Colleges with best/worst names

College Search & Selection
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<p>good: princeton and duke</p>

<p>bad: kalamazoo, drexel, hofstra, grinnell!!! they all just sound really bad.</p>

42

<p>Best: Duke
Worst: Harvey Mudd</p>

43

<p>Best: Duke
Worst: Claremont-Mckenna</p>

44

<p>Worst: American University in London at Florence.</p>

<p>Where is it???</p>

45

<p>never heard of Shorter College, but how about Ursinus</p>

46

<p>Slippery Rock State College</p>

47

<p>To add to the Washington confusion of post 9:</p>

<p>University of Mary Washington. Even alums were upset that it didn't evolve from M W College to Mary Washington University.</p>

<p>Washington College.</p>

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<p>"Pomona" = the Roman goddess of fruit. Honest.</p>

49

<p>what about transylvania college, i just saw it in a magazine and i burst out laughing.</p>

50

<p>worst: duquesne (sp), kalamazoo, hofstra, colgate, dickinson, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Case Western Reserve, susquehana U (weird), Morehouse
best: princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Syracuse</p>

51

<p>university of scantron is the worst</p>

52

<p>I love the way Wellesley sounds.</p>

53

<p>I think Colgate is a good name. Sounds very "rich".</p>

54

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Scantron? I think you mean Scranton. You've taken too many multiple-choice exams... :rolleyes:</p>

55

<p>Best: Duke all the way lol :)
Worst: Sewanee: College of the South doesn't have an attractive title</p>

56

<p>Bob Jones, Sweet Briar...</p>

57

<p>Best: Wellesley (the name sets me dreaming), Trinity University/College, Claremont McKenna, Bryn Mawr, Georgetown
Worst: College of Charleston, Rice, Mount Holyoke, American University, University of Puget Sound</p>

58

<p>Worst: Boulder school of mining
Best: Georgetown, Cornell College(Not the IVY which is university.. lol i bet ppl go there just to pretend that they went to IVY and companies might get confused so it works out good for students.)</p>

59

<p>Best: Stanford. </p>

<p>I just loved that name ever since I first heard it. </p>

<p>Stanford '09!!!!</p>

60

<p>Besides the obvious ones (Princeton, Duke, Stanford) I like some weird ones:</p>

<p>Rhode School of Design, Pepperdine, CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Wake Forest, Rice</p>

<p>I don't like these names:</p>

<p>Ithaca College, U of Rochester, Bryant, Juniata, Quinnipiac (if you have to spell it, forget it) and my #1...Babson</p>