<p>I don’t like Pomona… I always get these images of pimentos ha
And all The City University of New York is just awkward…
And St. Olaf, Mount Olive, Sweet Briar… kind of funny</p>
<p>I like Tufts though! so cute : D</p>
<p>WORST:
Dickinson
Colgate
Purchase College(SUNY)
Rust</p>
<p>how about Walla Walla</p>
<p>Bad:
-All the SUNY: New Paltz, Canton, Purchase…where’s that?
-The schools with directions in the names (easily confused): Northwestern, Northeastern, Southwestern
-Weird ones/too long : Ursinus (reminds me of the planet), Case Western Reserve, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Good:
Short, succinct easy to remember names that sound prestigious: the ivies, the lacs: amherst, williams</p>
<p>Ivies and Good? Ha ha…</p>
<p>Dart MOUTH! Why is there a mouth in that name? </p>
<p>Brown?? WHAT? People will assume that it’s just a color. LOL</p>
<p>Best: The College of William and Mary
Worst: The New School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Colorado School of Mines.</p>
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<p>Really? Doesn’t Johns Hopkins roll off the tongue better than John Hopkins? At worst people think you’re saying “John’s Hopkins”, which raises the question: what is a hopkin? If anything the name is recognizable and a conversation starter: a win-win. </p>
<p>I think Penn has the best name because people naturally will ask “You mean Penn State?” if you say that you go to Penn. Then the Penn student gets to snidely admonish them by saying something like “No, I go to the University of Pennsylvania. Penn is in the Ivy League, Penn State is in the big 10”. Honestly I bet that getting to say that is >90% of the appeal of going to Penn and Penn students eagerly await people asking them if they go to Penn State.</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt, Bard, Trinity, Wooster, Juilliard, Emerson, Ithaca</p>
<p>Worst: Longwood, Assumption, Cornish, Pomona, Oglethorpe, Smith, Merrimack, Occidental, Pratt Institute (LOL.)</p>
<p>Rutgers. It sounds a lot like Rugrats.</p>
<p>Worst :
Ball State
Colgate
Furman
Harvey Mudd
Rutgers
Any of the SUNY schools</p>
<p>Best:
Notre Dame du Lac
Columbia
Emory
William & Mary</p>
<p>i can’t believe no one mentioned Kenyon.
well maybe i missed it.
but it sounds a lot like Kenyan.
People sometimes get confused.</p>
<p>Best: Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Middlebury, Oberlin, Williams, Cornell, Ithaca, Albion, </p>
<p>Worst: Colgate(white teeth), Marlboro(worst ever: like cigarettes), Kalamazoo( like a zoo), Rice( or potatoes?), Northeastern/western ect…(where i am going??? -Northeastern…), Brown, Duke (of hazzard)</p>
<p>Anyway, a school makes its name by its actions…</p>
<p>Worst: Colorado school of Mines, Wooster, Rensselaer PI, Bates, Butler, Rice, Howard (seriously?)
Best: Stanford, Princeton, Carleton, Caltech, Georgetown, Imperial College, Oxford.</p>
<p>If you slam Marlboro for sounding like cigarettes, Carlton should be too. And Imperial reminds me of margarine.</p>
<p>Rutgers sounds great when paired with its team name. Rutgers Scarlet Knights? YESSSsSSsSsS</p>
<p>Worst: Morehead State.</p>
<p>Worst: Austin Peay (pronounced “pee”)</p>
<p>Though I love their chant during athletic events: “Let’s go Peay!”</p>
<p>So if I repeat any, mea culpa.</p>
<p>Worst: Mount Ida
Philadelphia Textile
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Lamar University
CW Post
Yeshiva
Goldey Beacom
Mount Marty
Hannibal-Lagranne(sounds like Hannibal Lecter)
Milsaps(although it’s a good school)
Lambuth University
Paine College
Cazenovia</p>
<p>I could go on…</p>
<p>D’Youville College (though I hear it’s d’lightful and d’marvelous).</p>
<p>Don’t you think a college’s name is a very underrated part of its appeal and reputation? If Harvard had been named Woczynski University, I don’t think it would be as popular as it is.</p>
<p>Too bad the U of Toledo isn’t a Catholic college…Holy Toledo University.</p>
<p>I love this thread! I know I’m repeating most (if not all) of these, but I have to share them.</p>
<p>Worst: Gonzaga, Embry-Riddle (one letter away from being embryo), Colgate (toothpaste), Occidental (accidental), Hendrix (hippie/trippy sounding), University of Scranton (I hate the short “a” sound)</p>
<p>To anyone who said Dummer Academy, agreed! It’s Governor Dummer, but everyone in the ISL calls it Governor’s. Also, as for Nobles…at my school, which is Nobles’s rival, we sometimes call it no balls :)</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt, Yale, Princeton, Duke, Harvard…very typical, I know, but their names just sound so wonderful and rich and prestigious.</p>
<p>I personally have always thought “Oglethorpe University” (GA) sounded cool!</p>