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<p>Chico is ranked pretty high according to US News...here it is just in case you need to see it...</p>
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According to US News top public universities (Master's, West region):
1. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
3. CSU Chico, CSU Long Beach
5. Cal Poly Pomona
6. Sonoma State
8. Humboldt State
9. CSU Fullerton
10. San Jose State
12. CSU Stanislaus
14. CSU Fresno
17. CSU Bakersfield, CSU Sacramento
<p>this thread is about campus beauty i believe...the ranking list you included is according to academics, for publics that only offer degrees up to to the masters level. but, chico state is very beautiful in my opinion.</p>
<p>Have visited many campuses on east and west coasts and would have to agree that Colgate is breathtaking, also loved Dartmouth, and Holy Cross is lovely. On the west coast, new architecture, but it would be hard to beat Pepperdine for it's picture perfect location, on a hill overlooking the Pacific.</p>
<p>pepperdine has a nice location but its architecture is pretty lame. try university of pacific or the claremont colleges out west. even UCSD and cal poly pomona are far more beautiful than pepperdine.</p>
<p>If you are looking for rankings on the nightlife or party scene at any college you can check out my buddies website. It might help....If your college isnt on here, im pretty sure you can add it.</p>
<p>Washington University in STL is very beautiful and very well kept.
Georgetown has pretty buildings but felt cramped to me.
UPenn was magnificent and an urban oasis in a busy city.
Boston College was BEAUTIFUL. Enough said.
USC was just okay...I guess I'm partial to palm trees though! haha.</p>
<p>Through my college hunt I've visited the following:
Michigan, Penn State, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Penn, and Rice. Out of all of them the clear winner of campus aesthetics is Johns Hopkins. The entire campus is green with uniformed georgian architecture (very at home feel). Carnegie Mellon comes close (center campus is pretty), but it lacks a lot of the vegitation seen at JHU. Rice campus is too boring (center parking lot is too big), Penn architecture is too jarring, and Penn State is too big and smushed together. Michigan's campus had a nice layout (esp north campus) and the diag was pretty nice...but it wasn't any bit pretty.</p>
<p>Err...when I was there they never mentioned that Baltimore was safe, in fact they cautioned us to look out for ourselves when we went into town.<br>
To answer jaimie's question, I was really impressed by JHU when I visited during admitted students day. At that time the campus was in bloom and drop dead gorgeous. People kept commenting on the campus aesthetics and it was really hard to walk through the middle of it all without stopping to admire the surrounding. The entire atmosphere had a nice at-home feel.
The dorms are on the nicer end of college housing. As a freshman you get to choose what kind of housing you want. Your choices include the AMR's (very much like your classic college dorms; very social), Buildings A&B (overall bigger and nicer, with AC; less social than AMR's), and Wolman Hall (suite style living). The choice is all up to your personal preference.
The people there all all really friendly, outgoing, and considerate. I'll be attending JHU in the fall, and I've already made many friends through AIM, CC, facebook, etc... They all seem super cool.
One of my few complaints about JHU is the surrounding town. The campus is located in a bad part of town (Charles village) so its always best to use caution when venturing out about. It's probably not the best idea to wander around alone in dark alleys at 2am. Apart from the surrounding town, the campus is like it's own seperate entity. Administration as also taken steps to up security. There are blue light poles scattered throughout the campus, where if you feel unsafe you can push the button and a security guard will be guarenteed to be there within 30 seconds. There's really no reason why you should feel unsafe on campus, just take a few precautions when venturing out, just like any other school located in a big city. JHU is no way worse than schools like Brown (Providence), Penn (Philly), Columbia (Harlem), Yale (New Haven), Northwestern (Evanston), or Duke (Durham).</p>
<p>Anyways, if you have anymore questions feel free to ask or just PM me. I also use AIM. : )</p>
<p>Thanks so much, thethoughtprocess and asdfTT123! My once concern about JHU has been Baltimore (I'm not exactly tough :) ), but I'm sure that it isn't as bad as its reputation and the security does sound pretty nice.</p>
<p>The movie, "The Last Kiss," is designed to showcase Madison, where Lakeshore Entertainment CEO and producer Tom Rosenberg and executive producer Andre Lamal attended school in the 1960s.</p>
<p>Most of it is filmed in Montreal, where Lamal says costs are about 30 percent lower because of incentives like "tax rebates and other subsidies."</p>
<p>Media entering "the set" are given two rules. One, don't look at the cameras. Two, do not approach the actors.</p>
<p>But Lamal and Rosenberg are happy to relive their Madison memories. Lamal points out that you may have seen Rosenberg last year receiving an Oscar for "Million Dollar Baby."</p>
<p>"I'd like to come back here all the time," says Rosenberg. "We knew exactly what we wanted, a university town that wasn't just a university." Adds Lamal: "And it's such a beautiful campus ... you get such great production value here - it's a refuge."</p>