<p>I think Yale sounds like a little taste of heaven :)</p>
<p>I also like Princeton… and the name Dartmouth. Browns cool too. </p>
<p>I think WUSTL (when the abbrheviation is promounced “wustull”) sounds terrible… along with rice, colgate, and swarthmore. Also Tufts is like a tuft of hair!
I don’t like the name Harvard either… especially when its pronounced “Hahhhvaad.”</p>
<p>Bowdoin is pronounced “Bow-din” (bow as in low).</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is my least favorite name for a college. Say what? I also don’t get California University in Pennsylvania or Miami University in Ohio.</p>
<p>I personally love Duke and Princeton (as in names)</p>
<p>Then although I love Brown, I hate the name.</p>
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<p>Well I’ll explain it again: There is a town here in PA called ‘California’, and MU is named after the Miami Indian tribe.</p>
<p>BEST: Wesleyan (cool to say), Brown (because it’s a color!), Dartmouth (even though it has the word mouth in it…), Yale (because it sounds all fancy)</p>
<p>WORST: Kenyon (what…Kenyan? Huh?), anything with Washington in it (they all get confused), Bard (sounds fat…don’t know why…), Harvey Mudd (mud?), Princeton (even SOUNDS preppy), Colgate (toothpaste)</p>
<p>Lets rank the Ivy’s by name:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Princeton (it just sounds so kingly and prestigious)</p></li>
<li><p>Harvard (has a very strong, confident, elite ring to it)</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia (sounds pretty and prestine)</p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth (sounds like an elite European-ish school)</p></li>
<li><p>Yale (to short to be considered a good name)</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell (sounds elitish but has the word ‘corn’ in it, lowering its status)</p></li>
<li><p>Brown (dude, thats a color)</p></li>
<li><p>University of Pennslyvania (“wait, I thought you went to a private school” haha)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Worst:
The College Of New Jersey, not the name so much as the abbreviation. TCNJ You can’t use The in an abbreviation, seriously.
The New College Of Florida…what happened to the old one?
Bob Jones University…sounds like classes are held in the back of some garage or in Bob’s mom’s basement.
Ball State…Do I really have to say it?
Salve Regina…I’ve had the name long enough to know what it can sound like if said the wrong way.
Gustavus Adolphus…You should not have to speak so slowly to keep a college name from sounding like a jumbled mess
Oglethorpe…How do you take that seriously?
Purdue, Colgate, Regis- If I wanted chicken, toothpaste, or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I could stay home.
Washington University in St. Louis…There shouldn’t be an ‘in’.
I also add any school named for a state or city it’s nowhere near.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt (oh wow, you drive a Vanderbilt? Sounds like a rolls royce car)
Georgetown (sounds like Jamestown, historically linked with first, old, and royalty)
Princeton (after living next to Hahvahd all my life, Princeton doesn’t sound all that cool and powerful. Rolls off the tongue easily)
MIT = (sounds official and geeky )
Johns Hopkins (extra ‘S’s are confusing at first lol, multiple ownerships, Johns’ plural? or John’s?)</p>
<p>Swarthmore looks like Swatsmore or looks like lots of warts. It sounds really nice if someone properly pronounces correctly.
Ursinus (LOLOL, reminds me of a constellation or a bear with sinus (i think someone else had said this)</p>
<p>Coca Cola University, sounds prestigious enough, anything associated with Coca Cola must be good. </p>
<p>Proactiv university. Ppl there must have clear beautiful skin!</p>
<p>wow, ginab…i seriously went down your list and commentary, and could not stop cracking up at each comment. are you a comedian?</p>
<p>No. I just have too much time on my hands.</p>
<p>DICKINSON… sound it out.
And of course Skidmore.
I am, however, partial to saying Vassar rather loudly and aggressively.</p>
<p>This thread is effin funny</p>
<p>Best-Princeton(it sounds royal)
Worst-Colgate(toothpaste,nuff said)</p>
<p>Someone mentioned Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College… it sounds like Mary was some kind of hermit. </p>
<p>I dislike Shimer College. Shimer –> shiny –> oooooh! Shiny!</p>
<p>worst- Colgate, Kettering, New College of Florida, Rice, Baylor, Brown, Pitt</p>
<p>best- Yale, Vanderbilt, U-Dub (Washington)</p>
<p>Slippery Rock University (wut?)</p>
<p>My brothers keep on asking me why I want to go to “Cantaloupe Mellon” 
(That’s CMU if you couldn’t tell 
)</p>
<p>Bob Jones University</p>
<p>Bob Jones? Why not Jim Bob or something equally horrendous?</p>
<p>I don’t know why Colleges that Change Lives has so many weird names. But here we go:</p>
<p>College of Wooster
Goucher College
Reed College (seriously–I think of swamp plants when I hear that)
Lynchburg College
Kalamazoo College–kind of awesome, but also really, really weird
Hiram College–here I am!
Wabash College
The New College of Florida
Juniata
Centre College</p>
<p>Some of the others are kind of weird too…</p>
<p>omg i LOLed pretty loudly when i read this thread…a couple of pages at least.</p>