What college most closely resembles Hogwarts?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Alright, alright, I have accepted that I am a dork. For those who have resisted the Harry Potter craze, I am referring to the School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. </p>

<p>Does anyone know of any colleges or universities that have that beautiful old architecture (perhaps with secret passageways and fireplaces) or big old dining rooms with long tables? Or that just remind them of Hogwarts in general? </p>

<p>I am, of course, not going to base my college decision on this, but I thought it would be a way to delay my chem hw.</p>

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<p>Rice, because the colleges go to war and fight with each other all the time (like the four houses in Hogwarts).</p>

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<p>lol, lets hope that Rice doesn't have a Slytherin-esque house.</p>

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<p>Yale (House system+architecture) or the University of Chicago (architecture)</p>

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<p>LOL, yeah, when I was touring colleges my mother and I gave each one a rating in the "Harry Potter Factor", though it was a small consideration. ;)</p>

<p>Hogwarts was actually modelled after the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (UK), which, correct me if I'm mistaken, I believe JK Rowling attended.</p>

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<p>Check out Annenberg Hall, the freshman dining hall at Harvard. It's Hogwarts all the way:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ememhall/images2/annen1.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~memhall/images2/annen1.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Harvard also assigns students to residence colleges after their freshman year, although they apparently do not use talking hat technology to make the assignments.</p>

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<p>Rice has several residential colleges which they assign students to randomly... I think it would be pretty cool if they used a sorting hat, though, and several of my friends who were at Owl Weekend with me agreed.</p>

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<p>anisky-which schools that you visited got the highest "Harry Potter Factors" (lol, great name) ?</p>

<p>coureur--Annenberg Hall is AMAZING! That is exactly the type of dining hall I am picturing. It's a pity about the talking hat technology though.</p>

<p>KrazyKow--lol, they call it "Owl weekend." How Hogwarts appropriate.</p>

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<p>I think the highest were Yale, UChicago, Bryn Mawr, and Wellesley. I might be forgetting one, but those were the main ones.</p>

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<p>Caltech has many hogwart-esque elements, although not architecturally. The difference between the houses, the classic stereotypes often applied to these houses, and a somewhat rich history, and an intrecate labrynthine underground. Of course it's heavily math/science oriented, but that isn't too different from witchcraft and wizardry now is it?</p>

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<p>Wow, I would never have thought of Caltech, but "an intricate labyrinth underground" does sound appealing. Or would, if I didn't loathe science (well, chemistry) so much.</p>

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<p>Definitely St. Andrews, I thought that before I read that Hogwarts was actually based off of it.</p>

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<p>bju - they have house competitions</p>

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<p>Yale looks hogwartsy...their campus is modeled off the St. Andrew's Campus (i think..might be Cambridge?? but one of them) and it looks very hogwartsy</p>

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<p>Owls are Rice's mascot. :)</p>

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<p>I want to go to a school that looks like a castle, haha. Not my deciding factor, but I want a Hogwarts-like school, with a big, comfy library. How much of a book freak am I?</p>

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<p>JK Rowling went to the University of Exeter, though she lived and wrote the first novel in Edinburgh.</p>

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<p>oneiros, I have the same image in my mind, lol. A gorgeous, wood paneled, plush library would be able to sway my decision if it was really close.</p>

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<p>University of Chicago has traditional buildings but a modern library, I think (the Regenstein). But one dining hall there (Hutchinson Commons) totally reminded me of the Hogwarts big hall.</p>

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<p>Sewanee has the gothic architecture.</p>

<p>Hamilton has a dining hall that looks Hogwarts-y.</p>