<p>Wesleyan. Has that weathered, old money look.</p>
<p>I really have to say West Point is the most beautiful. Similar (and maybe even better) architecture to, say, Princeton, but with a kick-butt view of the Hudson, etc.</p>
<p>It's too bad the cadets don't get to enjoy it much.</p>
<p>Bucknell is is really nice. I thought Amherst was gorgeous
but being ED Williams I must tell you that I like Williams quite a bit :p</p>
<p>Oberlin. It's hot</p>
<p>I've probably been to around 30-40 campuses, and I gotta say that the best ones would be....</p>
<p>-UCSB
-Pepperdine
-USD
-Boston College
-Yale</p>
<p>USMA with the "million dollar view" of the Hudson Valley from Trophy Point.</p>
<p>Pomona College and Scripps College are also very beautiful campuses.</p>
<p>I've been to 36 schools-
Prettiest:
Duke (the old part- georgian archetecture)
Hamilton (only because the facilities are AMAZING... for so little students, they have basically anything they want... including the Spur's basketball court...)
William and Mary (tourists get lost on the colonial williamsburg tours and accidentaly wander onto campus)
Princeton- absolutely beautiful- buidlings are a lot like Yales, only more secluded and seemingly better well-kept
University of Rochester (the snow doesn't do much for it though :) )
Cornell- very impressive
Wake Forest- incredibly impressive- must be all that DI money (and the tobacco money cough cough)
Elon- not beautiful in an impressive sort of way, but quaintly beautiful with a southern red brick pathway flair
Haverford- cute, with a somewhat colonial feel... Very cozy atmosphere</p>
<p>Ugliest Campuses
SUNY Binghamton (boxes, with not a tree in sight)
UMBC (one pretty path, but the rest is like an institution, common to most state schools)
Juniata College- in a utter state of disrepair with horrible facilities- my high school track is wayyyyyyy better than their stadium.
Albright College- the most depressing place in the world. I am not kidding. It resembled a nursing home- the kind you don't want to end up in.
Allegheny College- the surrounding area was dying, and half the buidlings were boarded up, with some burnt ones. And it's not even it a typicaql city- a semi-urban area- small land areas, but nothing to do in the immediate area. The school itself was pretty though, but I consider the surrounding neighborhood to be a part of the campus.</p>
<p>I'm not an expert, but I've obviously seen a lot. I have more where that came from if you want to ask about schools along the east coast</p>
<p>west coast... would you put ucsb over usd... or is that list in no particular order</p>
<p>It was really in no particular order..... all 5 have great campuses.</p>
<p>William and Mary ( in fact written up in Southern Living for its campus last year)
Richmond
Duke
Wake Forest
Rice
Stanford
Princeton
Cal Tech (very surprising for an engineering school)</p>
<p>Here's Princeton Review's top ten list:</p>
<p>Duke, Stanford, Notre Dame, Dartmouth, Princeton. LAC's- Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Williams, Smith, Colgate.</p>
<p>Princeton Review's annual survey of 115,000 college students at the Best 361 Colleges named these as the Top 10 most beautiful campuses:
- Pepperdine U
- Princeton U
- Sweet Briar College
- Agnes Scott College
- Sewanne-University of the South
- Mt. Holyoak College
- Scripps College
- Kenyon College
- Loyola Marymount U
- UC Santa Cruz</p>
<p>If you're in the Northeast, check out Holy Cross. Small with an excellent mix of classic old, some classy new with beautiful landscaping. It's like a smaller version of Duke.</p>
<p>I thought Holy Cross was completely unremarkable when I visited, although Fenwick and O'Kane Halls are quite nice.</p>
<p>I really wasn't impressed with UC Santa Cruz's campus. It may have just been a bad weather day though as everyone seems to like it.</p>
<p>Santa Clara
Stanford
Rice (if you don't mind crappy Houston weather)
Tufts, I'm not sure I would call it pretty, but I really liked the campus just in general. Does have a great view of Boston from the top of the library.</p>
<p>even in the drizzly rain, Middlebury was amazingly beautiful. the mountains in the background don't hurt anything either.</p>
<p>My goodness arcadia . . . is your mission while on this site to help or offer advice (as it should be) or to knock people opinions?</p>
<p>To refer to Holy Cross, which I visited several weeks ago, as "completely unremarkable" is not only unnecessary, it is simply absurd.</p>
<p>The place is georgeous, plain and simple, has won national landscaping awards and is a virtual aboretum.</p>
<p>I guess that if it's not Middlebury, it can't be good?</p>
<p>I see negative responses to positive reviews as helpful here if done with some tact. I, for example, was not that wowed by William and Mary, which has been mentioned several times here. For me, the aesthetics of a campus are a very important factor. Since evaluating them is subjective, I like hearing when someone has a counter opinion.</p>