<p>WUSTL should seriously consider changing the name of their school.</p>
<p>Marlboro and Tufts are heinously bad sounding. Same with Salve Regina (like Saliva...ugh, nevermind.)</p>
<p>Worst:
Beloit, Kalamazoo, Colgate, Scripps, Binghamton U., Duke</p>
<p>Good:
Wellesley, Dartmouth, Princeton, Vassar</p>
<p>I'll post some more later with my reasoning behind it, as well.</p>
<p>I've never been real crazy about the name of my alma mater - University of Pittsburgh. "Pitt" isn't a flattering nickname, but UP is worse. (Is that the opposite of down? Or is it "you pee"?)</p>
<p>on the transylvania website, they call themselves "transys". that's too close to transsexual...</p>
<p>princeton and georgetown are by far the best.</p>
<p>How about Aberystwyth (University of Wales). Way too hard to pronounce.</p>
<p>Their Department of International Politics is the oldest department of its kind in the world.</p>
<p>Worst names: Walla Walla State University, Concordia College.
Come to think of it, Concordia doesn't sound do bad compared to Walla Walla State.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>To bad Washington University can't just call themselves St. Louis University>></p> </blockquote>
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<p>There already IS a St. Louis University...it would be even MORE confusing if there were two.</p>
<p>Worst:
Harvey Mudd
Oral Roberts
Bob Jones
Marlboro
Agnes Scott</p>
<p>university of wollongong</p>
<p>How about Transylvania University in Kentucky for a worst candidate in the ghoulish category. As for best, Rhodes College got a PR winner by changing its name some years ago from Southwestern University in Memphis to "Rhodes" after a professor who taught there.</p>
<p>Slippery Rock State University in Pennsylvania almost slipped my mind as a worst name candidate.</p>
<p>All time best "rival" button spotted at Penn State:</p>
<p>*****t on Pitt!</p>
<p>First time bleeped...</p>
<p>Pepperdine always reminds me of Pepperidge Farm goldfish. </p>
<p>I don't like Lehigh</p>
<p>And Princeton is the best :p</p>
<p>worst:
immaculata, harvey mudd, wooster, dartmouth, johns hopkins (like someone said before, WAY too many S's)</p>
<p>best:
princeton, vassar, bryn mawr, wellesley</p>
<p>best- amherst, dartmouth, princeton, harvard (hahvahd), gtown, stanford, yale, gonzaga, american, columbia, vanderbilt, tulane, urochester, rutgers, indiana-bloomington, umiami, notre dame, bowling green, UNLV, USC, UCLA, NYU, UHawaii-Manoa, quinnipac, wooster, trinity</p>
<p>worst- Brown, drexel (dreadful), bob jones (mike jones-281-330-8004), brandeis, johns hopkins, northwestern, northeastern, texas christian, baylor, rice, wustl, howard, seton hall, lehigh, marlboro, UKansas (Boring), colgate, new college of florida, anything with the words alaska or a city/state in the middle of the u.s., virginia commonwealth, clemson, upitt</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr sounds list some beared lady from Eastern Europe</p>
<p>And American University sound name-brand</p>
<p>What is so bad about Marlboro? It's a fairly common town name aswell.</p>
<p>Is it just me or is Skidmore the worst one...it kind of reminds me of skid mark...</p>
<p>Best: Wellesley, Amherst, PRINCETON, Georgetown, Auburn, Clarion, Duquesne, Belmont Abbey, Claremont, Cambridge, </p>
<p>Worst: Austin Peay, Berklee, Canisius, Erskine, Grinnell, Lamar, LeMoyne, Pace, Ramapo, Brevard, Catawba, Ouachita Baptist</p>