<p>Here some others that have not been mentioned: Union, Trinity, Dickinson, St. John's (Annapolis)</p>
<p>Irvine over Stanford? Irvine looks and feels like a clean room; completely sterile. Its inconspicuous and uninspired by any collegiate look brand of architecture is hardly distinct from the business parks that surround it.</p>
<p>Stanford, now that's a campus. Add USC, UCLA, and Yale Old Campus.</p>
<p>I agree about UC Irvine...but I also felt that Stanford is a little sterile. It is a beautiful campus, but somehow, it lacks heart and personality.</p>
<p>I don't know, I guess my problem with UCI is that it lacks any cohesive architectural theme except some vague tribute to modernism... and it's not collegiate at all. </p>
<p>If I can fault Stanford for anything, it's being too perfect and too clean. I guess that implies sterility and a lack of personality. At least they let some of the grass die at Harvard.</p>
<p>"If I can fault Stanford for anything, it's being too perfect and too clean. I guess that implies sterility and a lack of personality." Incredible, but it's true, and not only for Stanford. This really happens, when something is too clean, it looks like dead, doesn't it?</p>
<p>How about some Badger love. The buildings may be good and not so good but the setting and miles of preserved lakefrontage are hard to beat. And you can walk to scores of restaurants, shops, performing arts venues, and of course the bars.</p>
<p>USC is in Compton, Cali, is that a joke?</p>
<p>And ignorance rears its ugly head once again.</p>
<p>No, USC is several miles away from Compton actually. If one was to get to Compton from USC, they would have to get on the I-10 freeway South, the I-105 freeway East, the I-710 South, and finally CA-91 West. Even if it was in Compton (which it is not)... would that be prohibitive of it having a beautiful campus? Penn is in notorious West Philadelphia and Yale is in New Haven. Are Penn and Yale automatically ugly?</p>
<p>USC's campus is beautiful - I even know UCLA students who will admit it's better than their own, and UCLA is gorgeous.</p>
<p>well, bias has reared "its ugly head once again." :)</p>
<p>i'm surprised nobody mentioned johns hopkins. it was THE most beautiful campus, although the way to the campus was less than normal.</p>
<p>johns hopkins is pretty... especially with the cobblestoned roads around it.
USC is in Watts/Compton/South Central area, but your right, that is by no means prohibitive of it having a nice campus. </p>
<p>i thought we started out early on saying that we werent going to argue about schools that everyone knows about.</p>
<p>USC is far from Compton, and at the border between downtown LA and South Central, I think.</p>
<p>TheCity, can we argue over things you think you know, but you really don't know:)</p>
<p>::There's a Uni in Mexico called ITAM, which was once a psychiatric institution, and it really resembles it::</p>
<p>LoL, my mom wanted me to go there. They are internationally ranked for business and intl. relations, i believe, but personally i hated the campus when i visited. everything is behind a wall and probably only takes up like two or three acres. kind of weird.</p>
<p>Okay, why has no one mentioned Penn? Its campus is BEAUTIFUL, anyone who knows ANYTHING about architecture would agree with me. And it gets points for location, too, despite what some of you might say.</p>
<p>lilybloom: so you know ITAM!!!!!!!! What a surprise!!!! I thought nobody knew about Mexican universities. LOL. You're right, man, it's supposed to be top ranked in business, it's the only god damn place in Mexico in which they ask for the SAT. It is indeed a horrible place, but well, for Mexican standards, the education there is by far the most demanding. (most of their teachers are ivy or chicago graduates) A lot of friends of mine go there and they don't have a social life. Anyway, no matter how good it is, I'm sure it's nothing compared to US universities (obviously)
But how did you heard about it in France????!!!! (it's like a Mexican Wharton, LOOOOL)</p>
<p>I dont see why no one has really seriously mentioned Yale. Just look!</p>
<p>That said, Princeton is the most beautiful campus of any college in the United States.
Duke is nice, but it seems just a tad formulaic.
Stanford has a serious Stepford vibe. It is waaaaayyy too perfect and contrived, and comes off, as one poster put it earlier, "like a woman with too much makeup."</p>
<p>atu23, I've lived in Mexico since I was 11. I spent a year in France after high school and just got back last week. </p>
<p>I think there are quite a few good unis in Mexico besides ITAM, like Ibero, Tec (especially the Monterrey campus) and UNAM, even if its reputation has gone slightly downhill in recent years.</p>
<p>yes, i studied at Ibero, and all of those you mentioned are good for undergraduates, but I think academic life there has nothing to do with that of the States, not even UNAM, which really does a lot of research</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree, which is why I decided to go back to the US for college. I want the 'college experience' and the flexibility that a liberal arts education in the US offers. Undergrad is SO focused in Mexico, and I'm just not ready to say, 'I want to be a doctor' or 'I want to be an architect,' you know?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I see you're in Mexico City! So am I, for the moment. What part are you in?</p>
<p>Wellesley is beautiful. I also loved Dartmouth's campus.</p>