<p>beprepn--The members of congress who graduated from Transylvania (almost all of whom hailed from Kentucky) are almost all in the 19th century. It was one of the few western schools until the mid 1800's and, like the older New England and Northeastern schools when they started (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.) provided seminary training for men from Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas.</p>
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"Thats why Penn goes by Penn and Princeton is no longer called the "college of New Jersey"</p>
<p>-Maybe not, but The College of New Jersey is still called the College of New Jersey...
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<p>Actually, today's College of New Jersey, just started being called the College of New Jersey. </p>
<p>It was founded in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School; then in 1908 became New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton; then in 1929 it was named the New Jersey State Teachers College and State Normal School at Trenton; then in 1937 it became the New Jersey State Teachers College at Trenton; then in 1958 they started calling it Trenton State College; and its latest incarnation was in 1996 when they swiped the old Princeton name of The College of New Jersey.</p>
<p>Given most people's visceral reaction to the state of New Jersey, I'm surprised they didn't change Trenton State's name to "A College Really Close to Pennsylvania."</p>
<p>-- Case Western Reserve formed because of a merger between the Case School of Engineering and Western Reserve University</p>
<p>--There's a college near me that used to be called Dyke. They changed it to Myers for obvious reasons :-)</p>
<p>Best: Princeton, Dartmouth
Worst: Colgate (just toothpaste connotation), Bob Jones</p>
<p>Best: Dartmouth, Swarthmore, Vassar, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>Worst: Grinnell, Colgate, Rice, Tufts, Colby, Kenyon, University of Pennsylvania (for an Ivy, it sounds very state-schoolish)</p>
<p>^^^ Lol, sounds state schoolish. God forbid. </p>
<p>I have always really hated the name Princeton because it sounds so stuck up.</p>
<p>Best: Princeton, Harvard, COLUMBIA, Williams, and Georgetown </p>
<p>Worst : Tufts, Middlebury, Rice (first time I heard about it I started laughing lol), Carnegie Mellon, Bowling Green State, worcester poly, and rensselaer poly</p>
<p>I would have to say The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. That name, is just UNPRONOUNCEABLE. Although I think I might end up going there :p, the department of International Politics is just amazing.</p>
<p>Having spent many years in North Carolina, this school name always seemed to stick out:</p>
<p>Barber-Scotia College
(pronounced Sco-shuh) it's a 4-year institution, not a barber college.</p>
<p>My friend made a joke about how BALL State probably has ROLLING admissions. Only a CC'er could laugh at that. XD</p>
<p>Bad: Rutgers, Texas Christian University, Bowling Green State University</p>
<p>Good: Texas Tech (just sounds cool), Rensselaer, St. John's, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Coolest name by far: Wake Forest
cool: Texas Tech, Duke, Umass, Dartmouth
Stupid: Marquette, Holy Cross, Old Dominion, Franklin Pierce
Worst: University of Puget Sound (initials UPS)</p>
<p>Good: Imperial College of London (one of the best "new" colleges in the UK), Princeton (I'm biased), Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia.</p>
<p>Bad: Cornell, Lehigh, Case Western Reserve, Ursinus, Villa Julie (PA), Pepperdine (pretty school, sounds like a gimmicky salt/pepper shaker company), Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey (they could do so much better).</p>
<p>Special categories:</p>
<p>Schools named after 19th century industry barons and family
- Duke
- Stanford
- Vanderbilt
- Carnegie Mellon
- Rice</p>
<p>Best: Berkeley, UCLA, NYU, MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Vandy
Worst: Tufts, Yale, Rice</p>
<p>One of the worst has to be Occidental College. Sounds too much like "accidental." My apologies if this was mentioned earlier; I did not read all 41 pages. :-P</p>
<p>hmm funny it makes me think more of OxyClean</p>
<p>best: Claremont McKenna - just sounds young and hip
worse: Purdue or Brown - a typo of pursue vs the color of crap</p>
<p>Worst name: Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>Just kind of sounds depressing.</p>
<p>Good school though</p>
<p>Worst Names: Bard; Hofstra; DePaux; Elon
Good Names: Bennington; Princeton; Dartmouth, and my favorite-Pomona</p>
<p>Why is everyone putting Dartmouth as Good name?
It totally sounds like an insult..</p>
<p>"Shut your Dartmouth up!"</p>