<p>Here is where I have been:</p>
<p>UChicago (awesome architecture and decent amount of green space for an urban school)
Harvard (big crowded campus, but still good looking IMHO)
Yale (the colleges! the library! not the greatest layout but still amazing)
Dartmouth (Baker Library is alright, the rest is crap...the greenery and such was cool but honestly I wasn't impressed)
UIUC (main quad was pretty sweet, it was impressive for a state school)</p>
<p>1) West Point
2) UNC
3) Yale
4) Pepperdine
5) Williams
6) Michigan
7) Kings Point
8) USC
9) Dartmouth
10) USNA</p>
<p>Nathan, don't get your expectations up for Michigan's beauty. Interesting school and interesting town, but I live 20 minutes from it and have been there a million times, and the word "beautiful" never came to mind. It's kind of impressive (massive buildings) and classy, but there must be hundreds of colleges in the country that are more beautiful.</p>
<p>Variables that make threads like this tough:</p>
<p>People prefer some types of architecture to others.</p>
<p>Some people prefer one type of architecture to dominate a school; others like a mixture.</p>
<p>Some people include the view of the surrounding area or the surrounding area itself in their evaluation of the schools' beauty; others limit their evaluation to the campus itself.</p>
<p>West Point/William & Mary/Stanford/Richmond/Wake Forest/Rice/Cal Tech/Amherst/Davidson</p>
<p>this is a taste kinda thing right? I guess there's no correct answer. It's just which campus looks better to you. How many of you have visited more than 10 campuses?</p>
<p>In no particular order: Stanford, Princeton, Cornell, Duke, Wellesley, Yale,
I didn't find Uchicago pretty. Yes, they had the ivy growing up the buildings and such, but the campus was much too small and didn't have an enclosure feel to the campus. you drive past a ghetto and oh! there's Uchicago. the other campuses feel like a real campus when you step in</p>
<p>I?ll probably be one of the few who think this, but I believe MIT's campus is really nice. I've always been fond of modern architecture. True, it lacks the greens and historic buildings of Harvard or Princeton, but its quirkiness is enduring.</p>
<p>Wellesley does have a beautiful campus, but I didn't find the dorms inviting at all.</p>
<p>Duke, Stanford, West Point, Holy Cross, Bowdoin, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I haven't visited that many, but i've been to cornell several times, and here's my take: first couple times i went, i thought it was the awesomest thing in the universe. I still think its landscape and gorges are incredible. But the last time i went i started nitpicking the buildings more...really only a few sections have beautiful buildings (and they are beautiful) but a lot of parts like the ag quad are really sorta lame. I don't like the plant science building that's like 10 stories high with no windows.</p>
<p>The first planned campus in America is Union's. Its symmetry, charm, and intimacy are incomparable.</p>
<p>Can anyone describe the College of Charleston campus to this northerner? Daughter may end up at that safety for financial reasons, and we haven't had a chance to visit yet. Your help is appreciated! (The good and the bad, please.)</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara is pretty amazing. So is Georgetown</p>
<p>in no particular order:
UVA
Gettysburg
Bennington
Vassar
Middlebury</p>
<p>stanford's campus is overrated, as is the amherst campus. </p>
<p>williams is gorgeous, as is pepperdine and UCSB.</p>
<p>Williams has nice views of the mountains, but I don't get what's so amazing about the campus itself.</p>
<p>holy crap Zuma, it looks like a well-mainted golf course</p>
<p>Club Midd?</p>
<p>Clemson is Beautiful!</p>
<p>Wash U in St. Louis is amazing!</p>