<p>Emory needs more votes. Once you visit their Claremont campus with practically a country club in the middle (clay, hard tennis courts, awesome pool, white marble) and the amazing apartments its hard to look at other colleges the same way.</p>
<p>has anybody visited oberlin? from their website, they dont appear to have such a great campus, but ive heard many good things as well. Im hoping to visit it after getting in (or, i should say, im hoping to get in), but would appreciate any comments or criticism about the campus, and the town that its in</p>
<p>I spent a summer there teaching tennis camp. I thought the campus was OKAY, but Ohio cornfields surrounding it personally didnt do it for me. The town is also kind of dead, in a poor midwestern city kind of way. I liked the east coast LACs with mountains, rivers, and beautiful new england towns much better. Or even Miami, Ohio (although I would never go there, way too conservative)Just my opinion though, others might like it.</p>
<p>Williams College is the most quaint and beautiful college I have ever visited, plus it has academics and athletics to make it simply the best in my opinion</p>
<p>Penn--ahh, what a great campus, and perched right in the middle of the city. In the middle of the campus you can look up at the Liberty towers in Center City. I have a soft spot for Philadelphia.</p>
<p>University of Delaware--for a school otherwise not very well known, recognized (maybe for good reasons), the campus is impeccable. New buildings stand alongside very old ones, everything looks absolutely maintained. </p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p>i don't have a college that i think is the most beautiful place ever, but i must say out of the colleges i've visited...</p>
<ul>
<li>yale: i love the gothic cathedral-esque library and all the little courtyards around the residential colleges. i also like the varied architecture between the old campus and new campus (as well as the dining hall that looks like the great hall in harry potter)</li>
<li>princeton: i love the whig-clio buildings and most of the architecture. however, butler college and some of the other dorms are butt-ugly, and i'm not a big fan of the frist center either. the chapel is gorgeous though as is the general campus (with all the tree-lined paths). nassau street is also very cute and integrates the city/university quite well.</li>
<li>williams: beautiful location in the mountains, lovely small-town feel, and very pleasant performing arts building. the architecture isn't as uniform though, and is a mismash of different styles. but i do love the atmosphere.</li>
<li>amherst: very similar to williams except that it is in a larger town. very quintessential college-town feel. it is absolutely beautiful around here, especially when you are on the deck/balcony thing off in the science building and gazing out to the mountains in the distance. </li>
<li>swarthmore: my dad thought it looked like a high school; i personally loved the cozy feeling, plus the interior of the buildings are amazingly nice. the library is definitely unique; rather than being intimidating, it was warm and welcoming, with comfy chairs placed in clusters on the first floor to allow for studying. there are many wonderful little spots on campus, like the amphitheater and the many trails around campus with lovely flora (since the college is on an arboretum). the arts building is very nice, with an auditorium that has a glass wall, allowing the audience to look into the forest. </li>
</ul>
<p>brown, harvard, and penn also have nice, but very traditional-feeling (at least to me) campuses. they didn't stand out as much in my memory. northwestern is a mix of building styles, both ugly and nice, but has a great location by the lake. uchicago's campus is wonderful from the pictures i've seen, but i've never actually visited. </p>
<p>but that's just my two cents</p>
<p>Wisconsin from April to November. Lakes, ducks, hiking trails--the best.</p>
<p><a href="http://community.webshots.com/album/231516126PoQUVL%5B/url%5D">http://community.webshots.com/album/231516126PoQUVL</a>
Pictures of the University of Pennsylvania campus, the best urban campus in the US, then Columbia, then Georgetown.</p>
<p>UCLA is the nicest :) I love it here !</p>
<p>Yes, UCLA is wonderful; Royce and Powell are awesome and I absolutely love Kerkhoff Hall and the study lounge. </p>
