<p>I think Goucher is an odd name.</p>
<p>Best: Princeton, Georgetown, University of Puget Sound, Willamette</p>
<p>Worst: Ursinus, Yale, Washington University in St. Louis, Bob Jones</p>
<p>For all of you hating on University of Puget Sound, when I think of it it always invokes the pristine beauty of the puget sound area... I guess I am just used to the name.</p>
<p>Thought some would enjoy this article about how some colleges are changing their names in order to rebrand themselves.
<a href="http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/ZNYT02/508110439%5B/url%5D">http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/ZNYT02/508110439</a></p>
<p>LOL, I still remember when Arcadia was Beaver College. I love Arcadia, I probably wouldn't apply if it was still Beaver College.</p>
<p>Also, I never understood why Cal State Hayward changed it's name to East Bay when it is one of three state schools in the east bay.</p>
<p>Worst: Colgate. Tufts. Dartmouth</p>
<p>.. i just.. can't stop thinking.. TOOTHPASTE.. whenever i see Colgate O_o</p>
<p>Best: I think Stanford sounds nice. And Yale. Claremont Mckenna.</p>
<p>I've always thought that Yale sounded pretty awkward. It rhymes with words like tale, nail, fail, and pail. dunno. maybe ppl are just used to it.</p>
<p>Best: Princeton, Stanford</p>
<p>Worst: Yale, Harvey Mud, Colgate (toothpaste?), "Wash you", Dartmouth, Tufts, Rice, Northwestern (more like north mid-western), Cornell...</p>
<p>By best or worst i assume we are only talking about good colleges, since no matter how good a bad school's name is, it is still a turnoff and still a bad name.</p>
<p>Best: Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Cornell, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt
Worst: Rice,Washington University in St. Louis, any school with the word "state" in it, University of Chicago, New York University, Case Western Reserve, Tufts and of course colgate.</p>
<p>worst:
immaculata, harvey mudd, wooster, dartmouth, johns hopkins (like someone said before, WAY too many S's)</p>
<p>best:
princeton, vassar, bryn mawr, wellesley</p>
<p>Assumption College.</p>
<p>Doubleyou tee eff.</p>
<p>Does anyone know why Northwestern University has a direction for a name?</p>
<p>Because it was founded to serve the Northwest Territories, which are now the Great Lakes states. (That was the northwestern extreme of the settled United States at the time.)</p>
<p>Best: NOTRE DAME !!!!!
I'm not going there but I love the French name</p>
<p>Worst: Bob Jones U</p>
<p>Worse: Washington University in St. Louis. Should change the name to something like Anheuser University.</p>
<p>Thanks Hanna, makes sense too. Wow, now i have a new found respect for Northwestern's name.</p>
<p>I can't believe nobody has mentioned Bowling Green State University yet. Skidmore is awful, as is Colgate. </p>
<p>At Vanderbilt they having a saying, "Vanderbilt: Even the name sounds expensive." LOL :) I think it is an awesome name, really rolls off the tongue. Same with Georgetown and Princeton.</p>
<p>I hate it when colleges aren't where their names say. Washington University in St. Louis (not in Washington), Miami University (in Ohio ***!), and Ohio Wesleyan is in a city called Delaware (in Ohio), but how confusing!</p>
<p>Oxford University sounds scholarly.</p>
<p>Worst: Bob Jones (BJ) University</p>
<p>Slippery Rock U. in PA. Honestly!!</p>
<p>Best: Emory, Elon, Amherst</p>
<p>Worst: College of Wooster (rooster??)</p>
<p>Worst: Any university called "[Insert State] University of [Insert Different State]"</p>
<p>ex. Miami University of Ohio</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh oops semiserious said that already</p>
<p>I guess "Harvard"'s pretty bad too. i mean, outside its name recognition, it sounds like "ardvark" with like a "harrrr harrr"</p>