconic places.


+ Colonnade at W&L
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:54
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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.
[Post New]04/27/2023 14:57
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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.


Strange. I love it. Very peaceful. I walk it every time we visit Williamsburg.
[Post New]04/27/2023 15:00
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Hampton

https://visithampton.com/wp-content/uploads/ZOOM-Hampton-University-e1588343504245.png


Right on the water and with the most impressive church on any campus in Virginia.
[Post New]04/27/2023 15:57
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Anonymous wrote:For UVA - imo Darden and the lawn side of campus is really pretty but there are also a lot of really ugly/not in the UVA style. Clemons, Arts and Architecture buildings and some of the STEM buildings come to mind. And their new buildings don't really look that much like UVA.

W&M has the same problem on a smaller scale, but it looks like with the dorm reconstruction on west campus and the replacement of older buildings by Swem they're trying to return to the colonial style again. The b school building was built maybe 10 years ago and looks gorgeous.


I like both campuses, probably preferring W&M overall, but I differ with you in that I think both both schools are too conservative with projects for my tastes. Darden was a mini version of the lawn in an area that is far removed from the lawn. I think a less traditional approach would have been better and more appropriate for modern business education. It is out of step with what other schools have done. W&M's business school is kind of a massive traditional interpretation of the 300+ year old Wren building, and again is far removed from it in location. I think another approach for that location would have been better. (Both of these complexes had the same architect.) UVA's South Lawn project seemed kind of silly to me. UVA agonized and debated over the project, replaced architects, saw a near revolt in the Architecture school. South Lawn was a complete misnomer. It is not visible from the Lawn as the view is blocked by Cabell Hall. It is located down a hill, across a busy street, and its site is in something akin to a gully. It didn't need to try to tie back to Jeffersonian architecture. I think Jefferson would want the school to move ahead in architecture.

Perhaps both schools are a bit gun shy because their modern architecture projects in the 1960s and 1970s were not good at all and they have been trying to fix and replace them ever since. However, those project might have failed because they were too conservative. Yale had notable modern projects in that time period that have become part of the fabric of the school.


That's a really good point. I guess the big point is that the old buildings have aged gracefully and the newer contemporary-style buildings haven't. I saw for Phase 1 of William and Mary's West Campus dorm reconstruction that they're trying to create a "mini" sunken garden quad in front of the new dining hall - hope this doesn't become as much of a mess as the south lawn project.
[Post New]04/27/2023 16:12
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CNU
[Post New]04/27/2023 16:14
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Duke - by far
[Post New]04/27/2023 16:30
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Anonymous wrote:Duke - by far


Have you actually seen Duke in person? If you have, then you might want to check your map a little more closely... it's not in VA.
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