Ugliest Campuses and Prettiest Campuses

<p>you hated georgetown?! :-(</p>

<p>Yeah, I don't really know why. I guess a lot of it is personal preference.</p>

<p>Smith...How come no one mentioned Smith? Gorgeous campus!</p>

<p>Pretty: Yale, Dartmouth, University of Rochester</p>

<p>Eh: University of Minnesota</p>

<p>Ugly: North Dakota State University (haha), Macalester College</p>

<p>Hampden-Sydney,Davidson,Bucknell,Williams,UVA,W&L,West Point,Naval Academy</p>

<p>For anyone who goes to the Claremont Colleges-realistically how bad is the smog, and does it take away from the beauty of the campus?</p>

<p>the smog is not bad at all.</p>

<p>Duke, Princeton, Stanford,Dartmouth, Notre Dame. LAC's-Bowdoin, Williams, Holy Cross, Wellesley, and Colby are all very good.</p>

<p>I will agree with ptmagnolia said regarding the smog. Of course, I've lived in Southern California for most of my life, so I may take some smog for granted, but I really don't think it's that bad, and think the campuses are plenty beautiful enough.</p>

<p>Princeton, Michigan State, Yale, UVa, Indiana.</p>

<p>oops, I meant Princeton, Michigan State, Yale, UVa, Indiana, are the PRETTIEST imho. I can't comment on the ugliest.</p>

<p>Holy cow, people here seem to LOVE yale's campus. I find that shocking. I've been to downtown New Haven many times and I find it to pretty much be a dump. Yale's in the heart of the city, and all their buildings are reallly old. I guess it's all about taste though. I'm more into the state-of-the-art/brand new type of campuses (like UConn).</p>

<p>You have my taste in buildings then, KingJames. :) And I didn't like Yale at all...</p>

<p>Yea. Not only do I find Yale's buildings to be old and worn out (although they are doing this MASSIVE reconstruction plan), but the city is flat out disgusting to me. There's really not too much to do, and it seems like there's alot of lower-class people to me.</p>

<p>Yale's Gothic architecture is so ornate, stately and beautiful -- set amongst manicured quads and wide lawns, it's simply breathtaking. Given the collegiate Gothic, quads and residential college operation, Yale probably is the most Oxbridge-ish U of all American schools (and those 2 great English schools likewise exist in small industrial towns, themselves) ... I don't notice whether the surrounding neighborhood may be lower income because once you're on campus, the neighborhood becomes invisible. I'd hardly call Yale's campus a dump by any stretch of the imagination.</p>

<p>... btw kingjames23, as a LeBron/Cleve Cavs fan, I really dig your cc forum name.</p>

<p>I didn't realize how bad most of the buildings at UCD look until I visited a few of my friends at different schools this past year. None of the buildings match or have silimar architecture, and several of them just look dumpy. Luckily, there is lots of grass & trees to camoflauge the appearance... I love the arboredeum area though.... the small lake, walking paths, trees, and little ducks... it's pretty down there.</p>

<p>University of Washington is beautiful at night time. They have different shadings of lights and glows for their buildings. And there's an overpass which you can see the space needle and the light of the city buildings at night. I once passed it at an angle where the crescent moon was right above the space needle. It was so pretty!</p>

<p>my favorites: Haverford, Princeton, Bowdoin, Middlebury</p>

<p>other reasonably pretty ones: Colby (I go here, and while the greenery is gorgeous, the architecture isn't my style), Colgate, Dickinson, The College of New Jersey</p>

<p>ugly ones: Bates, Penn State-University Park</p>

<p>Just curious...</p>

<p>What do ya'll think of University of Georgia, Miami University (Ohio), and University of Missouri-Columbia?</p>