Colleges with best/worst names

College Search & Selection
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<p>I hate the name Johns Hopkins. I feel like it's John[']s Hopkin[']s University... like a multiple ownership and I just get confused. </p>

<p>Other bad ones- Allegheny, Case Western Reserve, Loyola, Yeshiva, Villanova, Salve Regina, Oglethorpe, Muskingum, Gonzaga</p>

<p>And religious names, especially bible colleges, drive me nuts. They sound like Sunday schools.</p>

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<p>Where was the name Johns Hopkins derived from(im too lazy to look it up).</p>

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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Johns Hopkins was named for the man, a philanthropist, businessman, abolitionist and Quaker. He died with no heirs, and left 7 million to the University, which equals about $86,542,022 in today's money.</p>

<p>His first name, Johns, wasn't a unfortunate mistake of his parents, but instead the surname of his great grandmother, Margaret Johns. Poor guy.</p>

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<p>Case Western Reserve sounds like the name of an Old West bank.</p>

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<p>Brown is a pretty bad name, as some ppl on this board will say, it is the color of something disgusting...enough said.</p>

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<p>"i always thought Tufts and Yale sounded peculiar...
of course, Duke, Vanderbilt and Stanford are all kinda retarded, who names a university after themself? Actually, Stanford is double-retarded, as the actual name of the University is Leland Stanford Jr. University... leland knew it was dumb to name a university after himself, so he named it after his dead son, who, suprisingly, had the same last name."</p>

<p>Right.. so he waited for his son to die just so he could name the university after him.</p>

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<p>his son died of leukemia at age 5</p>

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<p>I thought his son died in the Civil War?</p>

<p>Anyways,
BEST: Wellsley, Amherst, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Berkeley (when UC isn't in the title), Notre Dame
WORST: Cal State Dominguez Hills, Drexel, Xavier, Pepperdine</p>

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<p>Amhest is not the best one, many confuse it with UMass Amherst. Columbia is probably the best one, Princeton, Duke is also nice....</p>

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<p>Whoops, just looked it up; his son died of typhoid in his teens.</p>

<p>Sure, maybe people confuse it with UMass but going by the sound of the name... Amherst just sounds so prestigious. And yes, add Columbia; I have no idea how I overlooked it.</p>

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<p>and don't forget the University of Pennsylvania!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Hmmm, I never thought of Brown in that context until people here started to say it that way. I always thought it sounded nice and professional. Oh well. </p>

<p>Bad ones:
-Washington University in St. Louis (You have to say the whole thing or people don't know what school you mean)
-Northwestern (well, the "north" part is right)
-University of Chicago (sounds like a public school = misleading)
-Dartmouth (sounds immature and my mouth hurts everytime I read it)</p>

<p>Good Ones:
-Loyola (has a ring)
-Harvard
-Stanford
-Vassar</p>

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<p>I think the problem with UPenn is that it's often thought to be penn state</p>

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<p>Best: Columbia, Columbia, and did I say Columbia yet? (And there's nothing wrong with ignorant people thinking you are going to Colombia for some of that good stuff ;))</p>

<p>Worst:
Gordon College ("It's Gordon the fisherman" LMAO, remember the commercials?)</p>

<p>And I personally express my sympathy for anyone going to Cornell College (not university) and Haverford, hehehehe.</p>

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<p>This isn't a college, but how about Dummer Academy? It's a private school in Massachussetts...</p>

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<p>The Good: Bryn Mawr (very pretty/feminine), Johns Hopkins (am I the only one who likes it?), Stanford (it just sounds nice).</p>

<p>The Bad: Ursinus (I am seriously considering this college, but the name makes me giggle everytime they send me something) and Middlebury (ack!).</p>

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<p>Boston University gets to be a pain-- "is that the Catholic one?" "Is that a public school?"</p>

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<p>well i like this game </p>

<p>best : princeton,stanford, UCLA, Upenn (its cool)
worst:colgate(everybody asks is that a university or a toothpaste ?)
texas christian u (awkward)
duke ( duke of what london , cornwall??!!!)
ball state (funny )
washington in st louis( too long )
dartmouth ( reminds me of flies i dont know why , i dont like this name)
yale ( when i first heard of it a university named yell , why not shout ,cry)</p>

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<p>Duke of Earl...Knew the song way before the school...</p>

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<p>Best one:
1. Princeton (by far the best sounding)
2. Stanford
3. Columbia</p>

<p>Worst:
1. Univ. of Puget Sound
2. WUSTL
3. Dartmouth</p>