<p>^^ And poop haha had to say it. Just kidding though. I also like that name. I think Wesleyan, Georgetown, Princeton, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Emory, are good names. UC Berkley is good as well because you can just say “Berkley” or “Cal.” I never like Washington University in St. Louis because it’s too confusing, and a mouth full. Also, Haverford? Too close to Harvard.</p>
<p>Transylvania University: best and worst</p>
<p>best: Holy Cross
Worst: Boston College (Not that well known outside New England, most people think of Boston University)</p>
<p>^^^Yeah some of those city schools have issues for state/local/private identity. NYU and U of Rochester come to mind.<br>
Actually for most people I’d guess BC is more well known than BU because of sports.</p>
<p>Best-Princeton. It’s like a school for royal people</p>
<p>Worst-Brown, Rice, Tuft… enough said</p>
<p>Obviously I love “Wake Forest.” 
Other than that, I really can’t think of any that I love off the top of my head that haven’t already been mentioned, but I have to agree of all the names that I dislike, I hate “Harvey Mudd.” I can’t say it or read it without thinking of the TV show “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.”</p>
<p>Best: Northwestern, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, UCLA, Berkeley, Emory.</p>
<p>Worst: Northeastern, Dartmouth (i think it’s pronounced stupidly), Upenn (sounds like a state school), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>When I was applying to colleges, my dad always made fun of Smith College’s name. He kept saying that it was a boring name for a college.</p>
<p>'Ruin, UCLA as one of the best names? Gee, you could likely list most acronyms.</p>
<p>I agree that Smith is a very boring name for a school. Williams too.</p>
<p>Best: Columbia, Berkeley, USC, NYU</p>
<p>Worst: Ball State, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>I like Aurora University and Drexel University.</p>
<p>Worst: Slippery Rock and Harvey Mudd College. No offense to anyone.</p>
<p>Colgate reminds me of the toothpaste, but I would not classify as one of worst.</p>
<p>Ball State does have the best slogans as a result of their name: I would rather Ball U than I U.</p>
<p>Worst: Glenn Beck University</p>
<p>P.S. It’s not a real university</p>
<p>Worst: Skidmore…skidmarks…</p>
<p>Liberty U Flames:</p>
<p>Definition of irony: A school that regulates what movies, music, dating partner youre allowed to have and is virulently anti-Gay. Liberty…Flames…you just couldnt make this stuff up.</p>
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<p>Could be that most people out of the area are not aware that BC and BU are two different schools.</p>
<p>There were at least three schools that had acronyms of “USC”, but one of them changed its name so that its acronym is no longer “USC”.</p>
<p>^ University of Southern California, University of South Carolina, and … what is/was the third?</p>
<p>University of Santa Clara, which changed its name to Santa Clara University to avoid being confused with the other “USC” schools (primarily University of Southern California).</p>