<p>Sorry, I had to interrupt here. What about Caltech or even UCLA?! The fact that you listed USC right after Stanford makes me wonder where your ties lie.</p>
<p>The Ivy League Schools of the West:</p>
<p>Stanford
Caltech
Berkeley
UCLA
Claremont McKenna
Harvey Mudd
USC
(8th spot, your choice)</p>
<p>Both USC and UCLA campus architecture could be mistaken for Ivy League, if that’s what you’re looking for. </p>
<p>As a matter of fact, Hollywood producers film at these campuses and pretend they’re some crazy prestigious school all the time.</p>
<p>Pomona is better than CMC.</p>
<p>Sentiment, I don’t know of any Ivy League school that has Italian Renaissance architecture. -.-</p>
<p>^That’s true. UCLA poses as a bunch of random universities where it shows no resemblance. For example, it was Berkeley on the OC. USC was Brown. lolz</p>
<p>Anyone who doesn’t think Berkeley’s prestigious probably hasn’t gotten out much. I can’t even count how many times I’ve heard someone mistake it for an Ivy. Here’s a gallup poll done every few years (not sure if there’s a more recent one)</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Number One University in Eyes of Public](<a href=“Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public”>Harvard Number One University in Eyes of Public)</p>
<p>Notice that the only schools ahead of Berkeley–in the eyes of the public–are Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and MIT. I’m not surprised. To be clear: I am not saying that Berkeley is on par with these academically (nor am I saying it isn’t)–don’t confuse a claim of prestige with a claim of quality.</p>
<p>Also its campus is closer to looking like an Ivy than even Stanford, which doesn’t have lots of huge buildings with classical architecture.</p>
<p>(For the record–because I know plenty of people are ready to jump down my throat–I’m a Stanford student with no ties to Berkeley. But I know it’s pretty prestigious, not just on the West Coast, but all over the country and the world.)</p>
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<p>In the movie Orange County, it was Stanford. haha, as if.</p>
<p>Chapman has colonial style buildings. Chapman University, founded in 1861, is one of the oldest, most prestigious private universities in California.</p>
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Meh, the buildings between the buildings of both universities are red. Stanford is actually a rather new university 11 years younger than USC. </p>
<p>Most of Stanford’s ancient “Ivy” feel is fabricated. Of course, as others have already mentioned, the Ivies are in the constant hobby of artificially aging their buildings themselves.</p>
<p>Stanford’s “Ivy” feel is not fabricated–they designed the campus to look nothing like the Ivies. It’s Spanish mission revival architecture (which by the way looks drastically different from USC–Stanford has no red buildings, just the rooftops ;)). Any “faux Ivy feel” that you or others might sense comes from your expectations of it being an Ivy-quality school.</p>
<p>When my friends came to visit me once, they were disappointed–they thought it was beautiful, but they said they had pictured grand buildings, pillars, cracked walls with ivy growing up them, etc. Most people who visit Stanford, I think, are surprised by its actual appearance; some of them think it looks like a hotel or country club, probably because it didn’t live up to their expectations of the “Ivy look.”</p>