<p>Georgetown is beautiful as well, but the Lauinger Library is an eyesore.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Stanford. Stayed on campus for a month at a summer program, and it was just amazing. The style of architecture is unbeatable according to my tastes, and coupled with the beautiful weather, it was really like a utopia in the midst of everthing. From the tall, swaying palms to the Quad (sidenote: droooooool), it's simply amazing.</p></li>
<li><p>Princeton. I just went about a week and a half ago, and it was really beautiful. It really helped that it had just snowed a couple of days before we arrived. The paths, the courtyards, the gothic architecture, and the seamless integration between (yet distinct spheres of) the university and the rest of the city really made it breathtaking. And the arches...man...they're something else. Several buildings were eyesores, but the rest of the campus made up for it. I like coming from down Washington Road to the campus. It's like you're entering this olde land of myth and legend that belongs in a different century (minus the paved roads and street lights).</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I'm surprised more people haven't said William & Mary.</p>
<p>I think colleges in the UK are gorgeous...St. Andrews, for example</p>
<p>I would have to say that </p>
<p>Point Loma Narzene Universitry (San Diego) probably has one of the best locations and views of any college, although it is a very easy school to get into)</p>
<p>but i loved Stanfords campus for its unity, and UCSC for its distinct method of building placement in the trees, and UCSD for just tidy-ness and clean modern architecture, but i didn't like Berkeley for the mismatched buildings, and the thrown together look that seemed to be everywhere...</p>
<p>Campuses visited: (east): Dartmouth, Boston College, Brown, Harvard, Williams, Amherst, Smith, UVA, University of Richmond, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Wake Forest, (mid):Texas A&M, (west):USD, UCSD, UCLA, USC, UCSC, Pepperdine, UCSB, Stanford, Berkeley, St. Marys, Mills, Arizona St., U of Oregon, Washington State and University of Washington. </p>
<p>Of those campuses, my favorites are.......
Stanford - Wow.. what else to say?? Vast and beautiful. That Quad is really something.
University of Washington - I can never get enough of the cherry trees in the quad or the view from Husky stadium-east coast type/ivy covered buildings - large scale- in the Northwest.
Duke - so distinct, intimidating?, and regal.....except for East campus!</p>
<p>Close behind those would be....
Dartmouth - so cute
UVA - you can feel the history..</p>
<p>Great locations with average campuses:
UC Santa Barbara
Pepperdine</p>
<p>Best churches on grounds:
Duke
University of Richmond
USD!!</p>
<ol>
<li> Cal - Berkeley's houses, the Campanile, the views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city. Watch a football game at Memorial Stadium in the fall and its perfect.</li>
<li> Dartmouth - This is what a college should look like. I'm biased. Class of 09.</li>
<li> Princeton -The stone dorms with the wooden fireplaces, the line of eating clubs on Prospect Street, Lake Carnegie.</li>
<li> Williams - It's in a pretty nice spot.</li>
<li> Harvard - Not a big fan of the school, but the dorms overlooking the Charles seem awfully nice, plus you're living in the middle of most historically significant campus in the U.S.</li>
</ol>
<p>LAST PLACE
Stanford - The whole campus reeks of elitism and egotis. The whole place just seems really dry and brown.</p>
<p>I'm talking campus here, not area like many. </p>
<ol>
<li> Princeton</li>
<li> Notre Dame</li>
<li> UPenn</li>
<li> USC </li>
<li> Yale</li>
</ol>
<p>I see a lot of UCSD's and I just don't see the beauty in UCSD's campus. La Jolla is a nice area but the campus is full of outdated looking buildings interspersed with really advanced looking buildings. There is no continuity to the place. Also UCSB is very similar in that patches look nice but other areas look old (especially around the main library). </p>
<p>In terms of UC's, Berkeley has the best campus IMO followed VERY closely by UCLA.</p>
<p>Princeton!</p>
<p>Of the ones I've seen, my favorites...</p>
<p>1) USC
2) Santa Clara
3) SDSU</p>
<p>1) Miami/Ohio---the quintessential 'college campus'. Red-brick, clean, self-contained.</p>
<p>2) Duke---beautifully gothic, imposing to be sure. Almost like a ride at Disneyworld. Duke Gardens is breathtaking.</p>
<p>3) Boston U.---absolutely no one has mentioned this one, but once you get off manic Commonwealth Ave towards the Charles River, Bay State Road with its brownstones, just reeks of history and education.</p>