<p>Um, doubt at a research university that you'll be garunteed a single freshmen year. Not sure how to channel Hogwarts-esq but I'm guessing you mean gothic-like. Problem is, most schools with this architecture style are prestigious, and none are easy to get into, BC is a reach, the other three are dreams for most:</p>
<p>University of Cambridge - You will have a lot more luck looking at schools in the UK, there are mutiple</a> schools within the University of Cambridge that may appeal to you, mainly Girton, Gonville & Caius, and Kings.</p>
<p>Princeton</a> University- Princeton's residential campuses may appeal to you, who wouldn't they appeal to :p And a degree from Princeton doesn't look to shabby either, if you can get in. Here's</a> some more picture.</p>
<p>very hogwartsy (as close as you can get since the film was shot there), liberal, everyone has their own room (oxford students dont share) and great connections...</p>
<p>If you want to eat in the great hall (as seen in the movies) but stay in the US, Cornell is good. It matches all the other criteria as well. West</a> Campus Risley</a> Hall interior whose dining hall was modeled after Christ Church in England which is where Harry Potter's great hall was filmed. Risley</a> Hall exterior</p>
<p>Great economics and business programs, nice "Hogwartsy" campus (in terms both of academics and appearance), and several (extremely nice!) dorms with singles.</p>
<p>You don't know what you are talking about. Have you ever been there? The social scene does not get much more liberal than that. The core curriculum is not as liberal as say....Brown, but it is far from being ubiquitously conservative.</p>
<p>A large chunk of Duke is from the northeast. Specifically, Duke is composed with copious amounts of people from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, etc. So, it is an eclectic group. I would say Duke is straight down the middle in terms of numbers of conservative and liberal students.</p>
<p>I guess you could say it is moderate but that still makes my remark correct...also, I had a gay friend that went to Duke and is now transferring to Stanford because he was absolutely miserable living with "a bunch of stuck-up close-minded white kids."</p>
<p>Haha I guess "moderate" would have been more discrete. When I was there, I thought it was VERY liberal. However, I'm from the South, so that isn't saying much. :)</p>
<p>Duke has a paticularly southern population. Duke is required to accept 13% of its' class from the state on top of a very strong southern regional appeal</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that it is P-A-R-T-I-C-U-L-A-R-L-Y Southern, because New York is one of the THE most represented states in the student poplulation. However, I agree that there is a southern appeal. Why wouldn't there be? Stanford takes around 35%-45% of Californians. So, in the scheme of things, I would propound that Duke has a very prominent Northeastern influence.</p>
<p>LOL I think it is probably an effort to engender a lucid environment between the school and the community. It wouldn't look right for Duke to not accept a significant amount of "their own."</p>
<p>Duke's top states are NY, California, Florida, and NC, but it is definetley a liberal campus (though the conservatives like to make themselves known)</p>
<p>I would say Oxford is very Hogwartsy, and its in England! like the real one! (errr...well, its not really real is it...one can wish)</p>