<p>I was going to reply… but why duplicate a thread from just three months ago asking the identical question ??</p>
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<p>Here is my reply:</p>
<p>I have been to many of the campuses mentioned:</p>
<p>Yale: awesome campus, crummy city
Stanford: Open, slightly random campus almost purely tile roofed, 2 story kind of boring buildings. Great for claustrophobics. Surrounding city is very nice suburb.
UCLA: Some beautiful architecture, rolling hills, tens of thousands of trees. Surrounding area is Westwood, Holmby Hills (Playboy Mansion) and Bel Air (home of Gary Winnick’s $150M hilltop home.
USC: OK campus, really lousy surrounding neighborhood.
Pepperdine: Ocean view, sparse architecture, not many trees. NOT beautiful in my book. Surrounding area nice but also lacking in trees.
Harvard: A little old and run down, vs. old and well kept. Surrounding city is lively.
Berkeley: similar to Harvard.
Cornell (my wife’s input): Beautiful campus but a real hassle for five months of snow.</p>
<p>I attended both Stanford and UCLA. UCLA is to me much the prettier campus, as I am partial to hills and trees.</p>