<p>Which Ivy league school has the prettiest and best campus?</p>
<p>Princeton, IMO</p>
<p>Are you picking a school based on that? I thought Yale was beautiful.</p>
<p>Cornell looks pretty nice...</p>
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<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
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<p>The Cornell campus is a paradise for landscape photography.</p>
<p>Cornell has the most beautiful landscaping and setting, Yale has the most beautiful architecture. Princeton is also gorgeous.</p>
<p>Harvard Ftw!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Princeton/Yale, then Harvard, then Dartmouth/Brown</p>
<p>Columbia and Penn are too gritty, and Cornell is too rainy and utilitarian.</p>
<p>Princeton is gorgeous, but dull. And that works better with selecting butt buddies than colleges...</p>
<p>PRINCETON! yale and harvard are both nice too though. can't comment on the others...</p>
<p>Do you like lots of open green space, or interesting urban architecture? I like Princeton's campus for greenery, and the very different campus of Columbia for its urban setting. (I haven't seen the campuses of Dartmouth, Brown, or Cornell.)</p>
<p>thanks tokenadult for moving my thread back out. You are now one of my top 5 posters....congrats.</p>
<p>go to the South if you're looking for things pretty</p>
<p>Yale's campus is nasty – New Haven is just grungy.</p>
<p>I've spent time at both Columbia and Brown, and both are absolutely beautiful. Harvard's is ok, but the bustle of Cambridge just isn't for me. Honestly, I think that Columbia's campus is much nicer than Harvard's. The action in Cambridge seems so artificial, as if it was transplanted there FOR the college, whereas the action in Morningside Heights envelops Columbia – the university is a natural participant in it, if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>Harvard or Cornell.</p>
<p>I say they are about equal. But i like Harvard's dorms better (virtual tour).</p>
<p>princeton. then yale, brown, dartmouth, cornell, harvard, penn, columbia</p>
<p>My opinion on Ivy Architecture:</p>
<p>New Haven may be grungy, but Yale definitely wins in the architecture front and with interior design. Have you seen the Trumbull College Lounge and Branford College?</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton pull in together, Harvard with Annenberg/Memorial Hall, and Princeton with Alexander Hall/Holder Hall/Nassau Hall. Penn comes in close behind them. </p>
<p>The rest are either nice and don't particularly stand out with Colonial Revival (Dartmouth, Brown), or are just straight neoclassical/modernist/utilitarian (Columbia, Cornell).</p>
<p>Yale's campus is nasty. I hated it...</p>
<p>Princeton's on the other hand... I loved it when I first saw it</p>
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the action in Morningside Heights envelops Columbia – the university is a natural participant in it, if you know what I mean.
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<p>I'm sure the residents of Morningside Heights would get a kick out of that.</p>
<p>I'd say Columbia's neoclassical is breathtaking and simply gorgeous. McKim Mead & White's brilliant use of space makes those 36 acres seem bigger than Penn's 300 acres</p>
<p>That being said, I <3 Penn and everything east of 38th street is gorgeous. west of 38th street has some interesting futuristic stuff like Radian, Fresh Grocer, and the movie theater/Marathon Grill. But the high rises are probably collectively the biggest eyesore in the Ivy League</p>
<p>Ouch, very little love for Columbia. Can you say McKim, Mead, & White?? (Thanks, ilovebagels. ;)) Columbia's Morningside Heights campus is an architectural treasure. It all depends on what you like to look at, I guess. I did find all of the Ivy campuses beautiful in their own ways--I especially admired Princeton and Yale. However, at most of the Ivies, I was a little put off by the fact that their campuses were sort of sprawling architectural hodge-podges. It's not that I brought an aesthetic checklist with me on my tours, it's just that those campuses didn't totally click with me for that reason.</p>
<p>Columbia was a different story--I fell in love the moment I saw it. The master plan of McKim, Mead, & White (or what parts of it were carried out) is brilliantly unified and immediately "readable". It appealed to me in a way no other Ivy campus had. You could argue that the space is less beautiful because the city is right outside it, but then we're not talking about the campus itself anymore (whether or not you find New York City appealing is more of a lifestyle issue, I think). The beauty of the actual campus is absolutely comparable to those of the other Ivies.</p>
<p>(OK, so that's if you forgive some of the more thoughtless late-20th century additions...but you gotta hand it to those hot-blooded Columbians, even the architecture students protested ugly buildings back in the 60s:
Image:Picketers.jpg</a> - WikiCU...and every campus has some ugly buildings from the 60s anyway.)</p>
