<p>Although I’ve never visited the Ivy campuses, my aunt has and said that Princeton is the prettiest (if you include non-Ivies, she says that Duke is prettier). Yale did a better job of highlighting its architecture when you compare its viewbook with P, but I have to admit that the lawns and pathways at P are to die for. There’s a certain liberating airiness in that campus, even if you are just looking through a viewbook.</p>
<p>I’ve only visited Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, with a brief and informal stop at Yale.</p>
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<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale
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<li>Harvard
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<li>Columbia</li>
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<p>Yale is also somewhat peculiar to judge, as the Graduate school area looks tremendously different than the Old Campus area.</p>
<p>At first when someone said “Yale is integrated into the city” I was confused as to what Yale they saw. But its a pretty big overall campus, and has some fantastically beautiful parts along with some urban parts, and I think the part you see first makes the most difference about how you think of Yale.</p>
<p>What struck me about Princeton is that it was large as well, but thoroughly beautiful everywhere you went. Columbia was nice too, its just that its more nice on the outside, and then when you actually enter the buildings, its not so nice.</p>
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Then explain why a thread in which poster’s provide their opinions of campus aesthetics is “ridiculous”.</p>
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<li>Yale, the buildings, libraries, dining halls are DAZZLING!</li>
<li>Princeton, also stunning; didn’t like the town</li>
<li>Cornell, amazingly beautiful, a little too sprawling</li>
<li>Harvard (nice, but should be nicer?)</li>
<li>Dartmouth, charming but too in the stix</li>
<li>Brown, pretty nice colonial georgian feel</li>
<li>Columbia, sui generis, doesn’t work for me</li>
<li>Penn - frugly; hardly feels like an ivy school (nicer than Drexel, though!)</li>
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<p>Hmm…ok well I kinda see your point about Penn’s buildings not being as “Ivy-esk,” but internally, its buildings are pritty nice. I mean Huntsman Hall, Fisher Fine Arts, and Van Pelt are all extremely nice buildings internally. Honestly, alot of the buildings at these other schools look outstanding from the outside but were not as fancy on the inside.</p>
<p>dharm, so how did you like New Haven?</p>
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<p>As someone who’s visited all 8 ivy’s, I think I can put together a reasonable list. Of course, it will be to my personal preferences…</p>
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<li>Princeton, stunning architecture, beautiful landscaping, overall just great</li>
<li>Columbia, it’s in the middle of New York, but has it’s own defined campus with greens lawns, trees, and great architecture</li>
<li>Cornell, the beauty of it’s surroundings is amazing</li>
<li>Brown, love the architecture, love Providence</li>
<li>Yale, love the architecture, didn’t love New Haven that much</li>
<li>Dartmouth, pretty, but a little to rural for my tastes</li>
<li>Penn, campus was just mediocre</li>
<li>Harvard, not ugly, but I just left with a feeling like “This is it?”. I suppose my expectations were just too high for the “best” college in the world.</li>
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<p>JohnAdams, New Haven is a really nice place. I wouldnt walk through the park at night (I did that… dumb idea), but the city as a whole is fairly vibrant and I definitely felt safe walking around… I even got myself completely lost and lived to tell the tale!</p>
<p>You know, it really is possible to prefer New Haven to Princeton. I’m not saying that would be a universal preference, or even a majority one, but it’s not unusual, either.</p>
<p>My kids spent most of their childhoods living in a community that resembles Princeton a lot, except they always went to school in less privileged neighborhoods, and spent a lot of time in the downtown area of the city and also in out-of-the-way working-class ethnic neighborhoods. Both New Haven and Princeton feel perfectly familiar to them. And they both pretty much had the won’t-get-out-of-the-car reaction at Princeton. They will probably want to live someplace like that when they are 40, but for now they really aren’t interested. (Note that their PARENTS are perfectly happy living someplace like that. Which is the problem.) New Haven was just another pretty vibrant, interesting low- to middle-income collection of ethnic urban neighborhoods. Not fabulously exciting, but not daunting, either, and not boring.</p>
<p>thatguy, it is good to know that a place that you were concerned for your life when lost, or never would walk through its park at night, you would consider a “pretty nice place”.</p>
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<p>Wow, sarcasm. I forgot we have comedians. </p>
<p>And, if you read the quote you so nicely quoted back to me, I said I was lost and lived to tell the tale… did I say I feared for my life? Dont think so. </p>
<p>As well, would you walk through any major park at night? I mean, come on, its not just New Haven. Dont be so naive as to think that because you dont like New Haven that its just that park that is unsafe at night.</p>
<p>In terms of beauty? </p>
<p>Princeton
Penn/Dartmouth
Yale
Harvard
Brown
Cornell</p>
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<p>I think it is evident that it is my **opinion ** that it is ridiculous (without quotations). Thus I don’t have to explain anything. I also won’t bother giving explanations to someone who confused a plural with a possessive.</p>
<p>Rudess, then why even read the thread or make comment as such?</p>
<p>take some time and read a good book instead</p>
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<p>JohnAdams12, I couldn’t have discovered the thread’s content unless I had read it. </p>
<p>Thanks for your extremely valuable life advice, though. Take some time to advise other people in here.</p>
<p>so Rudess, do you really think that the thread’s content is much different than the title suggests?</p>
<p>what did you expect other than has been written already?</p>
<p>oops, wait a minute, you are unhappy because of the opinion of people about Penn’s campus. Is that it?</p>
<p>so JohnAdams12, do you really think that a thread’s title is sufficient to obtain the content of a thread?</p>
<p>Why do you read threads?</p>
<p>Is it because you like to talk nonsense?</p>
<p>Oops, wait a minute, you are a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>So Rudess, you read the thread</p>
<p>the thread included EXACTLY what the title stated would be included</p>
<p>yet you stated that</p>
<p>* "This is one of the most ridiculous threads I’ve seen in the history of College Confidential. There is no way Penn is last in this list, and it probably is in the top tier. "*</p>
<p>so it appears that the only reason that you stated that this thread is ridiculous is because Penn’s campus is considered among the worse in the the Ivies…that is it, no more no less.</p>
<p>do you know how ridiculous and childish this sounds?</p>
<p>what is it, you don’t want to hear how bad your campus is compared to the other Ivies?</p>
<p>take a look at other threads that discuss the beautiful campuses around the country - many include the Ivies, but virtually NONE include Penn</p>
<p>Shouldn’t this tell you something?</p>
<p>Penn is a good school, but face it - the campus itself it among the worse in the Ivies…</p>