<p>Princeton’s is the nicest, but I really don’t know why everyone is so negative toward Penn’s campus. I think it’s pretty nice.</p>
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<li>Yale - Breathtaking beauty and each building is unique in its own way. The close proximity of each building within the campus sometimes makes you forget that you’re in a city.</li>
<li>Princeton - Stunning architecture, but somewhat of a claustrophobic vibe</li>
<li>Cornell - Amazing vista, if at an isolated location. Architecture just shy of Yale’s Gothic splendor</li>
<li>Columbia - It’s like living in a snow globe: an oasis in the city</li>
<li>Penn - In contrast to Columbia, Penn’s “ugliness” is masked by the city. It works.</li>
<li>Harvard - There’s nothing that stifles the soul like being surrounded by dark red, unremarkable buildings. There is also a sense of disunity caused by the spread out nature of the campus and the fact that the city runs right through it.</li>
<li>Brown - The same drabness as Harvard, but with a worse color (brown?).</li>
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<p>Not rated: Dartmouth</p>
<p>i’m not 100% sure how to explain, it was just my general impression… i didn’t like the way that penn was integrated into the city around it, and it’s not the nicest or most attractive part of philly. i felt like the campus was kind of overwhelming and disjointed; i didn’t think there was much of a community feel to it. (i’m sure it’s much different when you’re living there, this was just my opinion!) and besides the quad, which was gorgeous, i didn’t like the architecture and thought the buildings were just ugly basically. i was just more impressed with how columbia was a campus within a city than how penn was, i think. hope that answers your question a bit :]</p>