<p>^We'll make sure not to send one to you.</p>
<p>Good: Dartmouth, Whitman, Vanderbilt, William & Mary</p>
<p>Bad: Goucher (gooch), Skidmore (skidmarks), Ursinus (some horrible hybrid of uterus and anus)</p>
<p>^Haha! :D ^_^</p>
<p>Best: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Emerson</p>
<p>Worst: I honestly don't like the name Georgetown. Whenever I see it I think "George Town." A town owned by George.</p>
<p>I don't really know that many college names but from what I've heard:</p>
<p>best: Julliard, Princeton
worst: Northwestern (its a direction..)</p>
<p>kalamazoo!</p>
<p>Best: College of William and Mary, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Pepperdine, Case Western, Auburn, and University of Miami has a certain ring :)</p>
<p>Worst: Ball State has to take it</p>
<p>Best: Kalamazoo! :)</p>
<p>Skidmore just grosses me out.</p>
<p>(OOH, also, I just learned about the Tuft's Jumbos today, and the JP Barnard guy)</p>
<p>Best: Juiliard, Oxford, Notre Dame, Georgetown (although when people refer to it as Gtown, it sounds really ghetto), Shenandoah</p>
<p>Worst: Tufts, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Swarthmore (yeah, definitely sounds like a wad of spit), Walla Walla, Morehead lol. Ursinus is pretty bad too.</p>
<p>LOL, I was going to say Kalamazoo.
I can just see it, some job interview 10 years down the road. It's going to be me and 2 other applicants in the room, and the interviewers are going to ask us what college we went to.</p>
<p>Applicant 1: Harvard
Aplicant 2: Princeton
Me: Um, Kalamazoo.</p>
<p>Kalamazoo is the best! haha, I hadn't even heard of it until I came here.</p>
<p>Like (based on name):
Rice, Yale, Columbia (it rolls so nicely off the tongue!), Reed, Kenyon, Syracuse, Trinity, Deep Springs, Oberlin (Obie-land!), Duke, Bryn Mawr</p>
<p>Dislike (also based just on the name):
Tufts, Kalamazoo, Carnegie Mellon, Ball State, Wheaton, Marlboro, Johns Hopkins, McGill, Knox, DePauw, Ursinus, Wittenberg, Brandeis (I cannot for the life of me pronounce this!), Purdue, Butler, Earlham, Agnes Scott,</p>
<p>curry college</p>
<p>drove by it...</p>
<p>Kalamazoo and Brown</p>
<p>Best
-UCLA</p>
<p>Marlboro? lol</p>
<p>Best:
Princeton-- it sounds so regal
Transylvania University-- oh, the jokes you could make if you went there. And it makes me think of Dracula.</p>
<p>Worst: Quinnipiac University-- I would never be able to pronounce it</p>
<p>Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Skidmore are probably the worst...I don't much like Colgate either</p>
<p>Vanderbilt (yes, I'm biased), Yale, Duke, Harvard, Stanford are all good (not just because they are all good schools)</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is just an annoying name</p>
<p>Good: Columbia (yes I am biased), Haverford, Auburn, Princeton, Brandeis, Amherst and Dartmouth</p>
<p>Bad: University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Ball State, Scripps, Ursinus, DePauw and DePaul</p>
<p>Best:<br>
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Wellesley. Classy but not pretentious.
The Citadel. What an image!
Wabash College. Colorful, unique, and fun to say.
Hendrix. Jimi!
Sweet Briar. Charming</p>
<p>Worst:
Princeton, Duke. Too monarchical, offends my democratic sensibilities.
Vanderbilt, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon. I don't like schools named after robber barons.
Amherst. Named after the guy who first suggested using smallpox-infected blankets to wipe out the Native Americans; kind of like naming a college "Hitler" or "Himmler."
Tufts. Invites the question, tufts of what? I think tufts of cotton.
Colgate. Toothpaste, not my preferred brand.
Colby. Cheesy.
High Point University (NC). All downhill from here?
Appalachian State (NC), University of the Ozarks (AR & MO). I admit as a Michigan man I have a bias against Appy State, but seriously, who'd name a college after one of the most chronically depressed, educationally challenged regions of the country? </p>
<p>Geographically Challenged:
Northwestern U. In Chicago, of course
Northwestern College (IA), Northwestern College (MN). A little closer, but only a little.
Miami University. In Oxford, Ohio
Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Since when did state universities go extraterritorial?
University of the Pacific. In Sacramento, in the Central Valley a good 90 miles from the ocean, but the name conjures up nice images.</p>
<p>A Mouthful:
Washington University in St. Louis
IUPUI (IN)
Hobart and William Smith (NY). I guess "Smith" was already taken, but wouldn't one name suffice? Or maybe "Smith Brothers" like the cough drops, or "Smith & Son" if that's the relationship?
Paul Smith's College (NY). Why so possessive? And I always get it mixed up with the aforementioned H & W Smith
Montana Tech of the University of Montana: huh? </p>
<p>Too Bland:
Smith, Brown, Williams. Enough said
Centre College (KY)
Central College (IA)
Metro State (MN). How's that for generic?
New College of Florida. OK, so when do they name it?
New School (NY). not so new anymore but they still haven't named it.</p>
<p>Schools with an Attitude:
Hope (MI)
Assumption (MA)
Defiance (OH). The school for surly teenagers?</p>