Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 09:33     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Of universities I've visited, Duke and U Chicago. Many of the stronger small colleges - e.g. Swarthmore, Williams, and Haverford, but there are dozens of others - because it's easier to get that ivy covered quad look when you have fewer buildings.

Duke is a basketball team which happens to have a campus they operate in. Not classic academia.


Yes, Tar Heel, the UNC campus is also nice.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 09:33     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a random one but Oglethorpe on the edge of Atlanta is actually a really nice campus.


I'm surprised anyone else has heard of it, but I was going to suggest this one too. It really is a beautiful place.


Many years ago I briefly lived in Atlanta and commuted past it every day - I don't think I ever went on the campus but from the road it looked beautiful. I think there is an athletic field in the middle of the campus Just before I drove past the Old Brick Pit, which is a classic BBQ spot.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 09:01     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:Of universities I've visited, Duke and U Chicago. Many of the stronger small colleges - e.g. Swarthmore, Williams, and Haverford, but there are dozens of others - because it's easier to get that ivy covered quad look when you have fewer buildings.

Duke is a basketball team which happens to have a campus they operate in. Not classic academia.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:57     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:This is a random one but Oglethorpe on the edge of Atlanta is actually a really nice campus.


I'm surprised anyone else has heard of it, but I was going to suggest this one too. It really is a beautiful place.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:56     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
No to Penn and Brown.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:55     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
UPenn, Brown, Oxford. Some of the SLACs
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:53     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:U Chicago - everywhere where you go there’s another archway into another beautiful courtyard.


But it all looks like it's falling apart. We toured last summer. Paint was peeling on all the door and window trims, massive amount of weeds everywhere in the gardens. It looks like a landscaper hadn't been through in 3 years (not 2 months). I kept thinking, "wow, if they put a few million into some routine maintenance (paint, a gardener) into this place they could improve it 100%."

I was really disappointed.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:45     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Despite being in an awful neighborhood, Fordham's Bronx campus is very nice.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:44     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
This is a random one but Oglethorpe on the edge of Atlanta is actually a really nice campus.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:38     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:lol wtf is "classic academia"


Good will hunting. Lots of the hoity toity people on this website envision their brilliant children having deep conversations with a beaded professors wearing tweed jackets with elbow pads at night in an open air covered walkway.

In reality they’re cheating on tests and papers, acting like jerks to anyone not in their social/economic status, and then going to work at daddy’s friend’s firm when they graduate from law/mba school.


Yeah, I was thinking Dead Poets Society vibes even though that's high school. They filmed at St. Andrew's boarding school in DE I believe.


Correct. I went to a sports camp at St. Andrew's in elementary school. The movie came out when I was in middle school and made me want to transfer to boarding school. That wasn't really an option so I briefly thought a top SLAC (ideally Williams, otherwise Amherst or Bowdoin) would help me replicate that experience but I eventually realized it was a movie and I needed to go somewhere bigger.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 08:11     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:lol wtf is "classic academia"


Good will hunting. Lots of the hoity toity people on this website envision their brilliant children having deep conversations with a beaded professors wearing tweed jackets with elbow pads at night in an open air covered walkway.

In reality they’re cheating on tests and papers, acting like jerks to anyone not in their social/economic status, and then going to work at daddy’s friend’s firm when they graduate from law/mba school.


Yeah, I was thinking Dead Poets Society vibes even though that's high school. They filmed at St. Andrew's boarding school in DE I believe.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 07:47     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Anonymous wrote:I'm more interested in "New Academia". The new trend where parents and students realize they don't have to pay 70,000 plus a year for undergraduate degree to go to great schools and have great careers.

Clearly, you are unfamiliar with the current job market.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 07:16     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
I'm more interested in "New Academia". The new trend where parents and students realize they don't have to pay 70,000 plus a year for undergraduate degree to go to great schools and have great careers.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 07:06     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Indiana U.
Richmond
Miami U (Ohio)
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2025 06:52     Subject: Which College Feels the Most "Collegiate" or Classic Academia?
Harvard
William & Mary

OP is asking for vibe and rich academic history. Both of these schools embody these characteristics the most.