<p>Here's something to look at to "illustrate" what I'm talking about (Post #16)- for your viewing pleasure. (I asl posted this elsewhere).
<a href="http://www.perucsd.org/hsearthscience/images/LLCHPCMP.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.perucsd.org/hsearthscience/images/LLCHPCMP.jpg</a></p>
<p>PS- this view is loking East from back of the campus, West view is of some rolling hills and the Adirondacks. I imagine this may make some of you in High School decide to go to Community College before moving on to Harvard (just kidding)</p>
<p>That view is fine, but not quite so great for 8 months of the year when there is 12 feet of snow obscuring the camera.</p>
<p>I love Amherst dearly, but I don't think the campus is pretty.</p>
<p>posterX- much beauty is fleeting</p>
<p>Well, here's a list I compiled awhile back (and have continued to update based on the responses of posters) which is a list of the top 20 most beautiful colleges according to College Confidential posters. The amount of times the school has been mentioned as being the most beautiful by a poster (yes, there will be a bit of overlap so this isn't completely scientific, but it's close) is in parentheses following the name of the college.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University (119) NJ</li>
<li>Stanford University (112) CA</li>
<li>University of Virginia (89) VA</li>
<li>Yale University (87) CT</li>
<li>Cornell University (67) NY</li>
<li>Pepperdine University (60) CA</li>
<li>Duke University (57) NC</li>
<li>Dartmouth College (55) NH</li>
<li>Colgate University (47) NY</li>
<li>Middlebury College (42) VT</li>
<li>Williams College (40) MA </li>
<li>College of William & Mary (37) VA</li>
<li>University of California-Los Angeles (36) CA</li>
<li>Wellesley College (35) MA</li>
<li>Vassar College (32) NY</li>
<li>Wake Forest University (30) NC</li>
<li>University of Chicago (30) IL</li>
<li>Rice University (29) TX</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (28) NC</li>
<li>University of California-Santa Barbara (27) CA</li>
<li>Swarthmore College (27) PA</li>
</ol>
<p>Sewanee is much prettier than Princeton or Stanford, in my opinion. I was there today, and it is simply breath-taking. </p>
<p>I agree that there are beautiful LOCATIONS and beautiful campuses. Pepperdine isn't that great except for the location. </p>
<p>Colgate is a beautiful campus and wears the snow well.</p>
<p>It depends on what "beautiful" you're going for. Cambridge has a medieval feel to it; Chicago feels gothic; UCSC feels very natural; Pepperdine feels resort-ish...</p>
<p>Sewanee and Rhodes, hands down.</p>
<p>I like Washington and Lee - I'm a real sucker for the brick/collonade type buildings.</p>
<p>Who in this thread has seen Cornell University campus?...i bet not many!</p>
<p>I agree that Cambridge has a much prettier campus than Princeton but one thing that HYPS have over Oxbridge is much better facilities in terms of libraries, labs, classrooms, computer rooms.</p>
<p>Thats what I believe based on personal observations. The top labs are at schools like Berkley, Uchicago, HYPS.</p>
<p>Most people who come to Bennington site one of their reasons as the beauty of the campus. This is a very subjective topic though.</p>
<p>Pepperdine; hands down.</p>
<p>West Point is truly spectacular, especially in the fall. Sports Illustrated picked Michie Stadium as the best place in the country to watch a college football game.</p>
<p>Of all the Academies it is the most awe inspiring. </p>
<p>KP with its vew of Manhattan is #2 in my book ;)</p>