Colleges with best/worst names

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<p>Yeah it is^</p>

1002

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<p>Well, “Brand Eis” is German for “Fire and Ice”, which pretty much makes it the most bad-ass college name there is. :)</p>

1003

<p>Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute… (I probably didn’t even spell it right)</p>

1004

<p>Stanford sounds so cool to say. :D</p>

1005

<p>Best- USC (not the acronym), Vanderbilt, Villanova, Duke. There are others but i cant think of them right now.</p>

<p>Worst- Wabash, Worcester polytechic (if you know how to pronounce worcester you will know why) Colgate, American University (so lame and unoriginal), Johns Hopkins (to annoying to pronouce)</p>

1006

<p>Dude - Tufts Jumbo sounds hellla awesome
Come on guys an elephant is like the best mascot ever, well aside from the trojan and phoenix, which are also badass.</p>

<p>And yeah the worst: Ball State</p>

<p>“Yo guys I love BALLS!!!..tate”</p>

1007

<p>Indiana University of Pennsylvania. </p>

<p>Like, seriously?</p>

1008

<p>^Oh ****, silverturtle has some competition haha</p>

1009

<p>^ Yeah, I don’t know who that is. :)</p>

1010

<p>^It’s sort of creepy actually haha</p>

1011

<p>California University of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>[Homepage</a> : CAL U - California University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“PennWest California | PennWest California”>PennWest California | PennWest California)</p>

<p>yipee, I win for the strangest name</p>

1012

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^^ Well, if you don’t count the fact that Calif U of Pa has been mentioned 12 times already in this thread, as far back as post # 40 :rolleyes:</p>

1013

<p>^ Then it’s a tie, and they are all winners.</p>

1014

<p>Tied with Miami of Ohio??</p>

1015

<p>Always wanted to walk into the house announcing where I was going to college, wearing this t-shirt <a href=“http://tisbookbsu.com/MerchDetail.aspx?MerchID=809753[/url]”>http://tisbookbsu.com/MerchDetail.aspx?MerchID=809753&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>but was afraid it’d give my parents a coronary. Slippery Rock State was another prime choice, as was Gustavus Adolphus College. What a mouthful.</p>

1016

<p>whenever i hear/see Tufts, I always imagine their quad covered with tufts of grass or some images of golf players hitting the ball and managing to get a tuft of grass up in the air also</p>

1017

<p>wabash, walla walla, and kalamazoo are pretty bad…
princeton, USC, and dartmouth sound nice</p>

1018

<p>I always liked the name Bard, even though my tour didn’t work out so well there… it suits the school well (i always remember the literary term because of it!) . Not to mention it has a nice ring to it. The name Macalester is kind of sweet. </p>

<p>Bad names~ Kalamazoo (although it’s such a nice school I have a hard time making fun of it). And of course I have to rip on Ball State, even though it’s been knocked down so many times…</p>

<p>the name Earlham just sounds funny, not really bad or good. But same as above, I feel bad making fun of it because I had a good experience touring there…</p>

<p>Edit: wow, everyone thinks the name “Bard” is bad except for me?</p>

1019

<p>best sounding: Cambridge, Princeton, Villanova, Georgetown, Duke (I like waspy sounding names)
worst sounding: WUSTL, Bowdoin, USC (boring), Grinnell(smile!),</p>

1020

<p>I agree that the name WUSTL is kinda weird. But I dont think people call it WUSTL. They usually go by Washington University, WashU, or the whole name which is…Washington University in St. Louis. I know it’s long, but it’s still shorter than some schools’ such as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p>

<p>Anyway, I like Imperial College and Stanford.</p>