<p>I think that I am going to petition Bob Jones U to remove my name from thier "university".</p>
<p>I am ashamed.</p>
<p>I always liked the name, Colgate. It sounded like it had a lot of old-line northeastern tradition to me. Maybe, since I always used Crest, I never associated it with toothpaste. Other favorites are Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Bucknell. I've always liked the two syllable names the best.</p>
<p>Worst: Yale (because people in Southern Texas who actually have the exact opposite of what most people consider a "Texas accent" say Yell.)</p>
<p>-Where do you want to go to college?
--Yale.
-Are you that hard of hearing?</p>
<p>Also, I love SMU, but they have a building called the "Dedman Life Sciences Building." </p>
<p>Best: Duke, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, Marquette, Richmond, Washington & Lee</p>
<p>You mean Gustavus Adolphus...come on people the man was a king give him some credit.</p>
<p>Best: Oberlin, Dartmouth, Vassar, Carleton
Worst: Case Western, Harvey Mudd, Muhlenburg, Occidental, Simon's Rock College of Bard, Walla Walla</p>
<p>Best: Vassar, Yale, Harvard, Williams, Colby, Duke, Vanderbilt, Brown
Worst: Bowdoin, Amherst, Colgate, Willamette, Bucknell, Drexel (definitely the worst for last)</p>
<p>I love names that are phonetically easy to pronounce and that would look good on a sweatshirt...I also just hate how the name Bowdoin looks, but I love the school.</p>
<p>I don't really see any difference between the best and worst lists. I certainly like the name Amherst before Vassar or Colby.</p>
<p>People mispronounce Amherst all the time...that is why the name bothers me. I like names that are easy. I love Amherst as a school, though.</p>
<p>It's funny that there are only 428 posts in this thread, but 31,000 views....</p>
<p>As to Vassar, what is attractive in the name? The "ahhhhh," the syballance (a sound I dislike), the "er" at the end? What's there to like?</p>
<p>there's a college called slippery something university in pennsylvania...i'd say that takes the cake.</p>
<p>brand_182: Slippery Rock University.</p>
<p>that's the one lol</p>
<p>Ha...they announce the "Slippery Rock" score at all of the UT football games. They are obsessed with that name.</p>
<p>BEST: THE FU!! FUUUUUU (Columbia engineering)</p>
<p>bowdoin
case western reserve
tufts
yale
harvey mudd
pitzer</p>
<p>to name a few</p>
<p>don't know if it's been mentioned but i'd like to add:</p>
<p>Wayne State University</p>
<p>best name: villanova</p>
<p>it means "new home"</p>
<p>Kalamazoo and College of the Ozarks are ones I like</p>
<p>really when i first read kalamazoo i was discouraged to even check it out...haha...something a/b having zoo in the name</p>
<p>but that shows my immaturity, and i'm not ashamed of it. Just like Duke's b-school, Fuqua. I don't know if I could handle it.</p>
<p>"What school are you going to?"<br>
"Fuqua"</p>