<p>Which do you think are the prettiest any why? </p>
<p>Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Harvard
Penn
Princeton
Yale</p>
<p>Pretty damn subjective, depending on one’s preferences in architecture…</p>
<p>Neo-gothic? Yale and Princeton
Georgian brick? Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown
Neo-classical? Columbia
Epic hodgepodge? Cornell and Penn</p>
<p>And then there’s the issue of how much one appreciates (or loathes) an urban setting, in which case it would be</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Cornell
Princeton
Brown
Yale
Harvard
Penn
Columbia</p>
<p>or…the exact opposite ;)</p>
<p>Princeton
Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Yale
Harvard
Penn (never seen, but I’m guessing it’s nicer than Columbia’s)
Columbia</p>
<p>Harvard and Brown are fairly similar in overall aesthetic, but Harvard has the Yard and the houses along the river, So I’d say Harvard is prettier than Brown.</p>
<p>I prefer Dartmouth’s looks to Princeton’s, which although obviously great looking in some respects leaves me cold. I don’t know why.</p>
<p>Yale has some really great pockets–such as the Branford College courtyards–that outdo all the rest.</p>
<p>Columbia and Cornell have too many monumental soulless buildings, and Cornell is also quite a mish mash with a lot of very homely buildings. (On the other hand, that mish mash represents some of its breadth as a university, but that’s not the topic.) Penn I haven’t seen in a long time, but it made no impression on me.</p>
<p>So for me they fall into 3 groups:</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Harvard, and Yale are the best looking.</p>
<p>Princeton and Brown are next.</p>
<p>Columbia, Cornell, and Penn are last.</p>
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<p>Perfectly nailed, without actually calling favorites! Salut!</p>
<p>Mmm, I haven’t seen the campus of every Ivy (for shame!), so I wouldn’t be able to rank them.</p>
<p>I have seen Columbia’s and Cornell’s, however.</p>
<p>Cornell was beautiful imho. </p>
<p>Columbia was blah. I consider my state school much more attractive. Columbia is cramped, small, not enough grass, some horrifying dorms (esp. for 50K a year!), not majestic enough at all. Then again, it’s a city campus, and all city campuses suffer from the high price of space in urbanville. As far as city campuses go, Columbia is indeed one of the most amazing. As far as campuses overall go…well, that’s another story. That’s not to say I wouldn’t prefer an uglier city campus to a more beautiful rural one…I would indeed prefer the former ;). As pretty as farmland is, it’s frickin’ boring.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I rule.</p>
<p>I also look forward to Penn’s transforming the urban wasteland that used to separate Penn and Center City with this baby: [PennConnects</a> : — Penn Park Images](<a href=“Penn Connects : A Vision for the Future.”>Penn Connects : A Vision for the Future.)</p>
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<p>I think construction is supposed to be done sometime late this year or early next</p>
<p>If I had to rank it would be:</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Princeton
Cornell
Harvard
UPenn
Yale
Brown
Columbia</p>
<p>I really don’t like Columbia’s campus.</p>
<p>GOOD</p>
<p>1) Princeton - Most epicly gothic campus in the states; unbeatable
2) Dartmouth - Amazingly pleasant campus; The Georgian brick with green shutters is amazing
3) Yale - Somewhat similar to Princeton, just with city streets running through it. The courtyards are top-notch though
4) Cornell - Big and spread out with plenty of green space but lacks a unified architectural model (and frankly the gorges creep me out)</p>
<p>AVERAGE (didn’t visit any of these)</p>
<p>5) Brown
6) Harvard
7) UPenn
8) Columbia</p>
<p>Absolutely it would be:</p>
<p>1) Yale or Brown tops (gorgeous, fanciful architecture; lovely historic neighborhood in the case of Brown; great courtyards and fanciful Gothic details and variety at Yale)</p>
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<p>2) Dartmouth or Cornell (wonderful interplay of nature and the built environment)
3) Princeton (the Gothic is rather bland, and the open spaces not as nicely landscaped or lush as they should be).
4) Harvard (too dense, similar, overbuilt – the problem with Georgian is a building built in 1970 looks the same as one built in 1798, resulting in a rather dull, oppressive campus)
5) Don’t know about Penn.
6) Ugliest by FAR would be Columbia and MIT (deadening neoclassicism)</p>
<p>Princeton
Cornell
Dartmouth
Yale
Harvard
Columbia
Penn
Brown</p>
<p>1) Columbia
2) UPenn
3) Brown
4) Yale
5) Harvard
6) Cornell
7) Dartmouth
8) Princeton</p>
<p>I loved the blockiness of Columbia’s campus. Everything just seemed so solid and imposing. Rural campuses/pretentious Neogothic DO NOT LIKE.</p>
<p>Princeton
Dartmouth
Cornell
Harvard
Brown
Yale
Columbia
Penn</p>
<p>Wow almost the direct opposite of plumdrum.</p>
<p>Ive only visited UPenn and HYP. However, from everything I’ve seen:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
</ol>
<p>Most of Cornell that I’ve seen is quite unattractive. I’m wondering what everyone else saw that I didn’t.</p>
<p>Not a lot of people here have visited UPenn and Columbia. I’m not a real city guy, but Columbias is pretty solidly nicer. Its a nicer neighborhood and a nicer overall campus.</p>
<p>I actually though it was fantastic looking, it was once you went inside the buildings that there were problems.</p>
<p>UPenn is like being in at Penn Station in NY - it really is not particularly cohesive and feels overrun with people. Columbia, by contrast, although being in NYC has a much more coherent feel to it. Neither has the aesthetics of Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, or Yale.</p>
<p>Princeton
Dartmouth
Cornell
UPenn
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Columbia</p>
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<p>I’ve kind of wondered that too, at times. It’s a hodgepodge, but there are some attractive quads, and a rugged beauty to the surrounding terrain which cannot be denied.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh snap, now I have to jump in with my own list.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton and Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
</ol>
<p>:)</p>