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Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA

I find that all SLACs look the same. They all blend right into each other.

They really don’t. How many have you visited?

Many. It’s ok if you don’t agree. We’re allowed to have our own opinions.

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Anonymous wrote:Colorado Boulder or CC?

University of Colorado. I'm sure Colorado College is a great school, but give me Boulder over Colorado Springs by a large margin. (Ditto for Fort Collins and Colorado State.)

The best description I have seen of the Springs: it’s like Portland Oregon and Birmingham Alabama had a baby. Spot on!

I’m glad I missed the conception stage of that child.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to take a list that does not include UCLA seriously.

UCLA is pretty meh outside of one quad.

Nice tents though.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA

I find that all SLACs look the same. They all blend right into each other.

Completely agree.

Really? You think Colorado College looks like Swarthmore?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA

I find that all SLACs look the same. They all blend right into each other.

Completely agree.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t find UVA or UNC appealing, both average. This is a bizarre list of someone that hasn’t seen many schools.

In general, state flagships to me look all the same with different paint jobs. The only exception, to me, is UCLA

I find that all SLACs look the same. They all blend right into each other.

They really don’t. How many have you visited?

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Anonymous wrote:Colorado Boulder or CC?

University of Colorado. I'm sure Colorado College is a great school, but give me Boulder over Colorado Springs by a large margin. (Ditto for Fort Collins and Colorado State.)

The best description I have seen of the Springs: it’s like Portland Oregon and Birmingham Alabama had a baby. Spot on!

These stood out to me-

Swarthmore
Smith
Dartmouth
Yale
Stanford
Oxford
Middlebury
Furman
Elon
Colby
Wellesley

Anonymous wrote:Colorado Boulder or CC?

University of Colorado. I'm sure Colorado College is a great school, but give me Boulder over Colorado Springs by a large margin. (Ditto for Fort Collins and Colorado State.)

Colorado Boulder or CC?

I take this list as serious as USNWR's other rankings, which is not very much. That said, here are my favorite campuses:

UCLA
UC Santa Cruz
Pomona
Scripps
Williams
Swarthmore
Dartmouth
Smith

Honorable mention: Lewis & Clark, Colorado, Texas, and Washington. The last three are less about campus beauty than having a fun campus/town vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to take a list that does not include UCLA seriously.

UCLA is pretty meh outside of one quad.

I think the setting is pleasant and weather is great, but I would agree that overall architecture and plan is not distinguished.

Anonymous wrote:Hard to take a list that does not include UCLA seriously.

UCLA is pretty meh outside of one quad.

My favorites are Cambridge, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, Colorado, University of San Diego, William and Mary, Duke, Sewanee, and West Point

Just looked at the Wikipedia photos of both U Montana & Montana State. U Montana's campus is beautiful, well laid out, in a great setting,and appears to be the more attractive of the two.

Visiting an empty campus in the summer can be misleading. Also, I imagine that we were tired & probably stressed from other factors.