<p>Sewanee: The University of the South</p>
<p>A 10,000 acre mountaintop populated by 1,300 students and the residents of a small town, most of whom are affiliated with this small LAC -- it's perfection. There's an architectural integrity to the campus. There are beautiful vistas overlooking the plains below, lakes, forests, caves, etc.</p>
<p>From what I have seen</p>
<p>UCLA-Big, spread out, very nice big buildings (royce hall, powell library, etc.) the campus is extremely well maintained, I found it very nice.</p>
<p>UCSD-Very well kept as well, but the buildings are less impressive other than the library and the engineering buildings. The area you can't beat though.</p>
<p>UCI-Boring looking buildings, but very well kept and good area.</p>
<p>USC-Beautiful campus, very well kept, close together but still fairly large. Only problem is the area around the campus is the opposite.</p>
<p>UVa- It was OK, everyone else seems to think it is amazing, but I found it to be a bit messy. Sure the lawn is very nice, but the newer roads and buildings put up don't entirely fit in my opinion. Still nice, but it just wasn't my taste.</p>
<p>Cornell-An extremely nice campus. It has a lake, nature trails, beautiful gardens, old style buildings, new style buildings, the dorms look amazing, and they are all together which is really nice to meet people and feel a sense of community. I loved this campus, the only problem is the weather which makes it seem gloomy in the winter because it is cloudy a lot. Look at a picture on a brochure on a sunny day and you will be amazed.</p>
<p>Ithaca-I only drove through here while visiting Cornell. IMO it looked like a dump, nothing special at all, and pretty small, boring buildings, and nothing very appealing.</p>
<p>UPenn-I guess you could say OK, it has some older looking buildings, but sort of an urban touch to it.</p>
<p>Rutgers-Some parts are very nice, and others aren't so nice. It is so big and spread out, it is hard to say.</p>
<p>I'm glad to see someone compliment Cornell! When people talk about the campus, they often say it's too large, too impersonal, and otherwise unattractive. I'm going up to visit in October, so it's good to hear a differing opinion. I absolutely love their program, so I'd be thrilled to go there if it's a good fit environmentally and socially.</p>
<p>San Diego State is pretty!! it's my favorite. It reminds me of Malaga, Espana.</p>
<p>Great-Duke, Princeton, Rice, Stanford. LAC's -Holy Cross, Williams, Colgate,and Bowdoin. Good- Notre Dame, UNC, UVA, W&M, Amherst, and Smith.</p>
<p>vanderbilt has the hottest girls..god i cant hold it in any longer</p>
<p>I must admit to being puzzled over why people think Brtandeis is not an attractive campus. I've visited several times and think it is quite nice: plenty of trees, landscaping, interesting architechture. It's very compact but not cramped. Overall, I would say definitely attractive. Bottom line is you need to see for yourself.</p>
<p>nyu is pretty ugly.
sarah lawrence is beautiful, and of course i like columbia.</p>
<p>I attend Cornell University, and it has a beautiful campus. I know people dislike Cornell's campus, because of how the winters are (snowy, overcast, and cold). But I'm biased cause I'm a snow loving freak, and I think the white landscape in the winter at Cornell is absolutely beautiful, and during the Fall and Spring the views atop the mountains are absolutely wonderful.</p>
<p>haverford is beautiful</p>
<p>i'm surprised people like lehigh.. i think it's nothing special</p>
<p>Stanford is deffinetly a stunning school. Everything about it is beautiful, plus Palo Alto is the best college town you could imagine. And on top fo that Stanford Shopping center is one of the most beautiful outdoor malls I've ever been to. </p>
<p>Bucknell's also a really pretty school! </p>
<p>UMass was REALLY uly.</p>
<p>i seem to be the only person that doesn't like Stanford. it's certainly beautiful, but im not a fan of old california mission type architecture. i like schools with gothic type architecture, like Yale.</p>
<p>Actually, I don't like Stanford's campus either, not just because I go to Berkeley.</p>
<p>I like Oxford's campus and schools with the ancient/Harry Potteresque looking architecture. </p>
<p>But I have to admit UCLA's campus is beautiful, just the pollution and location ruin it for me. </p>
<p>I wish that Berkeley had more ancient- looking buildings.</p>
<p>I'm surprised that people think that Yale is ugly. It's probably a matter of perspective-if you love buildings that are centuries old and date back to the American Revolution, you'll love Yale. Personally I found it to be gorgeous...more like an art museum than a college.</p>
<p>Of the places I've seen, Wellesley (my alma mater) is by far the loveliest -- beautiful buildings, perfectly maintained, and a surpassingly lovely site with hills, woods, meadows, and a sparkling lake. This is an incredibly rich college and it shows.</p>
<p>Other pretty ones: Swarthmore, Yale, Smith, Williams, Bucknell. Harvard Yard is pretty in an 18th century way, as are some of the residential houses, but unlike Yale, which manages to be a cohesive campus despite being in the middle of the city, Harvard is confusingly intermingled with Cambridge. Brown & Amherst are too monotonously made up of red brick Georgian buildings.</p>
<p>One of my kids went to BU, which is really homely -- ill-matched buildings, many of them converted from other uses, stretched out along a wide and not very leafy section of Comm Ave -- but she loved it anyway because of its fabulous location and excellent music school. Another went to Bard, not mentioned here previously -- small with lots of really interesting architecture, all set on a gorgeous piece of land overlooking the Hudson. She transferred there from Northeastern, which has a drab campus filled with gray utilitarian brick buildings.</p>
<p>UConn is famously hideous -- a mishmash of buildings, many poorly-constructed and/or poorly-maintained. It's what you get when you hire architects and contractors on the basis of political connections rather than quality.</p>
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<p>With all due respect, what are you talking about? UConn is known for being one of the nicest public universities in the country. Their campus is gorgeous, and most of the buildings are new. When was the last time you were there?</p>
<p>my contribution to this Thread</p>
<p>University of Richmond in Virginia is the prettiest I have seen so far.</p>
<p>Most art school campuses are ugly or nonexistent. This sucks since art students are probably the ones who would appreciate beautiful gothic architecture and such the most!</p>