<p>bad ones: Ball State, SUNY (sunny? lame), Swarthmore, Malacaster, Assumption College (a college based on assumptions, illogical). </p>
<p>good ones: Dartmouth (Intelligent sounding, but yet mysterious too) Amherst (english sounding, especially sense it's called Am'erst), UPS (University of Puget Sound), Princeton (royal sounding)</p>
<p>Speaking of Dartmouth, does anyone know where the name came from. It's in a town called Hanover and was founded by a guy named Wheelock. ***???</p>
<p>Dart-mouth??</p>
<p>I believe it was named for an Earl of Dartmouth (in England) for his contribution toward the fledgling school.</p>
<p>Much as I love Tufts, I think the name sounds kind of silly. Same for Johns Hopkins, Bucknell, Grinell, and most other schools ending in "ell" except for Cornell, which for some reason I think sounds cool.</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines</p>
<p>skidmore and colgate</p>
<p>Sweet Briar College has this mysterious ring to it for some reason.. to me, at least. But then you find out it's a southern all girls school with a pink website, and the ring suddenly sounds more like that of an easy bake oven.</p>
<p>i dont know.... my friend and i were talking about University of Florida.... we call it UF down here... and he accidentally switched the two letters..... it just slipped..
But the university itself is kinda cool</p>
<p>Colgate wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't a toothpaste with the same name:-/</p>
<p>Bob Jones University... BJU? ech</p>
<p>Worst: Colgate, Johns Hopkins, SUNY New Paltz
I'm debating whether or not to apply to Johns Hopkins. I hate the name so much. Obviously that isn't the factor to make up my mind... but still... sfhdsjfh</p>
<p>Best: like so many said, Princeton</p>
<p>Worst: DePau*w*. Somehow that "w" at the end is just plain wrong.
Rice (food), Colgate (toothpaste) and Brown (ingredient for gravy) are also pretty bad. And McMaster (master of a well-known fast food chain?).</p>
<p>Best: (la) Sorbonne. Because it rhymes with "certes on ne se fait pas putain comme on s'fait nonne"...</p>
<p>Worst: Kalamazoo
Best: Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, Stanford</p>
<p>When I was going through college applications my mom kept bugging me to apply to Skidmore because she thought it might be a good fit for me, but I refused and told her I wasn't going to apply to Skidmarks College. And I never did.</p>
<p>Worst: Bob Jones University (BJU)</p>
<p>Worst:
University of Bologna (meat slices, but the university has an exceptional law school)
Teikyo Post University (in America but should be somewhere on Hokkaido)
Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University (most of the student body is from Japan)
Technical University of Darmstadt (the town name translates from German as "City of Pig Intestines")
Inner Mongolia College of Farming and Animal Husbandry...enough said
Best:
Princeton University (sounds royal)
Cambridge University (as above, although some individual colleges are not as nice-sounding)
Tsinghua University (something like 'distinct beauty' in Chinese)
Soka University (reminds me of 'soul of calypso' music of Trinidad)</p>
<p>best: Columbia University, Harvard University, Swarthmore (said with a English accent so "SWATH-MORE", and New York University (<---- go us!), and Julliard</p>
<p>worst: marlborough or whatever, colgate, pomona, scripps, villanova, school of visual arts, pratt institute, pepperdine, dartmouth, lehigh, yeshiva, wake forest, georgetown, mount holyoke, smith</p>
<p>I always thought Villanova had a nice taste on the toungue. Pepperdine, too. </p>
<p>Teikyo IS confusing.</p>
<p>MIT sounds like a super hard school to me..............</p>
<p>Haha, aren't you going there? </p>
<p>IDK I never liked MIT, I thought Caltech sounds better</p>
<p>Of course Duke has the best name! Go Blue Devils!</p>
<p>BTW, Teikyo Post was the result of a merger between the two schools so that Post could have a more global outlook. These are now fully separate schools because Teikyo Group transferred Post's ownership to a different company.
<a href="http://www.post.edu/history.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.post.edu/history.shtml</a> (former Teikyo Post U)
<a href="http://www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/%5B/url%5D">http://www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/</a> (the actual Teikyo U in Japan (site is in Japanese))</p>