<p>SUNY Albany has an okay campus - the podium is all concrete, but outside of that there's a lot of green!</p>
<p>SUNY Oswego - area is beautiful, buildings are bleh</p>
<p>Clarkson University - BEAUTIFUL campus - lots of hills! Some buildings look a lot nicer than others</p>
<p>SLU - Pretty well rounded campus, on the average side</p>
<p>Kenyon has a very Hogwartish feel!</p>
<p>beautiful: bc, trinity, pomona, occidental</p>
<p>average: wesleyan, usc, chapman</p>
<p>complete crap: pitzer, suny brooklyn</p>
<p>btw, kenyon is hogwarts.</p>
<p>Best looking: Harvard, Columbia, Duke, Wake Forest, UVA, William and Mary</p>
<p>USMA </p>
<p>West Point is very pretty especially in the fall</p>
<p>beautiful: UChicago</p>
<p>ugly as ****: Illinois Institute of Technology</p>
<p>Neverborn-</p>
<p>Agreed, 100%. You must be a native Chicagoan. :)</p>
<p>What do you guys think about Northwestern?</p>
<p>I thought that Northwestern's location on the lake was one of the coolest features of any college I visited.</p>
<p>Loyola and NWU are also pretty.</p>
<p>Katharos: Not quite native Chicagoan - I even put ketchup on my hot dogs. UChi is my #1 for transferring and I'm imprisoned at IIT right now.</p>
<p>neverborn: Good luck with the transfer. I wish you all the best.</p>
<p>Yeah, IIT needs to do something about aesthetics. </p>
<p>Loyola is pretty in the sense that it is in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of the big city. The buildings are beautiful architecture-wise.</p>
<p>Admittedly, I have never visited Northwestern. Yes, I have been to Evanston once or twice, but never to the campus. So my opinion is based on the photos on Northwestern's website. It is quite a pretty school.</p>
<p>Santa Clara is beautiful, as is Stanford (if you like red-tiled roofs). Hawaii Pacific University is very pretty as well. Colorado State is pretty too. Loyola is pretty too.</p>
<p>Katharos: Hustle and bustle of the big city? :?</p>
<p>The architecture of LUC's campus is amazing (Lake Shore Campus), the location and aesthetics are amazing being by the lake and all - but I don't get saying it's in the hustle and bustle of the big city - it's 40mins from downtown by Red Line. Loyola's my safety for transfering - IIT is evil and I MUST LEAVE.</p>
<p>As for IIT - the buildings were all designed by Mies van der Rohe, and as such, we can't F with them or the Mies Society flips. It's a homage to the rust belt campuses in the 1950s. NOTHING has changed since then except to build a new "student center" which is a bunch of hallways in a building - it is an abomination. One arch. student I know here says that the campus's architecture isn't "for me" - if you look at certain structures it shows all the buildings are "subservient" to Crown Hall (arch. school) to show Architecture is the center of IIT .... Newsflash: Don't care, want pretty buildings. This place sucks. :(</p>
<p>"I thought that Northwestern's location on the lake was one of the coolest features of any college I visited."</p>
<p>i heard they really emphasize how cool being by the lake is on their tours.</p>
<p>Northwestern is one of my top choice schools. But it has to be pretty to offset the cold weather. Haha.</p>
<p>As for all these people saying University of Maryland College Park is ugly, no, it's not so bad! Especially if you are an honors humanities student and never have to leave the beautiful bubble that is the center horseshoe. The campus gets uglier as you radiate outwards, but I noticed that where most of my classes would be it's really great. I mean, for comp sci people it's very "meh", I guess. And also I suppose they haven't seen UMBC a.k.a. One Big Fugly Parking Lot.</p>
<p>A word on College Park: it's not a ghetto! It's a very diverse neighborhood, for sure. We stopped to eat lunch in the pizza hut and were the only white people there. But I never once felt unsafe. It was just a bunch of families. So, I don't know how it is wandering about at 1:00 AM, but I felt perfectly safe there during the day...way safer than I felt in Wheaton by Chuck Levon's >.>.</p>
<p>I had never seen Harvard campus until two summers ago. I thought the buildings were pretty nice but I wasn't that impressed. Yes, there is green grass in the quadrangles but where are the flowers? </p>
<p>I grew up in the neighborhood of UChicago, walking by the main gates everyday on my way to and from school. I would spend a few minutes at Botany Pond on my way home on a nice day. In the 40 years since, the city of Chicago and the campus of UChicago have grown even more beautiful. I think it's the flowers everywhere - in the quadrangles, along Lake Shore Drive and even at the airport. There is now an official garden in the Midway near one of the libraries on campus that is beautiful with benches and sculpture.<br>
A young student at UChicago who hails from Boston, thought UChicago was more beautiful than Harvard and Yale because of its Gothic architecture with ivy and open lay-out. UChicago has the same architecture (for the most part) as Yale but has more room to feel more open. To me that is more welcoming. However, I'm not sure I like the Max Pavlesky dormitories - the colors are too bright next to the other architecture.</p>
<p>Northwestern is pretty too with the lake front. But I think it could use more flowers too - I haven't been there in a couple of years.</p>
<p>Well, Northwestern does have the Shakespeare garden, a small garden full of flowers found in Shakespeare books. It's a really serene, beautiful place in the summer and spring.</p>
<p>Northwestern's lakefront campus is such a great feature as well. People love to take walks there, doing homework or relaxing by the lake. There's a massive party in the spring called Dillo Day that happens by the lake. Also, there are sometimes fireworks and lots of water activities that happen on the lake.</p>
<p>It sounds nice - I guess we didn't see that on the official tour at NU.</p>
<p>Yes, the Max dorms are quite a sight. Some people her make fun of them by calling them Barbie's Prison.</p>
<p>neverborn: Loyola is right in the city. There is a lot of action going on. The UChicago is situated in a neighborhood that has more of a community feel, which I like more.</p>
<p>My mom and sister were in Conn. a few weeks ago and stopped by the Yale campus, which they thought was gorgeous; it reminded them of Chicago, except they said it had a greater variety of different architecture styles (ex. colonial, mocern, gothic) and had an older, worn in feel to them.</p>