<p>Some colleges definitely have better sounding names than others. I do not mean name recognition, just simply how the name sounds. For example i you were to say "I graduated from (insert college's name)". </p>
<p>Worst: Rice, Tufts
Best: Vanderbilt, Yale</p>
<p>This may be silly but i just thought i would share, any other opinions are welcomed.</p>
<p>Lol I know many people dont like Brown--the name is peculiar. Does anyone know the history behind it?</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt(I am going there), Harvard, Yale, Duke, Emory
Worst: Villanova, Tufts</p>
<p>Worst: Ball State</p>
<p>i always thought Tufts and Yale sounded peculiar...
of course, Duke, Vanderbilt and Stanford are all kinda retarded, who names a university after themself? Actually, Stanford is double-retarded, as the actual name of the University is Leland Stanford Jr. University... leland knew it was dumb to name a university after himself, so he named it after his dead son, who, suprisingly, had the same last name. </p>
<p>so the best would go to Chicago, because rockafeller built it and wasnt troubled enough with his manhood to name it after himself. </p>
<p>Of course, my school, northwestern, is kind of a dumb name, since its not in the northwest anymore.... </p>
<p>worst goes to Johns Hopkins... whats with all the esses? (i know whats with them, i dont need to hear the story, but come on!)</p>
<p>Princeton is a pretty good name. </p>
<p>Colgate kind of sucks, now that it's associated with toothpaste.</p>
<p>Worst: Brown, Tufts, Northwestern, Ball State, Colgate, Purdue</p>
<p>Brown was named for a Mr. Brown. Beaver College recently changed their name to Arcadia.</p>
<p>The George Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Washington
Washington and Lee University</p>
<p>I duno...my opinion
Best names: UCLA, NYU..i duno..sounds cool
worst: I duno why but Colgate....</p>
<p>not to mention that tuft's mascot is a "jumbo", aka an elephant. a great school but "i'm a Tufts Jumbo" sounds a little funny</p>
<p>Best: Vanderbilt
Worst: Bob Jones</p>
<p>What UCLA, NYU??? Those are acronyms, they don't really count, but if they did Uva is def. the best!</p>
<p>Duke and Brown are terrible names.
Vanderbilt sounds ridiculously preppy as does Princeton.
Wharton just sounds funny.</p>
<p>hehe..i've never really thought about this...</p>
<p>Those names aren't acronyms (neither is HYPMS) because they don't spell another world.</p>
<p>i've always thought princeton was the coolest name</p>
<p>i also like dartmouth a lot (they both sound really cool)</p>
<p>Sounds cool: dartmouth
Bad:Gonzaga Adolphus, Harvey Mudd (Harvey?!), kalamazoo, kenyon.</p>
<p>Bad: Oral Roberts University :(</p>
<p>waterloo....</p>
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<p>LOL! Do you mean Gustavos Adolphus or Gonzaga U or both?</p>
<p>My vote for worst name, however, has to go to Shorter College...Makes me think of classrooms full of midgets every time I see it. :)</p>