University of Rochester
Lots of snow, but many great places to run, beautiful campus located on a river with views of the city.
University of Rochester
Lots of snow, but many great places to run, beautiful campus located on a river with views of the city.
yahhh!!!! wrote:
MY top 3 would have to be
Cornell
Stanford
Princeton (in the shi'ty state of NJ unfortunately)
NJ gets a bad rap, mostly by people who have never spent an appreciable amount of time there. Personally, I would say Jersey is in upper echelon beautiful states. Obviously I am not the only one who feels this way because NJ per capita, probably has the highest number of multi-millionaires... these are people who could live just about anywhere they choose. If you have never been to Cape May or the Delaware Water Gap basin area and all you have seem is looking out your window driving up the Turnpike, then you have never seen NJ.
Best Campuses, I agree with the 3 you mentioned, but I would have to say West Point (USMA) is with out doubt the best I have ever seen. Also, ASU and UNC are pretty cool and there are a lot of small liberal arts schools in the NE that are very beautiful as well.
spearchucker wrote:
1. Stanford
2. U VA
3. Princeton
4. Pepperdine
5. Colgate
6. Dennison
7. West Point
8. Middlebury
9. UC Santa Cruz
10. Bowdoin
Dennison?!?
Kenyon.
#2 this year, but been #1 last couple years.
UBC, UCB, CUB
I went to UCSB for a trimester and was wondering why the alleged photos of it didn't look familiar. Maybe because that's USCB, the University of South Carolina-Beaufort. And not that great-looking of a campus.
whiskerj wrote:
I understand Sewanee is generally thought to be the most beautiful...but no votes for Dartmouth? To me it is what 'college' looks like
http://www.collegemagazine.com/userFiles/FCK/articles/4139/images/Dartmouth%20New.gif
I have been to Dartmouth on multiple occasions. I suspect that the reason it gets few votes is that, for about eight months of the year, it does not look like that photo--or even remotely close to it. Quite a pretty campus in the summer, however.
As for Williams: I can remember taking some athletes who were enrolled at a major urban university to a competition at Williams. The kids were creeped out: "What's with all the fields? Can't they afford buildings?"
Bob Giegengack reported something similar, back in the early days of the Yale women's program. He took some students to a cross-country meet at Cornell. In the midst of a glorious scenic bus trip through Upstate NY, right in the heart of autumn, he asked one of his athletes, "So, what do you think?" Her reply: "It's just a bunch of trees."
Physical college campuses are so outdated.
Sewanee and Berry College... Also fantastic campuses to run on. But I'm a bit biased.
Ferris State University
UW is really pretty, especially when you can see the mountains, and even moreso when the cherry blossoms bloom.
Dartmouth has some nice buildings and lawn, but I can't see Elon as #1 at all. Williams College is much nicer with the mountains, the old buildings, the layout, etc.:
But there are many with spectacular settings. Some of the Southwestern institutions have that kind of setting but ruin it with ugly modern buildings (Colorado, New Mexico). Some UK institutions have the most beautiful old buildings but not the geographical setting. Those with ocean and mountains, as well as classic buildings, include Pepperdine, UCSC (UCSB has the amazing setting but the buildings and campus layout I was not as impressed by when I visited), and the University of Washington.
xenonscreams wrote:
UW is really pretty, especially when you can see the mountains, and even moreso when the cherry blossoms bloom.
I've never seen any "mountains" from campus but sitting behind a beer on Monona Terrace looking out at the lake in late spring makes UW the best place on earth.
I visited over 20 schools as a high school senior and I was most impressed with Syracuse's campus.
THE Ohio State University
The title of this thread should be " so where did everyone go to college?" Because people are just saying their campus was the most beautiful.
Southern Connecticut State University is NOT the most beautiful
Syracuse is friggin ugly. The Ohio State University is not nice either. UVA, West Point, Princeton, Duke, Ole Miss, Georgia, Furman and Berry are all very nice.
I agreed with that list from the link until it got down to the final three.