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<p>In reply to the post that said UC Santa Cruz was the most beautiful he or she had visited:</p>

<p>Ha! I live in SC and it’s funny how we look at things. Even though it has all the gorgeous, tall redwoods and walking paths, I just never think of it as a “college campus” in the traditional way. More like a campground without the tents. :slight_smile: But, it does have a nice view of the ocean from City on the Hill, as it’s called. Maybe I need to take a drive up there again one of these days.</p>

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<p>University of Indiana-Bloomington has sure caught my daughter’s eye. I haven’t seen it personally, but the limestone buildings and grounds look nice.</p>

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<p>University of Virginia or William & Mary!!! Hands down :)</p>

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<p>i agree with the sentiment with the warm colors. every college looks nice when the leaves are falling, but true beauty is beautiful at any time.</p>

<p>i myself love gothic architecture - yale, notre dame. i also love fordham, ucsc (very old catholic spanish style) cornell, yada yada yada</p>

<p>remarkably ugly is university of hawaii - manoa. it’s freakin’ hawaii, couldn’t they have gotten a more beautiful campus?</p>

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<p>Kenyon College gets my vote</p>

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<p>i’m surprised nobody has mentioned pepperdine</p>

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<p>Wellesley, hands down. Master plan designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, who also designed Central Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace of parks, and the campuses of Stanford and University of Chicago.</p>

<p>From Wikipedia:
The college is renowned for the picturesque beauty of its 500 acre campus which includes Lake Waban, evergreen and deciduous woodlands and open meadows. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Boston’s preeminent landscape architect at the beginning of the 20th century, described Wellesley’s landscape as “not merely beautiful, but with a marked individual character not represented so far as I know on the ground of any other college in the country.” He also wrote: I must admit that the exceedingly intricate and complex topography and the peculiarly scattered arrangement of most of the buildings somewhat baffled me. The original master plan for Wellesley’s campus landscape was developed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Arthur Shurcliff, and Ralph Adams Cram in 1921. This landscape-based concept represented a break from the architecturally-defined courtyard and quadrangle campus arrangement that was typical of American campuses at the time. The 720-acre site’s glaciated topography, a series of meadows, and native plant communities shaped the original layout of the campus, resulting in a campus architecture that is integrated into its landscape.</p>

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<p>Rice deserves mention.</p>

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<p>SMU as well.</p>

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<p>what’s all this talk about college campuses when we all know which college campus is, by far, the most beautiful:</p>

<p>Princeton</p>

<p>the only debate should be for which campuses are second, third and fourth most beautiful…</p>

<p>so here we go:</p>

<p>Most Beautiful American College Campuses:</p>

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<li>Princeton
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<p>Forbes has the answer (sort of):
[Most</a> Beautiful Campuses](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/01/most-beautiful-campus-lifestyle-college_slide.html]Most”>In Pictures: The World's Most Beautiful College Campuses)
Picked by a panel of architects and designers, listed in alphabetical order:</p>

<p>Kenyon
(Oxford)
Princeton
Scripps
Stanford
Trinity
(Tsinghua)
US Air Force Academy
(University of Bologna)
UC Santa Cruz
University of Cincinatti
University of Virginia
Wellesley
Yale</p>

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<p>University of Iowa</p>

<p>Few pictures: [Thinking</a> about Iowa City? Here are some pics if anyone’s interested (Des Moines: best town, crime) - (IA) - City-Data Forum](<a href=“http://www.city-data.com/forum/iowa/229199-thinking-about-iowa-city-here-some.html]Thinking”>Thinking about Iowa City? Here are some pics if anyone's interested (Des Moines: best town, crime) - (IA) - City-Data Forum)</p>

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<p>@noimagination- I just screamed when you mentioned UBC! I remember visiting Vancouver and wished that I were a Canadian citizen just so I can attend there. <3</p>

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<p>I thought Princeton was the nicest campus of HYPS, but I have a good friend who has seen both Princeton and Pepperdine (and whose taste I trust) and thought Pepperdine was like heaven on earth.</p>

<p>But personally, Princeton was the best I saw.</p>

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<p>Stanford, Princeton, Duke.</p>

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<p>cornell, princeton, yale, colgate are my votes</p>

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<p>This Pepperdine?</p>

<p><a href=“http://amazingdata.com/mediadata41/Image/fun_cool_offbeat_weird_pepperdine_200907291753192480.jpg[/url]”>http://amazingdata.com/mediadata41/Image/fun_cool_offbeat_weird_pepperdine_200907291753192480.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Pepperdine does look gorgeous.</p>

<p>I’d say Rice, UNC Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest. Swarthmore was pretty too. Wake looked a little too perfect (but gorgeous nonetheless). Rice had a modern but classy feel to it. UNC Chapel Hill is like the idyllic campus… Simple buildings and lots of green stuff. I’m not into the whole gothic architecture thing so much…</p>

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<p>Virginia Tech. I’ve yet to see another that compares.</p>

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<p>Swarthmore, Middlebury, Connecticut College and Trinity all deserve a lot of consideration on this list.</p>