Colleges with the nicest campus?

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<p>Any campus that was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted ([Olmsted</a> School Campuses - School Campuses Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted](<a href=“http://architecture.about.com/od/landscapedesign/a/olmstedcampus.htm]Olmsted”>Great Buildings and Structures in Architechure) and <a href=“Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia”>Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia) is gorgeous!</p>

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<p>Cranbrook Academy of Art</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/AboutUs.html[/url]”>http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/AboutUs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>[Cranbrook</a> Academy of Art: Video Tours](<a href=“http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/VideoTours.html]Cranbrook”>http://www.cranbrookart.edu/Pages/VideoTours.html)</p>

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<p>Penn States looks great in the snow and in the fall.</p>

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<p>Penn State during a heavy blizzard. See below.</p>

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<p>Another vote for Vassar college</p>

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<p>I’ve visited schools from the West Coast all the way to the East Coast (only in the US,) and have looked at numerous pictures of hundreds of top schools. I feel that Swarthmore is the most aesthetic campus. The whole school is an arboretum (every single tree and bush on campus is labeled and maintained constantly.) I bet that place looks like Narnia in the winter.</p>

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<p>And ugliest?.. I’d pick Harvey Mudd.</p>

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<p>I’m putting in a vote for my own school (Wake Forest), partially because I’m biased and partially because every time I walk around campus with my out-of-town coworkers I see them taking pictures and hear them mutter about how beautiful it is here.</p>

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<p>Agree 100% with you Marshall… We first visited in the winter ( it was Narnia), and returned in the spring… Wow !!</p>

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<p>UC Berkeley.</p>

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<p>Columbia and Barnard. The first is neoclassical and the second is Beaux Artes, and they are enclosed enclaves amid the city. Broadway there is wide with trees in a center island in parts of it. Perfect.</p>

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<p>The Grounds at UVA. The Domain at Sewanee. (Also most pompous terms used instead of “campus”.)</p>

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<p>Time to give some obligated love to Caltech!</p>

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<p>Carthage has stunning views of Lake Michigan. On the tour our guide exclaimed, “When I graduate I may never be able to afford real estate with this kind of water view again”. Underclassmen have little chance of getting lakeside view dorm rooms.</p>

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<p>Middlebury!</p>

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<p>the are so many wonderful and interesting campuses around the country and, i guess, a few duds, too. but rather than simply name a school i think posters should describe the aesthetic experience, that instant when beauty was revealed, what factors were at play, and whether they were important consideration in one’s ultimate choice of school.</p>

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<p>I know most people will disagree with me on this, but I loved Penn’s campus. As soon as I stepped within their gates, the honking cars and the city-like atmosphere seemed to evaporate… it was almost magical. I also enjoyed their architecture; there was a mystical, sort of eerie feel to them.</p>

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Caltech’s campus was much nicer than I expected. It’s not so great from the street, but it’s very pleasant once you cross onto campus. All of the pools (library pool, turtle pond, DNA fountain) are pretty neat, and the wisteria livens things up. Add some swinging benches and the campus would be just about perfect.</p>

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<p>Pomona. Too perfect almost.</p>

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<p>Kenyon, hands down.</p>