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<p>As far as grounds, not so much buildings, I loved Drew and Stonehill because I like the woods and the more “natural” look, not manicured.</p>

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<p>SUNY Geneseo is a small “pretty” highly competitive public LAC in New York.</p>

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<p>Miami U (Oxford, OH) is very pretty and one of the oldest in nation, just celebrted 200 years. Large public school. Amazing new building for Business school. D. is Muisc Minor, was thingking about performance, had to give up because of demanding major, so she is Music Composition. Absolutely loves her music classes (very relaxing for her). Very challenging academics, a lot of opportunities for high caliber students. College suits are luxury accomodations for upper classmen. D graduated #1 in her class from small private school.</p>

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<p>Mathmom,
I too love the Caltech campus. Now S ready for bigger, eg Stanford. Reading your comments makes me curious what Stanford looks like.</p>

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<p>CollegeDadx3 – yes, Swarthmore is beautiful, I used to live not far so would study in the library, walk the grounds – lovely stone architecture.</p>

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<p>As cheesy as the famous play on words is, Cornell is one of the most beautiful campuses I’ve been to. And over my time there, I explored the local waterfalls, wineries and Finger Lakes… absolutely breathtaking no matter the season. Even on the grayest days, you could always find something visually appealing/stimulating in the campus’ scenery.</p>

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<p>MIT campus along the charles river in Cambridge, MA is very pretty and romantic.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.ics.uci.edu/~csp/uai2006/images/mit-campus-view.png[/url]”>http://www.ics.uci.edu/~csp/uai2006/images/mit-campus-view.png&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>View from the dorms along the river and the Boston skyline is magnificent. The campus also provide glimpses of diverse architectural styles not visible anywhere else. </p>

<p>[MIT</a> Campus June 2004 – Pictures](<a href=“http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~tgormley/pictures/mit/index.htm]MIT”>http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~tgormley/pictures/mit/index.htm)</p>

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<p>Well the view of the Charles from Harvard isn’t bad. If you scroll down seven pictures you’ll see Dunster House where I lived. I only had a river view one year out though. [Google</a> Image Result for <a href=“http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/photos/dunster_house2.jpg[/url]”>http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/photos/dunster_house2.jpg](<a href=“http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/photos/dunster_house2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/boston.html&usg=__G32B7AGwOiNSIjdMxIm75IUYGxg=&h=930&w=600&sz=432&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=LRSAGGgGhjJCOM:&tbnh=147&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddunster%2Bhouse%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1]Google”>http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/photos/dunster_house2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~nwright/boston.html&usg=__G32B7AGwOiNSIjdMxIm75IUYGxg=&h=930&w=600&sz=432&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=LRSAGGgGhjJCOM:&tbnh=147&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddunster%2Bhouse%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1)</a></p>

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<p>mathmom: I love the Harvard Square and so do DD. There is no better place to hang out on a Friday night. Cambridge in itself is very romantic and best college town in US. The greater Boston area house more than 100,000 students. So I don’t think there is any better place to go to college in USA than that.</p>

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<p>mathmom: The view of the Charles with buildings reflected in it is breathtaking. I can imagine your architect’s mind at work. It’s really beautiful.</p>

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<p>[Full</a> Window View](<a href=“http://www.parallelgraphics.com/full/products/showroom/virtual-tours/stanford]Full”>Showroom - ParallelGraphics)
will put you on the main quad of Stanford in moving-3D (if you don’t mind the ActiveX control). </p>

<p>Otherwise there are stills here: [Stanford</a> University - Main Quad and Memorial Chapel Pictures - California stock photos, fine art prints by QTL](<a href=“QT Luong's place-based photography archive”>Stanford University - Memorial Chapel Pictures - California stock photos, fine art prints by QTL)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the Stanford views Seems so big…</p>

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<p>My California coast girl just applied to IU-B. Her only application so far.</p>

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<p>Pepperdine would not be my daughter’s choice for “pretty campus”. We live near the beach on the central coast of CA, so this isn’t the look she’s after. Her idea of a beautiful college campus is the traditional, ivy covered brick walls and older buildings surrounded by acres of green grass and mature trees. Not too many of those in California! I will say that the closest we’ve come is University of the Pacific. Gorgeous setting with all of the above I described…except for the type of college town/city that often goes along with the type of campus.</p>

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<p>I have to say, re Stanford pictures – that view of Memorial Church and the main entrance to the old Quad, with the foothills behind them, IS stunning . . . and you have to make a special trip to see it, because nothing in the life of anyone connected with Stanford will ever put them in that spot. It’s the formal entrance to the University, but it has no parking, and so it is unused, and there is nearly half a mile of eucalyptus trees between there and the nearest actual road. The farthest one would ever go in that direction from a dorm would be the back door of the building in those pictures.</p>

<p>The “real” campus is a bunch of modern buildings in mission-style colors, with mission-style elements.</p>

<p>Of course, you may have to stand in the middle of the Charles to get exactly that view of Dunster House mathmom linked, too, but you DO get to see it, really, when you go in.</p>

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<p>Georgetown, Tufts, and Brown?</p>

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<p>Sorry Dadx3–I have to disagree about Colgate vs. Hamilton. When my family visited Hamilton, we found that there was an attractive side and a “dark” (all of my families feelings) side. The dark side is the former women’s school. It was depressing.</p>

<p>Colgate is beautiful w/o different sides. It is often ranked one of the top 10 most beautiful colleges.</p>

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<p>MIT? MIT is not usually on most people’s campus beauty lists including mine. The building shown in the link is nice and the Stata building is freaky, but the majority of the campus could pass for any nondescript state U. The beauty at MIT is what goes on <em>inside</em> the buildings.</p>

<p>The way I sum up the high-end schools’ archtecture is this:</p>

<p>Stanford is imitation adobe; Yale is stone; Harvard is brick; and MIT is concrete.</p>

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<p>And Princeton is lighter stone.</p>

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<p>MorrisM, I completely agree about Colgate v. Hamilton–actually Princeton Review named Colgate #1 prettiest campus this year.</p>