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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Both U Virginia & College of William & Mary are on the list.

U Chicago, Northwestern, Berry College, Stanford, Princeton, Wellesley College, Bryn Mawr, U Colorado-Boulder, U Washington-Seattle, Rice, Lewis & Clark College, Yale, Duke, Furman University, Wisconsin-Madison, Kenyon College, Notre Dame, Bard, Michigan, Vanderbilt, Flagler College, Florida Southern, Sewanee-The Univ. of the South, UVA, Wm. & Mary, U San Diego, Cornell, Swarthmore College, U Georgia, & U Hawaii.[/quote]

It’s clear that whoever put this list together has never been to Pepperdine [/quote]
As someone from a beach town in Southern California, I never found the Pepperdine campus to be all that impressive. I would choose the campuses of UC San Diego, University of San Diego, or UC Santa Barbara over Pepperdine any day of the week. Sure it's a good view, the actually campus itself has mainly ugly buildings and is far away from most of LA and non beach related activities.

But hey, to each their own. I'd probably remove about half the campuses from the list I've visited as well.[/quote]

Also grew up in LA. went to USC. Daughter is at UCLA. But cmon. UCSD is not pretty. USD is definitely a beautiful campus. UC Santa Barbara has some pretty buildings, but overall not as pretty as USD. TO deny the fact that Pepperdine has the best setting of all of these CA schools is ridiculous. Sure the buildings are not that pretty, but from the inside, the views are amazing. You will spend most of your time inside. And basically every other building there has glass walls facing the pacific. The setting is unrivaled in the West Coast. I would have traded that campus and views for mine at USC in an instant…..[/quote]Congrats to your daughter for attending UCLA - it's a big upgrade over USC, but you know that.

Once you get used to the beach views at Pepperdine, you're stuck with ugly buildings, brown and fire-burned hills, and not much of a town. Though it's always fun spotting someone famous late at night at the grocery store. Some people love those views, but I'd choose La Jolla and Santa Barbara any day of the week over Malibu. And UCSD has the Giesel Library, which is one of the few cool brutalist buildings worth seeing.[/quote]

:lol: Thank you for the Dig!!! Touché. yes, I’m glad she is at UCLA and not USC. But I’m sorry. Growing in MB, I’m just a sucker for ocean views. I hated USC campus. I would rather have views of the pacific 360 days per year than views of another building on most campuses. Sure, LaJolla is nice. I would prefer that too. Malibu is a small town. But you are close to the action if you want action. I hate brutalist architecture. So Geisel for me is horrible. UCSD is ugly. USD on the other is beautiful. [/quote]

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