<p>Searching for beautiful schools anyone? Here's the 2012 Newsweek College Rankings of the "Most Beautiful Schools".
College</a> Rankings 2012: Most Beautiful Schools (Photos) - Newsweek and The Daily Beast</p>
<p>I find it funny how Occidental is on the list but Pomona and Stanford aren’t.</p>
<p>Seriously, I visited 10 campuses (Yale, Vassar, Duke, Rice, Amherst, Columbia, Bowdoin, Williams, Swarthmore, University of Chicago) and Pomona was among one of the most beautiful (though Scripps is even more beautiful, I’ll give them that). The lush green grass, all sorts of trees, snowcapped mountains in the distance, rooftop gardens, citrus bushes, terracotta roofs, white Spanish architecture infused with a modern vibe, fountains, murals…</p>
<p>U’Chicago, Vassar, and Yale are also exceptionally beautiful. They deserve to be in this list…but wait, one of the categories is male and female attractiveness -.-</p>
<p>This looks totally objective and not at all bs…
Any ranking system that lists Cal Poly SLO as one of the least rigorous schools in America probably isn’t a very good ranking system.</p>
<p>^I think rigor would depend on your major. Cal-Poly has incredible engineering programs that are probably rigorous like most other programs, but the rest of the school is probably just as rigorous as any other CSU, which to say is not very rigorous.</p>
<p>The ranking should have a different name because it also includes attractiveness of the student body. And Pomona, Stanford, and many others should be on this list. Yale, Harvard, Amherst, Swarthmore (so beautiful!), Vassar, UWashington are all worthy but I guess the student-body attractiveness and bad weather caused them to not be ranked.</p>
<p>Conn College…</p>
<p>Newsweeks rankings of anything are moronic.</p>
<p>Abilene Christian and West Texas A&M? They must be kidding!</p>
<p>They are counting the rather attractive students. The attractive females are the reason for Texas A&M over a school like Stanford. It is a silly ranking.</p>
<p>^^ Yeah, I guess if you are looking at the students you can just ignore the buildings and lack of green.</p>