<p>Chicaaaaaaaaaaaaaago</p>
<p>Number 1 on my list is COLUMBIA.
Stop the hating people, it kicks major gluteus maximus.</p>
<ol>
<li>Yale, Princeton, Vassar, UVA, Columbia, </li>
<li>Williams, Dartmouth, Colgate, Amherst, Chicago</li>
</ol>
<p>Hampden-Sydney College
Davidson
Colgate
Williams
Bucknell
West Point
Annapolis
Washington and Lee
Virginia
Notre Dame</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz is the prettiest of all the schools I've visted so far.</p>
<p>And maybe it's just because I've lived close to Stanford for my whole live so it dosn't seem nice, but I personally think the campus is ugly overall. It has a few nice areas, but most of it seems very unattractive IMO.</p>
<p>^strange I absolutely love the stanford campus. It really is very very nice. Of course beauty is in the eye of the beholder...</p>
<p>I vote for the University of Virginia. A while back, the school was selected by American architects as the premier architectural design in the country (not just for colleges, but for all buildings in the US). Lots of other schools have copied the Rotunda and others have also tried to create versions of The Lawn and some other schools even have copied UVA's serpentine walls, but nothing matches the splendor of Jefferson's creation. The central architectural theme of the Lawn has been carried across most of the rest of the school and the overall integrated look is beautiful and distinctive.</p>
<p>University of Virginia has a gorgeous campus.</p>
<p>Yale? Campus? </p>
<p>You mean the old City of New Haven.</p>
<p>Florida State University...historical, beautiful - especially in the spring. Talk about spring fever! Azaleas galore. Plus one or two pretty coeds...</p>
<p>Chicago..........!!</p>
<p>IU Bloomington, Northwestern, Oberlin</p>
<p>W&M hasn't been mentioned yet.</p>
<p>few others:
West Point
UVA (although... they don't actually have a "campus", eh? =P)
Princeton
Richmond (I, as someone else mentioned, am not a big fan of the parking lots)</p>
<p>different people look for different things, so this is obviously a very subjective thread =)</p>
<p>Hands down, UNC Chapel Hill has the nicest campus as far as appearance and such. When I visited, I felt like I was in the middle of a forest village, only there were buildings all around and technology did exist. They have a great college town literally right outside their doorstep. If I were basing my choice of school on college campus alone, I would go there without question.</p>
<p>I actually agree with somebody who posted earlier saying this...Stanford has a very ugly campus. It has never appealed to me, and I doubt it ever will.</p>
<p>Subjective indeed and definitely biased if you haven't seen them all. </p>
<p>Regardless, I will third the vote for Iowa State. It is surprisingly pretty for being in the middle of the Iowa cornfields - a leafy oasis. </p>
<p>I tend to judge a campus by the beauty of it's central campus and the amount of trees it has along with the architecture of the buildings - the less 1970 era concrete buildings the better. I would put Wash U on the list - very compact, lots of trees, gothic buildings and a beautiful quad with a sense of entrance at Brookings. The surrounding area is beautiful as well with stately brick homes, tree lined streets and Forest Park across from the entrance.</p>
<p>yale is gorgeous. no question.</p>
<p>Hamilton and Middlebury</p>
<p>From the colleges I've seen (no particular order):</p>
<p>Virginia
SMU
Colorado-Boulder
TCU
Baylor</p>
<p>Texas Tech has a certain likable quality as well.</p>
<p>Worst: Texas A&M, followed by Colorado State</p>
<p>Campuses I will be visiting for the first time in the next few months:
Miami (OH)
Notre Dame
Michigan
South Carolina
Richmond
UPenn</p>
<p>Miami of Ohio is beautiful.</p>
<p>nathanTX07, I actually like the Texas A&M campus! College Station scares me though. I always think I'm going to get lynched by the Republicans there :]</p>
<p>In my opinion, best campuses:
Wellesley, Princeton, Dartmouth, Vassar</p>
<p>ohh miss zanna, Texas A&M's campus layout is nice, and a few buildings are nice, but others lack imagination. I suppose they were built in the "functional" style. </p>
<p>As far as your sentiments on College Station, I usually feel the same way there :]</p>