<p>Furman, Elon are routinely mentioned as some of the most beautiful in the nation. So is Wake Forest.</p>
<p>Fordham-Rose Hill in the Bronx, is stunning, and adjacent to the New York Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo and Wildlife Conservation.</p>
<p>Duke, Princeton, Dartmouth, ND, Stanford. For top LAC’s-Williams, Davidson, Holy Cross, Bowdoin.</p>
<p>Only including the ones I’ve visited:</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
</ol>
<p>Fordham is a piece of *****! I go to school on the campus and I’d reather go to a local community college than to Fordham…</p>
<p>Tell us how you really feel, why don’t you? LOL. Lots of people, including Princeton Review, think Fordham’s Bronx campus is very pretty. If you would rather go to a local community college, then why didn’t you? And while UVa has some very attractive parts of the campus, it also has some that are not so attractive. But I’m not into school bashing. Good luck on getting into UVa. I have my doubts you are really at Fordham now, unless you are a Fordham Prep dude.</p>
<p>Ayo Holla at the Prep. FP where it at ma BOI</p>
<p>ghostbuster raises an interesting point, particularly where large universities are concerned. They often have an interesting architectural feature or focal point that simply plays out or gets buried with expansion over time. </p>
<p>The University of Virginia -
A prime example is UVA which I’ve never been to but, just playing around with Bing Maps [users are advised to click where it says, “aerial map” and then, “birdseye view”], it took me about ten minutes to find the famous Thomas Jefferson designed Great Lawn. Before that you have to navigate block after block of rather nondescript modern buildings that would have stood out more had they not hewn so closely to the red-brick pattern: [Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“university of virginia charlottesville va - Bing Maps”>university of virginia charlottesville va - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill -
Certainly UNC-Chapel Hill deserves to be at the top of anybody’s list of schools with discreet southern charm. But, as with UVA, you have to locate its center. Look north just across from East Franklin Street (try not to get distracted by the practice fields and huge athletic stadiums along the way): [Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“university of north carolina at chapel hill, nc - Bing Maps”>university of north carolina at chapel hill, nc - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>Duke -
Same with Duke which has an impressive core of gothic quadrangles (all constructed in the twentieth century) but the average North Carolinian probably never ventures past its sprawling but highly-rated medical center: [Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“duke university - Bing Maps”>duke university - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>Williams College -
Williams (which I have been to) is an interesting case. A small New England college, it’s chief drawing points were its natural surroundings which early benefactors were wise not to compete with; generations of prefrosh can remember driving up to Baxter Hall (the old one) and asking for directions to the college, only to be told they were standing in the middle of it. All of that has changed; a casual visitor to today’s Baxter Hall (circa 2006) would have no problem knowing they are in the presence of a very rich, and modern acropolis: [Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“williamstown, ma - Bing Maps”>williamstown, ma - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>“only to be told they were standing in the middle of it.” ha, ha, ha. Good one:)</p>
<p>I thought Cornell was very impressive. Wow. And I’m surprised someone mention U of Chicago. The surrounding neighborhood is horrible, and the buildings I visited seemed more than a little run down and old.</p>
<p>My two favorites from your list are UPenn and Columbia. Love the urban and historic feel that is similar for both. Of course this is such a personal question that there is no right or wrong, just what each person likes.</p>
<p>ive visited columbia and it does not have the traditional huge frisbee throwing lawn. it is small in comparison to others. therefore i didnt like it.
uchicago has an awesome campus imo.
princeton’s campus can be depressing.</p>
<p>the rest i dont know…never been to them</p>
<p>williamsdad also makes some good points. Even with the help of Bing Maps I found myself literally “all over the map” trying to find Hyde Park once I’d wandered away from it on my computer: [Bing</a> Maps<a href=“it%20also%20begs%20the%20question,%20just%20how%20safe%20is%20Washington%20Park?”>/url</a></p>
<p>Cornell (which I’ve been to), OTOH, I found surprisingly navigable, mapwise, even though I just realized that after all these years I’ve been calling Beebe Lake, Lake Cayuga, incorrectly: [url=<a href=“cornell - Bing Maps”>cornell - Bing Maps]Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“university of chicago - Bing Maps”>university of chicago - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>
You apparently did not visit between Nov. 1 and May 1. 
The longest March you would ever experience is a March at Cornell waiting for some random flower to break through the snow.</p>
<p>Cornell is not in the snow belt. But it is gorges!</p>
<p>^ where is the snow belt? And yes, it has several gorges.</p>
<p>Cornell has long been known to have one of the most beautiful campuses in the world, given all the gorges etc.</p>
<p>Wonder why it took so long to surface on this thread?
Go Big Red!!!</p>
<p>
The problem is that the pin for the University when using the traditional map is correct, but when you move to the “birds eye” feature, the map shifts considerably. I don’t think the pin in the birds eye mode is even on Grounds. If you use Google maps and switch to satellite view, [the</a> pin remains on The Lawn](<a href=“Google Maps”>Google Maps).</p>
<p>Perhaps Bing has some bugs to work out and isn’t the best tool to use in this discussion. :)</p>
<p>^^is it that or is it just difficult to come up with new ideas for red-brick after 200 years?:
[Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“amherst college - Bing Maps”>amherst college - Bing Maps) :)</p>
<p>[Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“amherst college - Bing Maps”>amherst college - Bing Maps)</p>
<p>[Bing</a> Maps](<a href=“amherst college - Bing Maps”>amherst college - Bing Maps)</p>