<p>My favorites are Middlebury and Notre Dame</p>
<p>Indiana really does have a beautiful campus, a great music school, and wide range of top ranked majors should she change her mind about music. Or if she wants it has lots of opportunities for kids to just play music without being in a major. A little light on the snow, but if you are from the south it may seem like a lot. Notre Dame has a beautiful campus and can have LOTS of snow, but the music scene is not so great.</p>
<p>Another vote here for Notre Dame. It’s not just pretty; it’s utterly inspirational. If your daughter wants a Catholic school with cold weather and a nice campus, this is it. Unfortunately, unlike Rice, USC, McGill, and BC, it’s in a crummy town.</p>
<p>And to all of you who posted some variation of “beauty is subjective” with no further information, put on your good skivvies, because Captain Obvious will be arriving shortly to give you a mega-wedgie.</p>
<p>S and I both thought Northwestern was a beautiful campus, and believe me–she’ll get snow. </p>
<p>I’d like to give a little love to St Norbert College in DePere, WI (suburb of Green Bay) that is like something out of a picture book. Always wished S would have taken an interest in that one…</p>
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<p>Not everyone has the same definition of beauty. The architecture at Santa Clara and Stanford looks too much like a Taco Bell for my personal taste. (Which is, of course, no reflection on either of those schools.) I personally don’t care for that architectural style, and it doesn’t say “college” to me. I suppose it all depends upon what your archetype of “beautiful college” is. Or Platonic form, for those so inclined. To me, the most beautiful colleges are more along the lines of a Princeton or a Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>I agree with syrystress. It’s great watching snow fall outside your window or on tv- see how much fun it is getting up at 4:30 am to shovel off your car and to shovel your driveway, go to work soaking wet, and then have to come home and do it all over again.</p>
<p>Boston College is pretty- I find it almost guilded though. Sure, the library looks like the Great Hall in Harry Potter, but there’s hardly any books in it.</p>
<p>Colleges are pretty in different way. My dad went to Notre Dame and described it as “magical.” Brown is beautiful in an old fashioned mixed with urban way.</p>
<p>U of Rochester has a handsome campus. Snow? Yeah, they’ve got that…</p>
<p>…but I like places, mainly in the west with nice surroundings:</p>
<p>U British Columbia
U of Washington
U of Arizona</p>
<p>Smith’s campus is stunning. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, the same landscape architect who designed Central Park in NYC, the U.S. Capitol Grounds, and the Emerald Necklace in Boston. </p>
<p>One fun fact, there are no straight paths in the original design (a few semi-straight ones have been added for some of the newer buildings), nor is any building accessible only by one path. Because of course, there is no single way or straight line to learning, it’s a journey with many possibilities (Thanks, Frederick Law Olmstead!)</p>
<p>It’s literally a breathtaking work of art, in every season. Though I like it best in the fall when the trees are glowing in reds and oranges and yellows.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about your D wanting a pretty campus…it seems to be a theme. Check out the threads on the parent’s forum about why kids won’t even look at schools or which schools kids cross off the list after visiting. The look and feel seems to be a BIG influencer. Kids. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music is one of the very best in the country, and it is a beautiful, classic campus in a charming college town.</p>
<p>Pretty campuses: In no particular order</p>
<p>Princeton
Williams
Colgate
Cornell
St. Olaf
Whitman
Grinnell
Carleton
Swarthmore</p>
<p>there are many others, these I am familiar with…</p>
<p>Wellesley’s campus was also designed by Olmstead. He got around.</p>
<p>Indiana U does have a great music school, and Rochester has Eastman. Both are good general universities.</p>
<p>BC is not the school I would choose in the Boston area. I am not a fan of Catholic schools or big time sports, though. If she’s looking for a classic college experience, there are many other choices for a person with a strong interest in music.</p>
<p>Tufts is developing a really good music program and I think it is a lovely campus. They have a spanking new music building they are very proud of.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, Santa Clara, Stanford and St. Mary’s Moraga are a model of beautiful mission architecture. Taco Bell, as well as many strip malls in the west the cheap imitation. Sad to think that style has been denegrated in the public mind. </p>
<p>No UW Madison on the list? My kids had a rough time thinking of any campus as beautiful, when the lakeside setting of UW Madison was their standard.</p>
<p>Beautiful campus+top ranked music school =Indiana University,Bloomington and yes they have snow. However, IU is much larger than BC and has a true college town vs. a major city like Boston.</p>
<p>I’m another vote for St. Olaf! Such a beautiful campus and wonderful school. Just returned from a short visit to my son and was struck, once again, with the beauty of the entire campus.</p>
<p>I want to point out that it did snow at least once on the beautiful campus of UC Santa Cruz. Circa 1978.
Enough to sled down the hill on cafeteria trays.</p>
<p>USC pretty? Obviously these people have never stepped on UCLA’s campus.</p>
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<p>But college students don’t do most of this. Most don’t have cars – or if they do have them, they don’t need to use them to get to class every day. The college (or the off-campus landlord) takes care of snow in the driveways. And college students can dress however they want. If they choose, they can wear waterproof coats, winter boots, and even waterproof ski pants, thus protecting themselves from ever getting wet. If they do get wet, they can come home in the middle of the day and change their clothes. And they don’t get up at 4:30 a.m.for any purpose. In fact, that’s when some of them go to bed.</p>
<p>Going to college in a snowy environment is actually not much of a problem. It’s living in such an environment after college that’s a pain.</p>
<p>We come from the Washington, DC, area, where it snows to a significant extent maybe four times a year, and on each occasion, practically everything (including the federal government) closes. My kids didn’t grow up with snow as an everyday reality. But my daughter goes to college in upstate New York, where snow is abundant. She doesn’t seem to regard it as a problem, though, because it doesn’t interfere with her life. She walks everywhere, and other people do the shoveling. I think she would change her tune, though, if she got a job in a similar area after graduation and had to deal with driving in snow, scraping it off her car, etc. on a regular basis.</p>