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But who honestly names a school after Robert E. Lee?
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<p>Well, he was an amazing war general. I believe he himself didn't support slavery but only fought for the south out of loyalty.</p>
<p>Swarthmore reminds me of a swarm of insects.</p>
<p>Weird names</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines
All of the SUNY's
UPenn--sounds like a private school
Tufts--makes me think of a mustache
Ones with multiple branches (South Carolina, Ohio St., Penn St.)
Princeton (person-what's that. you-it's like harvard and yale)</p>
<p>ALL OF THE COLLEGES THAT SEND YOU MAIL THAT SAY WE'RE JUST AS GOOD AS ________(HARVARD, DUKE, STANFORD, etc.) WHEN THEY'RE NOT</p>
<p>Rice Northwestern and Brown, cause you don't think of prestigous colleges when they come to mind</p>
<p>North Carolina State University (just write it NCST and people know what it is)</p>
<p>many many more</p>
<p>Best:</p>
<p>They'res only three really</p>
<p>Harvard
Duke
MIT</p>
<p>Why other's arent</p>
<p>Yale: always compared to Harvard
Princeton: tries to be comparable to H and Y, but they're not. If only PR didn't do the rankings and influence US news hahaha
Stanford: people dont know where it is
Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, etc. When people ask you where you went to college, many say "ivy league" If you're going to H or Y, you say H or Y. If you go to penn, you say ivy league when people think its a state school. If you go somewhere the average person thinks is dumb, it's not that prestigous.</p>
<p>DeltaRoyale, what a dumb post...We're talking about names, not prestige. Which idiot doesnt know Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia, Upenn?</p>
<p>And Princeton is on the same level as Harvard, higher than Yale.</p>
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<p>UPenn IS a private school.</p>
<p>Seriously, you didnt know Upenn was a private school and your badmouthing Princeton...</p>
<p>"And Princeton is on the same level as Harvard, higher than Yale."</p>
<p>Well, actually, Princeton is better than Harvard, which is better than Yale. This is true because US News says so.</p>
<p>[This is sarcasm.]</p>
<p>Bad: Tufts, Swarthmore, Rutgers
Good: Rice, Pomona, Dartmouth, Oberlin, CIA (Cooking Institute of America - those are some fine initials)</p>
<p>Person 1: Where did you go for college?</p>
<p>Person 2: CIA.</p>
<p>Person 1: Woooooooooooow.... The Central Intelligence Agency? For Real?</p>
<p>Person 2: Huh...Central Intelligence Agency? No, the Cooking Institute of America.</p>
<p>Best:</p>
<p>Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, UCLA, (the acronym) University of California - Los Angeles is way too long, Georgetown, Columbia</p>
<p>Worst:</p>
<p>Swarthmore and Cornell</p>
<p>Worst:
The George Washington University
Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Best: University of Virginia (UVA for short)
Worst: Hood College</p>
<p>I've gotten mail from Wartburg College.</p>
<p>Pretty appealing?</p>
<p>South Harmon Institute of Technology =D</p>
<p>penn public private...you know what i meant</p>
<p>oral roberts. period.</p>
<p>Amherst. </p>
<p>If you rearrange the letters, you get "Hamster."</p>
<p>Beat that.</p>
<p>I love this thread! Simply because I have personally not considered some colleges because I thought they had silly names. I know that's not fair. . but. . .<br>
ie. . .
I got mail from Occidental- it looks way to much like Accidental for me.</p>
<p>I totally agree, katia11...I've ruled out a few schools for their bad names alone. I was actually relieved when Skidmore waitlisted me.</p>
<p>I don't know why, but I kind of like Skidmore. . . </p>
<p>Anyway- College of Wooster- I hear it is a great LAC, but in grammar school there was this kid who had a speech impediment and we had to read picture books to the class . . . and his was had a title with the word "Rooster" in it. . . and forever in my mind I will think of him going "Wooster!"</p>