The West Point chapel is pretty compelling but nothing is more beautiful than the lights of the Michigan law library shining on the evening snow (or anytime):
URichmond and Furman are a tie for 1st in our house-for most beautiful campus and friendliest students; Vanderbilt and Wake Forest are a tie for 2nd (Vandy may take it once the new Residential college construction ends in 2023 and we are a little biased since D18 will be there in August); UVA for best Historic campus and best College town just barely beating out College of Wm & Mary for 2 reasons 1) the absolutely a-mazing downtown area and 2) less tour buses … however sitting at the sunken garden at Wm & Mary early morning with a wonderful latte just before first classes when no one is there yet is an experience… you can breathe in the history, it seeps into your bones and you just know important people and ideas were presented right where you are sitting… (I might need to back of the Hamilton soundtrack a little)
^ Haven’t been to Furman but the rest of it is so spot on for me. That Sunken Garden is amazing, S chose Wake and it was a good choice (the right choice for him).
Yes, it is.
@rickle1 do love Wake Forest (we’ve talked about that on another thread!). Disappointed D18 was wait-listed but c’est la vie … S23 will look at them in a few years and maybe he’ll have the right resume to get in out right! The Forest is a fabulous place! Furman was the first stop on our Collegepalooza tour of 10 schools in 6 days and from that point every school had to rise up to those standards! We had to family friends give us the ‘backdoor’ tour from their student point-of-view and the inside of the buildings are just as impressive as the outside.
^ That’s alot of schools in 10 days. Completely get the “rise up to those standards” point. For my S that was BC. Partly because he wanted to be close to Boston (we visit often) and mostly because he just loved the place. Went to lots of great schools after (W&M, UVA, Lehigh, Richmond, UNC, Villanova, etc.) Got to Wake and I could tell he was very interested right away. It moved to a tie with BC which is saying something for him.
@rickle1 It wasn’t that hard really; went for Spring Break her Jr year. Lots of driving but it was easy to see two colleges a day if you plan right - Wake/Elon, Duke/UNC-Chapel, W&L/UVA, Richmond/Wm&Mary… we saw Furman on a Sunday at the beginning (because we didn’t have the ‘official’ tour we had friends to show us around) and then Georgetown on the Friday before heading home (should have done GWU while we were there but didn’t). We also did a drive through of Davidson on the way from Furman to Wake, but I don’t count it since we didn’t even get out of the car. We had seen Vandy a few times visiting family in Fraklin and went to look at Rice with a friend whose gparents live in Houston. Our only regrets were not visiting WashU and Rhodes, but we just couldn’t find time to get there and D18 felt really good about the schools she had seen so… but it was a fun trip for us as M/D to just be together on the road without younger siblings as distractions.
University of Richmond
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA.
Colorado.
Wellesley??? I felt like I was in a creepy remake of The Cabin in the Woods.
I loved Rollins College from the moment our family visited and felt a pang of sadness upon graduation. Such beauty during the day and night. Found this video which shows a lot of scenes of campus.
Notre Dame…beautiful and a lot of soul.
University of Washington, when the cherry trees are in blossom on the Quad.
Notre Dame—Peaceful, soulful and spirited feel
Vanderbilt—An arboretum campus—in a city
Cornell—Naturally gorges
Holy Cross-Quintessentially New England
College of the Holy Cross - beautiful old buildings and a registered arboretum
Vassar College
UVA
VA TECH
DARTMOUTH
PRINCETON
LEHIGH
UVA
WILLIAM AND MARY
UVA
UVA
Thoreau, after climbing Mount Greylock, which looms over Williams:
"It would be no small advantage if every college were thus located at the base of a mountain.”
Who am I to disagree?