Original sentence: As another example, the College of William and Mary, the oldest of "Public Ivies," has an ambiance similar to some of the older Ivy League universities.The red brick buildings and many colonnades of the campus are also similar to the campus of Dartmouth College.When creating his list, Moll looked at aesthetics as well as academics; for instance, the University of Virginia is America's only campus that is a World Heritage Site, and its brick ivy-covered buildings have a Jeffersonian look and feel with similar ambiance to similarly-sized Ivy League universities such as Columbia University and Cornell University
Edited sentence: The University of Virginia's brick buildings and white colonnades are reminiscent of Ivy League universities such as Columbia University and Dartmouth College, both of whom predated it.When creating his list, Moll looked at aesthetics as well as academics; for instance, as the oldest of the "Public Ivies," the College of William and Mary's red brick ivy-covered buildings echo the look and feel of some of the older Ivy League universities