<p>United States Air Force Academy... Awesome campus.</p>
<p>These are classic colleges IMHO</p>
<ol>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Swat</li>
<li>Wellesley</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Haverford</li>
</ol>
<p>Of the Academies, I thought Navy was the most beautiful...(Annapolis is great). But Air Force is the most scenic and Colorado Springs ain't too shabby neither! LOL</p>
<p>Here's the Verdict according to CC</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Dartmouth (18)</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford (15)</p></li>
<li><p>Swarthmore (10)</p></li>
<li><p>Virginia (8)</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell (7)</p></li>
<li><p>Duke (7) tied</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown (7) tied</p></li>
<li><p>Princeton (7) tied</p></li>
<li><p>Washington (7) tied</p></li>
<li><p>Wellesley (6)</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA (6)</p></li>
<li><p>Brown (5)</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard (5)</p></li>
<li><p>Santa Clara (5)</p></li>
<li><p>Colgate (4)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>And here it is according to Princeton Review:
1 Wagner College<br>
2 St. Mary's College of Maryland<br>
3 Williams College<br>
4 The University of the South<br>
5 Sweet Briar College<br>
6 Pepperdine University<br>
7 Mount Holyoke College<br>
8 Swarthmore College<br>
9 University of Richmond<br>
10 University of California-Santa Cruz<br>
11 Wellesley College<br>
12 Scripps College<br>
13 Kenyon College<br>
14 Rollins College<br>
15 Washington and Lee University<br>
16 Furman University<br>
17 College of the Atlantic<br>
18 Elon University<br>
19 University of Mary Washington<br>
20 Wells College</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton </li>
<li>Duke </li>
<li>Brown</li>
</ol>
<p>Oh, one college I forgot to mention that is definitely more beautiful than all others posted here ( i forgot to mention it because I never considered applying) is St. John's in Santa Fe. My brother who goes to northwestern saw it with me and said "This is the most beautiful college I've ever seen."
I saw it on a road trip from San Antonio to San Francisco.
I also saw Texas Tech on the same trip, that is definitely the ugliest college ever, in the ugliest town ever.</p>
<p>1 - Stanford
2 - Princeton
3 - Villanova
4 - USC
5 - Notre Dame
6 - University of Chicago
7 - UCLA
8 - Harvard
9 - Dartmouth
10 - Santa Clara</p>
<p>Expect to visit Duke, UVa, Georgetown, MIT, UNC, William & Mary and Williams at some point.</p>
<p>Trouble is, they are all nice in their own way.</p>
<p>Wow (again) so interesting - everybody (don't overload the server) look at St. Mary's of Maryland on their website, it is beautiful in a way none of the others are.
Mini, I've got to go to Scripps one day. UCSB is in a gorgeous setting, although the buildings didn't seem all that great. Anything in Santa Fe has to be great.
Williams - I don't know if it is second - beautiful views, beautiful individual buildings, sort of a conglomeration as a group. I must be pushover for uniformity of architecture, that's what I liked about Rhodes, you ought to see that library they are building!</p>
<p>Scripps is the opposite of Williams. VERY compact. All one style (Spanish Meditteranean), everything built around courtyards. Different mountains....</p>
<p>"I also saw Texas Tech on the same trip, that is definitely the ugliest college ever, in the ugliest town ever."</p>
<p>Yeah, but it has Bobby Knight! :)</p>
<p>Duke, Stanford, UNC, Notre Dame,Williams,Holy Cross.</p>
<p>I think princeton review is the most accurate, everyone on CC is looking at these more prestigious schools, that list that they put out must be the true list of actual beauty, weather and architecture.</p>
<p>Cambridge U. and its various colleges are BY FAR the most beautiful campuses I've ever seen. Seriously, Cambridge makes the nicest looking American campuses look like ugly step-childs.</p>
<p>Swarthmore
Dartmouth
Princeton
Haverford
Duke</p>
<p>I am shocked more people have not mentioned Penn State. There are 40,000 students on campus and NOT ONE piece of litter lying on the ground anywhere, lol. Of the schools I actually visited my list is:</p>
<ol>
<li>Penn State - University Park</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>UConn (extremely underrated)</li>
</ol>
<p>CalTech is beautiful. Good neighborhood around it too.</p>
<p>stanford's campus is way too much for me. It's like a girl with too much make up. It's too "great" for me, if you know what I mean. Too manicured is a good way of putting it, whoever said that. it's nice...too nice to like. </p>
<p>princeton was nice.</p>
<p>columbia...love it. one of the greatest cities in the world, but a sort of park-like campus right in the middle.</p>
<p>uchicago: lived there for 15 years. it's not that great, but hyde park and chicago in general is nice.</p>
<p>northwestern: live near there now, evanston is a GREAT college town. Don;t know too much about the acutal campus, but from what I've seen, I don't like particularly much. It's busy, like Harvard. </p>
<p>Harvard: hate it...it's always busy and full of traffic and loud...ugh. </p>
<p>Berkeley: pretty chill. Some really ugly ones though...</p>
<p>Northwestern busy? Noo... for the size of its student body, it has a tremendous amout of space, and when I visited, it had a wonderful chill feel to it. It definitely has some ugly buildings. Also, the great thing about NU is that if you do get too stressed theres always the beach, right on campus, for you to be alone.</p>
<p>out of the ones that i've seen:
1. Cornell-I've always loved it. Amazing buildings, lots of grassy quads, waterfalls, hills, lakes, gorges, etc. Gothic buildings, stone buildings, modern buildings, etc., yet they all meld together and seem to have a consistency that many other schools don't have. You can lose yourself in this school. Everything a college campus should have.
2. Yale-loved the gothic architecture everywhere. Good amount of grass, and the "water table" in front of the library is nice. Gives you that "England" feel.
3. Penn-not too big, not too small. Mixed styles of buildings, but you tend to get used to it after a while. The Quad is AMAZING. Perelman Quad/Wynn Commons also is unique. It's like an amphitheater with four gothic style buildings, and a huge Penn seal(or whatever you call it). Good amount of grass, lots of statues, the LOVE statue that's unique to Philly, and I liked how they had various signs around campus describing certain historic places. Best urban campus I'd say. Locust Walk is great too, especially during december when they light the trees around it(that's when I visited my friend).
4. Georgetown-my school, GREAT campus. It's a little small, but not so small that you can walk from the furthest points in less than 5 mins. Pretty much enclosed inside Healy Gates, though many buildings are outside the gates. White Gravenor, Copley and Healy are masterpieces. Not a lot of grass, but it makes it beautiful at the front. A few statues around campus. Hilly campus as well. 2-3 small ponds with small fountains, really nice. A huge fountain near the center in Dahlgren Quad. The insides of buildings are pretty nice, especially Healy with the chandeliers, paintings, wood, etc. Flowers, trees, etc. Really nice in the spring and summer.
5. Harvard-ok campus. Lots of gates around the school, "old" feeling. Not that much to say
6. Brown-thought it was nice, but not great. For some reason it didn't really give off that "alive" feeling that I get at Georgetown/Penn/Cornell. Grassy areas, statues in certain parts, various gates, etc. I really like Providence as well. Nice little city.</p>