<p>Babson has a beautiful, self-contained campus. Conn Coll has so much green and a huge arboretum. UPenn is stunning, as is Georgetown. BC has too much of that yellow brick but a great resovoir and church. ditto Villanova...We thought W & M was over rated, contrived town....and URichmond was quite a surprise, very appealing...</p>
<p>Quirkily, you'll notice that JohnWesley said most attractive LAC campuses in NEW ENGLAND, so don't feel like he snubbed Swarthmore, intentionally or unintentionally. JW is a gentleman, if nothing else.</p>
<p>Pepperdine.....USD.....Notre Dame.....Michigan.....University of California Los .........</p>
<p>i'll take william and mary.</p>
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<p>Quirkily, you'll notice that JohnWesley said most attractive LAC campuses in NEW ENGLAND, so don't feel like he snubbed Swarthmore, intentionally or unintentionally. JW is a gentleman, if nothing else.<</p>
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<p>I would be happy to second that. :)
Seriously, Swarthmore's is probably the most beautiful campus in the entire country; it's like you're entering an estate, not a college; the winding road leading past Sharples gives the illusion of every building sitting on its own perfectly framed, picture post-card plot of land, well apart every other building. It's almost unfair to include Swarthmore in any competition.</p>
<p>can someone send me some links to pictures of swarthmore</p>
<p>"i love the feeling that comes with walking into the columbia campus, coming from the bustling city into this green expanse. nonetheless i dont think its the most beautiful. that title would have to go to yale."</p>
<p>My sentiments exactly, goankit.</p>
<p>well i saw some pics from a friends visit to swarthmore last week, it really is very beautiful, whether it wins the contest i can't tell yet</p>
<p>i'm excited though because i'm visiting middlebury in two weeks which makes me really like what some people are saying
colby also looks nice (i'm visiting them too)</p>
<p>if you're a girl, bryn mawr was very beautiful, i mean the archways and the cloister that i saw were great</p>
<p>going off princeton review's list: agnes scott is also very beautiful, but i want something with more acreage</p>
<p>This should send you to a slide show of Swat's newest dorm, Alice Paul Hall. I love the sleek modern lines and the way it's not afraid to stand out from the trees:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rawnarch.com/Swarthmore.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.rawnarch.com/Swarthmore.gif</a></p>
<p>And this is a more traditional view of the Swarthmore main campus:
<a href="http://www.seanius.net/albums/2002-pennsylvania/012137_swarthmore.sized.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://www.seanius.net/albums/2002-pennsylvania/012137_swarthmore.sized.jpg</a></p>
<p>A few beefs:</p>
<p>You want to see what a college's campus looks like. So you go to its web site, and eventually find their "virtual tour," and it has like 15 photos of people in laboratories and classrooms, and maybe 4 exterior photos. Does anybody actually choose a college because their chemistry labs are slightly cooler than other colleges'?</p>
<p>When a college's exterior photos look great, and the campus looks old and distinguished. Then you discover that the campus is relatively new-- they just made it LOOK old (Colby, Chicago, Wake Forest).</p>
<p>When a college has a nice architecture theme going (Gothic, Georgian, whatever), and then some moron with no respect for tradition thinks it would be cool to put some contemporary glass-and-steel eyesore (designed by a talentless hack of an architect who took too many computer classes) right in the middle of the campus.</p>
<p>is in back of Wesleyan's Old Brownstone Row:</p>
