<p>best: wesleyan, macalester, pomona, yale, and (my favorite) bennington
worst: colgate, carnegie mellon, suny new paltz, cornell college (its not THE cornell), rice, tufts</p>
<p>Best: Duke, Vanderbilt, Holy Cross(great name for a Catholic school) Wabash, Dartmouth. Worst: Brown, Tufts, Colgate, Northwestern(maybe in Seattle)</p>
<p>heh i agree that with the name Northwestern, a lot of people think we're a state school ... heh not even a good state school, but one of those weird unknowns.</p>
<p>Our hearts will ever yearn for the purple banner waving high for Northwestern!</p>
<p>Northwestern is generally not thought of quite so highly in New England because it's nomenclaturally associated with Northeastern, which is a far less distinguished school relative to other local institutions.</p>
<p>The same can be said for Columbia and the Chicago area...</p>
<p>Here are some of the more entertaining ones from my middle-of-nowhere state.</p>
<p>Cottey College (A little shack in the woods.)
Crowder College (The state of the dormitories..)
Ranken Technical College (Reminds me of odor)
Stephens College (An all girls college.. go figure)</p>
<p>i always thought Northwestern was in the pacific northwest till i did some more research on it</p>
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<p>I suspected such. We also suffer from UMissouri-Columbia, and the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Needless to say the contingent of southern and midwestern students here is conspicuously low...</p>
<p>A wonderful school, but the name is probably the single greatest factor keeping it from being as attractive as a Georgetown or ND. Many of my clients interested in similar LACs will not even entertain the idea of sending their non-Catholic child there, which is a shame really and I think 90% of it is the name. I also have to convince them that Trinity is actually not religious!</p>
<p>well New Englanders are ignorant buttholes then! hee.</p>
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<p>This made me think.... Does anyone ever call MIT, MassTech? That would be cute, like a massive amount of technology goes on at MIT. Well, I guess it would be too late now because it would be just copying Caltech.</p>
<p>Best: Princeton, Harvard, Stanford</p>
<p>Worst: Haverford. You can imagine that a typical conversation goes something like:</p>
<p>"Where did you go to school?"
"Haverford."
"Wow, Harvard? You must be smart!"
"Well, actually, it's Haver..."
"Hey, Jack, check out Jr. over here, he went to Hah-Vahd!"
"Oh really? So, a big time Ivy Leaguer huh? How did you like it up in good 'ole Cambridge?"
"You see, it's not actually Harv..."
"Don't be so modest, was it tough? Betcha you met a bunch of geniuses there huh?"
"...yeah, it was, uh, swell..."
"'Swell', huh? Jeez, you even sound like you went to Harvard!"</p>
<p>Holy Cross is more liberal than Notre Dame and its alumni network is very strong-alumni giving rate of 50%. Also HC has a top 20 LAC endowment.</p>
<p>Best: Yeshiva, Brandeis <em>Ken, ani yehudi Jewish Pride = Extreme bias</em>....Cornell is also a pretty cool name.
Worst: Kalamazoo, Waterloo, Villanova, Wooster, Wofford, Drew, Lewis & Clark, Eckerd (pharmacy), Oregon and Oregon State (hey, it's Oregon).</p>
<p>Occidental belongs on one of those lists, I honestly can't decide which one though.</p>
<p>Worst: Colgate, Occidental, Chico State, something that starts with G in California, UC Merced, Washington and Lee, Washington University in St. Louis (The whole "in St. Louis" bit ruins it), Baldwin-Wallace</p>
<p>Best: Harvard (just very posh sounding), Cambridge, Columbia, Princeton</p>
<p>College of Notre Dame of Maryland </p>
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<p>CONDOM</p>
<p>ps. i like haverford. i think that fictional discussion would be at a podunk denny's not at a top professional or grad school.</p>
<p>These past few months as my daughter had been researching/planning her visit to Ursinus and other schools, we were pronouncing it UR-sin-us which was ugly enough... she is out there visiting this week and discovered the name is pronounced ur-SIGH-nus, which is even uglier! ;-) We laughed about that. She liked the school a lot, regardless!</p>
<p>She didn't like Villanova at all, which I think has a pretty sound to it. ;-)</p>
<p>Ok I go to JHU so I think "Johns Hopkins" sounds very professional and refined -- you guys apparently have 0 taste. I also don't like 1 word U names, it sounds like I'm a first name basis with a waiter. Who the heck is "Stanford" just get me my beer.</p>
<p>Anyway chew on this:
From Mark Twain:
" A few months ago I was told that the Johns Hopkins University had given me a degree. I naturally supposed this constituted me a Member of the Faculty, and so I started in to help as I could there. I told them I believed they were perfectly competent to run a college as far as the higher branches of education are concerned, but what they needed was a little help here and there from a practical commercial man. I said the public is sensitive to little things, and they wouldn't have full confidence in a college that didn't know how to spell the name 'John'."</p>
<p>I started this thread over a year ago, thanks for keeping it up guys! :)</p>
<p>Best: THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA</p>
<p>Worst: THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA</p>