@coolweather There’s also a University College Oxford. But just to make things more interesting, colleges are generally not universities in Britain. Except for University College London, Kings College London, University College Oxford etc.
And of course British public schools are actually posh private schools…
Slightly off topic, but wife never understood how they do acronyms for schools in Colorado.
University of Colorado - Boulder is CU.
University of Denver is DU.
Dickinson, Denison, Davidson 
@STEM2017 - There’s actually a thread for the “huh” response…actually two threads:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/926354-just-smile-and-nod-smile-and-nod-p1.html
@ClaremontMom So many threads, so little time.
Yes, Embry-Riddle is a school I had not heard until the last decade or so and still struggle with the name. I know a woman whose S graduated from there, couldn’t find a job, went to law school and now has a job that allows him to use his law & aviation background, I believe.
Saint Vincent College (Latrobe, PA)
College of Mount Saint Vincent (Bronx, NY)
Saint John’s College (Annapolis, MD)
Saint John’s University (Queens, NY)
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University (St. Joseph, Minnesota and Collegeville, Minnesota)
Pacific University vs. University of the Pacific vs. Pacific College. There are also Seattle Pacific and Pacific Lutheran.
Whitman vs. Whitworth here in WA. I have visited both and still get confused.
I have no idea how to pronounce Albion.
@Magnetron, it’s AL-bee-un (AL like the man’s name).
My daughter was looking at Washington College, Chestertown, MD.
I can assume students deal with this:
Washington? Go Huskies!
No, not that school.
Oh Washington State? Go Cougs!
No, not that one.
Oh, the one in St. Louis? That’s an excellent school!
No, not that one…
^I went there for two years. Yup.
SUNY Buffalo vs. SUNY Buffalo State.
Some parents get lost trying to visit two next-door neighbors in NY State - Hamilton College in Clinton, and Colgate University in Hamilton.
My dad could not remember where I went to college…he confused George Mason and James Madison all the time. He ended up blending them and wrote a tuition check to George Madison.
My son goes to university of Rochester. Around here they ask us if that’s RIT.
U Rochester and RIT (and RPI) all get mixed up here too. Haven’t heard anyone think any of them are in MN though. Perhaps it’s because we’re closer to NY.
@eyemamom #133—I actually saw something in our local newspaper (in Alaska) the other day talking about a student who had applied to “James Mason University”, so…
^and RIT is private but the University of Rochester is a state school (not)…
dfdbfb,
Is the student studying to be a butler?
RE: #93 - Which is why more and more of us faculty and students are using “Illinois Tech”
I just confused St. Olaf’s with Olin. Plus I think there might be more than one of those?