<p>Which school has the most beautiful campus along with good academics?</p>
<p>......exeter</p>
<p>Most of the New England campuses are really gorgeous and have good academics.
I think Exeter has a really nice campus, but it's smaller/less foresty than others.
Hotchkiss has a relatively small number of buildings, but it's got a lot of landscaping and is surrounded by beautiful mountains and has spectacular leaf change in the fall.
Andover's big and grassy, but not as heavy on the trees.
I think you'd really have to go and decide for yourself. It's subjective.</p>
<p>Loomis
middlesex
St. Geaorge's all have pretty campuses</p>
<p>Emma Willard</p>
<p>From what I remember ...
Campus scene:
Berkshire, Blair, Hotchkiss, Deerfield and Middlesex.
Academics:
Andover, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, and Middlesex.</p>
<p>Exeter's campus is a lot "warmer" than Andovers. Meaning red brick buildings, lots of foliage etc. I thought the town of Exeter was soo cute too. </p>
<p>Choate had a nice campus also... awful dorms though.</p>
<p>Exeter, Andover, and St.Pauls are the top academically, I guess. Or at least thought to be the best.</p>
<p>emma willard and st georges have gorgeous campus (emma willards castle archecture was used as the set of the emperor's club and St. georges over looks newport beach). loomis also has a very nice campus especially for the middle of ct. I agree about choate's dorms though. The choate dorm I saw on tour (which was said to be a "bigger" room) was the size of my double at miss porter's and it had 4 people in it).</p>
<p>Taft's campus is entirely (even the gym) in the collegiate gothic style. I fell in love with the campus when I visited. More importantly, academics are very strong, and it's a friendly environment.</p>
<p>I think that what a school looks like isn't what you should be looking for. I was thinking this too, when I saw pictures of different schools on different websites I was in awe. But then my principal told me that I should'nt be blinded by what the school looked like. But your question is legit and does have merit, I would like a school that does look decent, just one word of advice. Don't be blinded by the beauty because the school is trying to sell itself too, just like everyone else is when they come in for the interviews.</p>
<p>If you concur that academically there is nothing to choose between say Exeter, St. Paul's, Groton and Middlesex, the campus architecture reflects the spiritual 'sitz im leben' : those things that are valued because they are true good and beautiful. Admittedly this imports into an American situation an Oxford standard of what education is really about--it is somthing you derive from the spiritual interaction of the setting, the faculty, the fellow students. It is definitely not a gas station idea of schooling. By those standards I personally find St. Paul's one of the most astonishingly beautiful expressions of the Oxford ideal in America. The Henry Vaughan chapel-- a jewel of american neo-gothic mirrored by the new library (perhaps the most beautiful library in America) both against the setting of ponds and woods express what St. Paul's is really about. To me anyway, the ground feels warmer there than at Groton--also with a magnificent Vaughan chapel or Middlesex who to someone with a more ordered mind than mine are splendidly beautiful as well. Exeter perhaps for reasons of scale, I never felt spiritually attracted to.
Deerfield is supposedly very beautiful as well as is St. George's. Such riches! Go visit! If the place "feels" right it probably is right.</p>
<p>I agree paleozoic, St. Paul's is extremely beautiful.</p>
<p>It's my opinion that Exeter does not have a beautiful campus, not even close. To tell the truth, while it's a great school, the campus is a little depressing</p>
<p>The most beautiful campuses I've seen, in order,(I've been to many prep schools) are St Georges'(gorgeous centralized campus right by the water), Deerfield's(sprawling fields of grass, views of the hillls, and classical buildings), and Hotchkiss's(like deerfield, but a little less awe-inspiring). Everyone should see these schools sometime in the fall or spring. Their campuses eclipse the campus of any college i have ever visited or seen, and they're very much better upkept.</p>
<p>I visited a number of bs with my son last fall. They were all amazingly beautiful. I think you will have to find your personal aesthetic. Be sure to visit when school is in session so you can get a feeling for the school beyond the campus. The only school that we did not find as attractive as the others was Peddie. It certainly has its pluses, but it just wasn't that attractive to us.</p>
<p>Paleo, I whole heartedly agree with your SPS comments. </p>
<p>Burb Parent, of all the campuses I have visited, I too agree with you regarding Peddie. Peddie's look' are not comennsurate with their academics.</p>
<p>Since the topic comes up regularly and also applies to colleges, perhaps the original poster should look up Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder and leading apostle of american landscape architecture. Around 1890 at the height of the gilded age and every american school/college sought to achieve some balance between spirituality and crass materialism, he designed or redesigned practically every campus in America. Among the schools he redesigned were Groton and Middlesex with their obviously formal central circle motif. </p>
<p>Olmsted also designed Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, University of Chicago, Yale, Williams, Cornell and a range of other of the most beautiful campuses in America. Olmsted made a plan for St. Paul's that only over the years was gradually implemented and which resulted in the English/New England village motif that with the juxtaposition of the neo-gothic chapel/romantic industrial powerplant I find a peculiarly American expression of Henry Adam's "Virgin and the Dynamo".</p>
<p>"the circle" at lawrenceville was designed by olmsted</p>
<p>Peddie's campus is very unimpressive. The chapel was always the focal point of the campus. The new "colannade" they tacked on the front is out of scale and looks fake.</p>
<p>i looked at many new england schools and im not being biast toward my school
but i think that loomis has a very warm and beautiful campus
the quad was designed after uva
aka thomas jefferson</p>
<p>Andover has the most beautiful falls and springs. In the autumn, all the trees on campus are covered in hues of brown, red, gold, and green. The buildings are mostly brick and the two accentuate one another. There is always a slight- but not uncomfortable- breeze that blows through the campus, adding to the New England feel of the place.</p>
<p>Probably the most beautiful time is in the spring though, when the cherry blossom trees bloom. For a few weeks, these giant pillars of pink dot the campus, I've always found them enchanting. It's hard to tear your eyes away.</p>