Bird? Newhouse1? The varied architecture at Cuse is one of the positives for S23 and I. I love visiting and walking around campus.
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My kid’s lower, middle, upper (not all the same school), and college, have been blue and white. Bonus!!
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Looking at pictures and a campus map, I’m pretty sure it’s the Newhouse complex (which is apparently technically three buildings, though they’re visually one?)—they fit into their environment, and the landscape and building architects actually understood the importance of making the massive scale of cast concrete work for a human scale.
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Vanderbilt is going the opposite way of Northwestern in terms of architecture…Vanderbilt is trying to look like Yale which copied Princeton which copied Oxford
I’ve posted before about how my S23 called me from his tour of UCSD, breathless with excitement about how it was “the most beautiful” campus he’d ever seen… turns out that he loves brutalist architecture. It made me laugh because I’d seen post after post in the “Colleges Crossed Off List” thread about how kids hated the same buildings my kid liked.
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Yale is older than Princeton. They copied Oxford all by themselves! 
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There is a lot of construction going on. And the campus is a very strange shape. But I love that whatever they are building is in old style.
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The campus has changed radically over the last 30 years. Graduated in 94 when there were “only” five colleges. Now there’s going to be eight. The one thing I do not like about what they’ve done is take out many trees and many green open spaces. I lived in Warren and there was this long stretch of space we could walk from the apartments to the Price Center. Now it’s gone…filled with buildings, the raised tram, and an amphitheater. No longer are there open parking lots, good bye Warren front and back lot, parking lots at Third and Muir or Revelle, and no more basketball courts at Third or Revelle! Memorable times and games! It’s hardly the school I used to know. Still a fantastic school, the architecture is modern, but it’s no longer a school I recognize.
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True point, though having toured a number of them, there are shades of religiosity at Catholic universities. Our sense was that religion was a little less prominent at the Jesuit schools , with Georgetown lowest on the spectrum (especially among the student body), but others’ mileage may vary.
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Recent snapshot of the Wesleyan arts center; if done well, brutalism can fit right in with its environment:
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I never actually thought much about it, but I was really fond of Mudd library at Oberlin when I was a student there
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If you’re at an ABET school, you can have great success.
I know some on here love , School of Mines, Louisville and Missouri Science and Tech.
There’s so many
As for likes and why -
Alabama - own dorm room and distance to home and a clean and beautiful campus
UAH - own room
Fl Tech - close to coast and aviation - both on campus opportunities and companies surrounding. But didn’t like they had a smoking area.
Purdue - food
What didn’t we like:
FSU - school off campus
Embry Riddle - run down.
UMD - too cold
PSU - too rural
UVA - too ‘historical’
UTK and UIUC - ugly campuses. At the time he thought rundown. I did too - UIUC.
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I just wanted to quickly note I am very glad your kid enjoyed their visit to Kalamazoo. I think you nailed why sharing it with Western Michigan really widens the possible feel of the experience.
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Thanks! K College is a hidden gem, for sure. I was so impressed- I’m surprised more people don’t have it on their lists, even our guidance counselor didn’t know much about it!
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My life long BFF’s daughter goes there (Senior) and is just 100% over it. Too small, too cliquey, and too many rich kids. Her words not mine.
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That sounds like a lot of LACs.
But it is specifically about Kenyon.
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Ohhhh. When I clicked on the ‘respond’ to message I thought it was referencing Kalamazoo, aka K.
Glad you clarified.
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My daughter graduated from Kenyon last year, and she loved it (we’re not rich).
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That’s great, I’m glad it worked for her. My friend’s daughter is graduating this year and hasn’t really been happy there the last two years. Vocally so and definitely rich.
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