Anonymous wrote:W&M. As the second oldest campus in America, known for educating U.S. presidents and attracting intellectually curious students and professors who love teaching, it doesn’t get much more “classic.”

+1

Wake Forest has it all.

Anonymous wrote:Visit the Duke Gardens in April when the tulips are majestic and Wisteria us out and roses are beginning to bloom. One of the top 5 tourist destinations in NC. Add in the soaring Duke Chapel and the West Campus Gothic quads. How many other colleges can claim 2 distinct 4-5 star hotels on campus with a top shelf 18 hole golf course with tall Carolina pines along the fairways.

So North Carolina-class, not world class at all

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.

Yale.

Hands down.

lol wtf is "classic academia"

Chicago when they're change ringing.

Visit the Duke Gardens in April when the tulips are majestic and Wisteria us out and roses are beginning to bloom. One of the top 5 tourist destinations in NC. Add in the soaring Duke Chapel and the West Campus Gothic quads. How many other colleges can claim 2 distinct 4-5 star hotels on campus with a top shelf 18 hole golf course with tall Carolina pines along the fairways.

Anonymous wrote:Duke, UChicago, and Princeton.

Agree with this!

Mant think of Oxbridge as the image of a classic collegiate environment and Yale and Princeton are the closest in the U.S.

Anonymous wrote:Duke is so classic no school can match the Sarah Duke gardens one of a kind!

Visited Oxford recently and the gardens, botanical garden, and arboretum easily too Duke IMO.

I went to Yale and it definitely felt classic, collegiate and majestic. It was a really inspiring place.

Anonymous wrote:If you’re talking quintessential American academia, you’re talking about New England region only. Yale and north.

Totally disagree. Sewanee and Berry College were mentioned - they are both stunningly beautiful. Duke, W&L, UMW - lots of southern schools have that classic look.

If you’re talking quintessential American academia, you’re talking about New England region only. Yale and north.

Yale

I think Williams is especially dramatic at night, but not so much by day. Their landscaping is only so so