<p>Best: Emory, Macalester, Columbia
Worst: SUNY-Purchase College (if your parents have a lot of money, they can just...), Occidental (sounds like accidental), Hendrix (like Jimi), Simon's Rock College of Bard (what???)</p>
<p>There is also a school in the South that has "of Women" in the name even though about 10% of the student body is male. I can't remember it just now.</p>
<p>skidmore (skid mark), misericordia (misery), tufts (of hair), st. olaf (count olaf), sewanee (sewers), wofford (woof!).</p>
<p>university of scantron cracked me up. thank you, misterme. :)</p>
<p>i like harvard, wellesley, rizdee (rhode island school of design), dartmouth.</p>
<p>I always thought that calling a college Longwood was just asking for trouble.</p>
<p>On a related note, there's a dorm at Haverford called Drinker House. For Heaven's sake, if you want to name a dorm in memory of somebody whose last name is Drinker, use the poor sap's first name. One guess about the party reputation of this house when I was in college...</p>
<p>At Wake Forest, we used to regularly attract international students who were attracted primarily by the "leafiness" of the name.</p>
<p>Yay, I like this game!</p>
<p>Best: Princeton (from the first time Sondra Huxtable said it, I fell in love), Vanderbilt, Stanford, Dartmouth, Trinity (U and C), Julliard</p>
<p>Worst: Ball State, Eckerd College (too much like the store), Gonzaga (reminds me too much of Gonzo from Sesame Street ;)), Humboldt State</p>
<p>Worst: Walla Walla, Kalamazoo, Marlboro, Colgate
Best: Wesleyan, Princeton, Dartmouth</p>
<p>whats wrong with humboldt state?</p>
<p>certainly rolls off the tongue better than "cal state dominguez hills" or many of the others.</p>
<p>Ugh, what's with all the boring ones? I like the really pretty names like Juilliard and Villanova (seriously--I briefly looked at that just b/c of the gorgeous name!)</p>
<p>agreed, though...marlboro should be on the worst list</p>
<p>okay, to deviate from the university names for a second, I think that Harvard has the worst library name... Pusey. Every time I hear it I giggle like a school girl [I am] and blush. Its hilarious!</p>
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<p>But you see, when I rank, I consider both verbal and visual beauty, and Humboldt...well, it's not exactly the rosiest-looking name, I have to say ;)</p>
<p>Best: Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Auburn, Stanford (for a long time, I thought the latter was in Stamford CT)</p>
<p>Worst: Skidmore (where? In your shorts?), Harvey Mudd (related), Bob Jones U (sounds like the guy next door, and of course the BJU thing), Drexel (drek), DePauw and DePaul (not only do they sound weird, I don't know which is which!)</p>
<p>And, of course, Tufts.</p>
<p>"No, kitty! That's a bad kitty"</p>
<p>Back in high school we had this kid who could cram five throwing darts into his mouth.
We called him Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Best Names:
Stanford, Georgetown (wow, I love how that sounds), Darthmouth, Princeton, Macalester, Middlebury, Boston College. My brother loves Vanderbilt, he says it sounds like the smartest/most exclusive place in the world, but he knows nothing, hes a dumbass.</p>
<p>Worst Names:
lots...
Claremont McKenna (this is a dream school for me, but the freaking names kills it. I cant imgine telling people I go to Claremont McKenna, it sounds like a Community College)
Tufts, Emory, Carnegie Mellon(LMAO!), Rennslaer Institute, Bowdoin, Mount Holyoke (is that an all nun school? lol)... and all universities that start and emphasize THE in their names (THE Ohio State University, THE Geworge Washington University)</p>
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<p>It changed its name to Claremont McKenna in 1980. It had started admitting women four years earlier, so it no longer made sense to call itself Claremont Men's College. Would you have liked the old name any better?</p>
<p>Definetely, lol. How about just Claremont College, or even McKenna College (yeah this one sounds nice) but urgh, that name. I know this discussion is ridiculous, but its nice im able to talk to someone about it without them going "Say What!?!?"</p>
<p>How about breaking the list down to</p>
<p>The Good
The Bad
The Ugly</p>
<p>"The" Ohio State Universty annoys me too. Ironic thing is, they have multiple campuses!! :)</p>
<p>Best: Emory, Brandeis, Columbia</p>
<p>Worst: CalTech (moo!) Carnegie Mellon (steel magnate fruit?) Puget Sound (simply terrible)</p>
<p>More from PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (what's with PA and colleges named after other states?), Shippensburg (inland, not on a major river), Lock Haven (not near Shippensburg, although its name sounds as if it ought to be), Misericorida, Kutztown (sounds too much like Klutztown), Bryn Mawr (like Rennselaer - difficult to spell and pronounce unless you are familiar with it).</p>
<p>Ursinus sounds like a bear with a sinus infection.</p>