<p>Most Likely to Get a “Wow” at cocktail party
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
MIT
CalTech</p>
<p>Most Recognizable Names by Males At Cocktail Party
USC
UCLA
Notre Dame
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Duke
Florida</p>
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<p>lol yes i actually do like the names…including brown, dartmouth, and penn.</p>
<p>actually a little less when fully spelt out as “University of Pennsylvania”, but “penn” by itself is one of my favorites. I think of a wise admissions officer in a suit with a fancy thousand dollar pen!</p>
<p>brown reminds me of briefcases. exotic leather briefcases.</p>
<p>dartmouth sounds very preppy which i like :3</p>
<p>Schools attended by the producers of the movie “Bob, Ted, Carol and Alice”:</p>
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<li><p>Hobart and William Smith College</p></li>
<li><p>The College of William and Mary University</p></li>
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<p>Most Recognizable Names by Males in the Early Stages of a Cocktail Party:
USC
UCLA
Notre Dame
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Duke
Florida</p>
<p>Most Recognizable Names by Males in the Later Stages of a Cocktail Party:</p>
<p>Morehead State
Salve Regina
Carnegie Mellon
Agnes Scott
Ball State</p>
<p>“Duke (For some reason it has a leadership royal feel to the name)”</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s a real mystery why anybody would think of royalty with a name like Duke. Not anywhere near as mysterious as why someone would think of a color when they hear “Brown,” but still pretty mind-boggling.</p>
<p>how a poor kid describes the education of his parents if they went to the schools below</p>
<p>“Hi, my father and mother gradauted from William and Mary and Hobart and William Smith College”</p>
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<p>LOL (as a W&M alum)</p>
<p>Never liked Valparaiso, St. Bonaventure, or Valdosta State much. They all sound kinda biting (probably has to do with the “V”).</p>
<p>I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned St. Olafs</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt, Princeton, Brandeis</p>
<p>Worst: Golden Gate (sounds like some chinese takeaway place), Purdue</p>
<p>oh and Dartmouth…it has the word ‘mouth’ in it. I can’t get over that</p>
<p>Worst: Wartburg College in Iowa</p>
<p>College Of Notre Dame Of Maryland</p>
<p>Good names: Appalachian State (sounds… hardcore), Duke (officious and curt… nice), Grinnell (unusual name, kind of funny sounding), and Bowdoin (if an uninitiated person heard Bowdoin pronounced and then read the word “Bowdoin” on paper, they probably wouldn’t make a connection between the two… it’s not really phonetic).</p>
<p>Bad names: Mississippi Valley State (yikes), Williams (a pedestrian and boring nanme for such an outstanding school), University of Pennsylvania (oh, you go to a state school?) and Colgate (you’re gonna be a dentist?)</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania sounds like a great school that isn’t trying to be pretentious.</p>
<p>What’s so nice about Brandeis?</p>
<p>Yeah, Colgate has toothpaste implications, but it still sounds clean and classy…it’s not like it’s the University of Prell, Ipana Tech, Brylcream A and M, College of Dr. Scholls, Barbasol Institute, Cruex University, or Preparation H A&M.</p>
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<p>I would say that Furman University is worse in that regard</p>
<p>Or Finlandia University.</p>
<p>Also, doesn’t colgate mean “go hang yourself” in spanish?</p>
<p>“Cuelgate” is “go hang yourself” in Spanish…just asked wife (wife is from Castile and taught English and Spanish there, so I’m guessing she knows).</p>
<p>^ Indeed. “Colgar” signifies “to hang” while the “te” implies “you.”</p>
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