<p>Best: Dharma Rhealm, Saint Lawrence U, U of San Francisco</p>
<p>Worst, unless your major is Bible Studies: Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA)</p>
<p>Worst sounding: Bucknell</p>
<p>Redundant: Chapman</p>
<p>What happens when one hits puberty: Tufts</p>
<p>Bumping this because it’s funny.</p>
<p>Oral Roberts University… that’s just unfortunate.</p>
<p>I also think that Colorado College and Connecticut College are bad names. Occidental is easy to make fun of (“oh, is that a dental school?” or “did you discover it occidentally?!”).</p>
<p>Denison makes me think of venison…</p>
<p>I like Oberlin and Macalester though.</p>
<p>I think Ball State is the worst.</p>
<p>What do you guys think of the names Cal Poly or Cal Poly Pomona?</p>
<p>Misericordia University is definitely one of the worst ones.
I got an e-mail from them once, and I just laughed.
The two parts of the words just don’t have a positive connotation…
Miseri==> That sounds like misery. That means you will be miserable if you go to this school.
cordia==> “Cord” is a part of the word “discord”. This means you will be in constant disagreement with everyone who goes to the school.</p>
<p>Overall, I can’t see ANYONE saying, “Yeah, I’m applying to Misericordia this fall.”
The school may be nice, but the name never allowed me to dwell that far into it. I would never consider going somewhere with a name that predicts a horrible college experience.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo College makes me smile, but I don’t think I’d go there because its name is a little too unprofessional.</p>
<h2>Worst</h2>
<p>Bryn Mawr (sounds like “rawr”)
Emory (sounds like an Asian trying to say “Emily”)
Occidental (Accidental)</p>
<h2>Best</h2>
<p>Princeton
Duke</p>
<p>Among the Tier-1 & 2 schools, hands down to Rice and Colgate. These are the only schools that were excluded from the list SOLELY because of the names. Go ahead and brand me a freak, but I don’t plan on going to grad school yet and I don’t want my alma mater to sound like some food or toothpaste.</p>
<p>Worst:
Gettysburg College
Point Loma Nazarene University (Where do I even start?)
Canisius College (Too many c’s and s’s)
Vanderbilt
Occidental
Wooster
Azusa Pacifc (the z and s make it too difficult to pronounce!)
Morehouse (Kinda reminds me of some other sort of house that rhymes with more)
Tufts (I think that’s a dog show over here… or something like that)
Any of the SUNY colleges
Southern Methodist University
Northeastern (sounds like a knock off of Northwestern)
Barnard
McGill University
Loyola University
University of Colorado, Boulder (As in a giant rock?)
Rutgers (reminds me of a noise you make before you vomit)
Babson
Lipscomb University
Anything that has Saint or ST in it (just sounds too biblical to me)
College of the holy cross
Hofstra University (Where do they think of these names?)</p>
<p>Good:
University of Cincinnati (Love the way it rolls off your tongue)</p>
<p>Auburn
Yale
Bentley
Emerson College</p>
<p>Good names: Yale, Vanderbilt, Rhodes, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (I don’t know, I just like it!), Northwestern</p>
<p>Bad names: Wake Forest, Furman, Harvey Mudd, Washington University in St.Louis (even though I love that school!), Cornell College (people getting it confused with College University would annoy me too much to go there)</p>
<p>Oh, and Our Lady of the Lake University is also a funny name xD. I always get mail from them, and I just can’t imagine anybody telling others that they are applying to “Lady of the Lake”</p>
<p>Villanova, Duke, Vanderbilt are some of the coolest.</p>
<p>One of the worst but it makes me laugh: University of the Incarnate Word.</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt, Pepperdine
Worst: Swarthmore, Friends University, Grinnell, Bryn Mawr</p>
<p>^I like Bryn Mawr, personally. I don’t really like the name Wooster…</p>
<p>Best: Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Villanova, Georgetown, Dartmouth, Sewanee, Radcliffe (doesn’t exist anymore, but still), Wesleyan, Auburn</p>
<p>Worst: Clemson, Stetson, Miami University in Ohio (misleading), Washington University in St. Louis (mouthful), Rutgers, Loyola, Wellesley, Sarah Lawrence, Ball State</p>
<p>Miami University in Ohio is an excellent name and it’s older than the city of the same name in Florida by 150 years.</p>
<p>Best: Occidental (Makes me want to fix the spelling every time)
Worst of all time: Longwood U</p>
<p>Someone mentioned that Kenyon was a bad name a few pages back. Well, I don’t disagree, and I think it confuses a lot of people; there is a shirt in the Kenyon bookstore that says “Kenyon is not near Uganda.” Yes, I’m serious.</p>
<p>Worst: Northeastern State U. I’ve never seen that state on a map. :rolleyes: At least it’s actually in the Northeast, I mean Oklahoma counts, right? </p>
<p><a href=“Northeastern State University”>http://www.nsuok.edu/</a></p>
<p>Nice school names:
Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Wharton, Duke, Caltech, MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, Rhodes</p>
<p>Not nice names:
Brown, Colgate, Rutgers, Emory, Ball State, Skidmore, Rice</p>
<p>@unicameral2013 hahah! Oklahoma has a blatant disregard to schools outside of the state. Who cares about misleading name to them lol. I don’t know how many times I’ve been searching for schools and ended up with poorly named Oklahoma equivalents lol</p>
<p>Best: Harvard, Duke, Yale, Williams, Wharton, Vassar, Vanderbuilt, Emory, Princeton, Notre Dame, Kenyon, oberlin, Georgetown, Brown</p>
<p>Worst: Colgate, St. Olaf, Carnagie Mellion, WUSTL, Macalaster, wake forest, carleton, harvy mudd, byrn Marr, Scripps, Pomona, Purdue, Claremont Mckenna, tufts, skidmore, rutgers, Susquehanna </p>
<p>Almost all based on my preference on sounds</p>