<p>I can't seem to find a lot of picture's of the campus. The most I've seen are of some of the outer buildings that surround campus, and from the look of it, they weren't too flattering. Does Penn have a nice campus? Is it in a nice area? Anyone have any decent pictures?</p>
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<p>University</a> of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>As you can see from the pictures, the Penn campus if beautiful.</p>
<p>This past spring I did a east coast urban highly ranked school tour (or live close to) ... Penn, Yale, Hopkins, Georgetown, Columbia, Barnard, NYU, MIT, Harvard, Brown, Tufts, BC ... and to me Pann has the nicest campus of the bunch. There is more variety to the architecture and the grounds themselves has terrain changes and trees / plants that are very interesting ... the Penn campus itself WAY exceeded my expectations.</p>
<p>A different discussion would be the Philly neighborhood in which Penn is located ... not the greatest ... but it is very close to great parts of Philly.</p>
<p>I should have added ... the Penn campus would be on my short list of beautiful campuses anywhere (urban or not).</p>
<p>^^Agree. We did almost the exact same tour including a few others along the route like Princeton. D was instantly wowed by Penn compared to the others. She had recruiting visits on each campus and especially loved the historical significance of the Palestra...and then there was Locust Walk to seal the deal for her.</p>
<p>Wow. To each his own. I think the Penn campus is perfectly nice, but I doubt it would make my top 50 of the most beautiful campuses anywhere.</p>
<p>It WOULD make my list of the 8 most beautiful campuses in the Ivy League, though. (But if I were listing the 7 most beautiful campuses in the Ivy League . . . no.)</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong. No one should fail to apply to Penn because it is ugly. It's not. There are just some parts that are a little less beautiful than others. And some of them are very big and tall.</p>
<p>I just don't understand why most of the pictures of Penn are more or less unflattering. Maybe its because I was expecting Princeton or Yale, but it looks more of a mix between Columbia and Harvard. I like the pics but where are there pics of the stuff that simply floored some of you?</p>
<p>There's a different between pictures and real life. You have to be there at Penn to really understand its beauty.</p>
<p>the campus is not that pretty. Locust walk is nice and the rest is fine. I am applying to penn, my mom went there and many of my friends attend there, so Its nothing against the school, but the campus definitely is not up to comparable school standards. I visited Georgetown, Columbia, HYPS, Tufts and some others. Penn was fine, but was not nearly as nice imo as HYPSC.</p>
<p>I would've figured that Columbia and Penn would've had similar looking campuses. Both are in major urban areas and are at the same level academically. So Columbia looks nicer than Penn, even though Columbia is only a few blocks long?</p>
<p>it is beautiful.</p>
<p>but somehow the beautiful campus stuck in the middle of a bustling and kinda dirty city doesn't really click with me.</p>
<p>short answer: no. BUT YOUR GOING THERE FOR THE EDUATION AMIRITE</p>
<p>personally i like penn's campus more than columbia's</p>
<p>but i think the only good measurement is your own evaluation of as many pictures as you can find, if you can't visit the campuses in person</p>
<p>From the school's I've visited</p>
<p>Penn>Stanford>Berkeley>UofC (I have a thing for urban schools)>Northwestern>London SE> University College of London> UCLA>UCSD>SDState>Drexel>UCSB>Loyola Marymount>BGSU>Carnegie-Mellon>UCR>UCD</p>
<p>I love Penn. Locust is awesome, architecture is incredible. The Quad is unbelievable, it feels like London all over again. I'm out of adjectives. You get the idea.</p>
<p>There's something really special about Penn's campus, IMO. Locust Walk is beautiful and there is such a sense of history that pervades its all. Having said that, it's not to everyone's tastes.</p>
<p>I agree with some of the others. I don't think many choose Penn solely for the beauty of the campus (though JHS, I think it beats at least Brown in the Ivies). Locust Walk is definitely quite nice on a fall day, the vibe is wonderful and the academics are excellent. Off the top of my head, among the colleges I've visited, Princeton, Cornell, Duke, Dartmouth, Lehigh, Tufts & University of Miami all have it beat for pure esthetics.</p>
<p>I like Penn's campus better than Brown's or Harvard's. I am not a fan of the surrounding area, as you all know. I do think the campus is beautiful.</p>
<p>I am visiting Brown's campus on Saturday and I hope to visit Dartmouth next weekend. I probably won't visiting Penn until I have some time off.</p>
<p>My favorite campus is Columbia's. Neoclassical is awesome and manages to make a paltry 36 acre campus look huge. Those dead white men sure knew what they were doing.</p>
<p>Harvard is eminently underwhelming, redeemed only by Harvard Square/Cambridge, Memorial Hall--oh, and the "It's Harvard" part.</p>
<p>Brown is like a mini-Harvard. Fail.</p>
<p>Princeton is beautiful and would be great were it not for all the Princeton kids there.</p>
<p>Yale is beautiful, but nothing original. It's straight collegiate gothic, like Oxbridge.</p>
<p>I think Penn has both the most beautiful and unique buildings in the Ivy League, as well as the worst. The Furness Library is far more meaningful and powerful than another fake Oxford gothic building). College and Logan Hall are frickin' green.</p>
<p>Even the otherwise-unoriginal Quad is a unique blend of Gothic ornament on a palate of brick, reflecting Philadelphia and Penn's place at the crossroads of industry and ivory towers.</p>
<p>And on the other hand, you have the high rises, which are horrific failures and mercilessly imposing their mammoth scale on the rest of the campus, standing as monuments to Penn's chronically underfunded state. They were built as the result of a cut budget (cheaper than building low-rises), and they stand today as a result of our inability to be wealthy enough to raze them.</p>
<p>But there is nothing quite like Locust Walk. I should know, I just went traversing the Ivies and checked.</p>