<p>I got this idea from another thread.</p>
<p>What is the first thing that comes to mind (for each school) when you hear the following names? Keep it to a few words.</p>
<p>Havard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
Upenn
Brown
UChicago
Duke
Rice
Northwestern
WashU
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>I don't know much about these schools but since no one has said anything, I'll try:
Havard- scarves
Yale- Harry Potter and Gilmore Girls
Princeton- The Rule of Four and John Nash
Stanford- stucco
MIT- starkness, math, and John Nash
Caltech- california + technology= silicon valley to me so silicon valley
Cornell- hats
Columbia- cold
Dartmouth- cold and camping. and ice climbing.
Upenn- liberty and 1776
Brown- interesting; a horrible name
UChicago- intimidatingly over-Hogwartsian
Duke- basketball
Rice- chinese food
Northwestern- mmm...Evansville or Evanston or something. Illinois anyway. I guess I think corn.
WashU- George, and "suckers!!"
Johns Hopkins- medicine and dirt
Notre Dame- the Hunchback, and Regis Philbin (he went there or something right?)
Vanderbilt-southern hierarchy</p>
<p>Harvard - Huge sense of self-importance, top of the mountain, and bustle of Harvard Square.
Yale - Oasis of classiness in rough city.
Princeton - Extremely clean and sophisticated.
Stanford - Elitism and California don't fit well...you get a weird vibe there because of that.
MIT - Utilitarian, practical, sheer brainpower and few tulip gardens.
Cornell - Cold, isolated, little brother trying to keep up with big brothers.
Columbia - Only real urban types would want to spend college years in a place with so many distractions. If you can get in there, you can get in some place where you'll have much more of a traditional college experience.
Dartmouth - Beautiful, peaceful vibe, probably best college on earth for someone who wants a small-town atmosphere.
Penn - Practical, professional, hectic, not even slightly bucolic.
Brown - Liberal, excellent, probably too good for Providence.
Chicago - Pure brainpower undistracted by usual college diversions.
Duke - Aggressive New York/New Jersey folks throwing their weight around amid polite Southerners.
Rice - Confident, superb, and content with its niche.
Northwestern - Beautiful setting next to Lake Michigan. Name in purple looks great on gray sweatshirts.
Wash U - You'd have to be very non-superficial to go there for the excellent academics and not be irritated by the prospect of explaining that you didn't go to U of Washington of GWU for the rest of your life.
J Hopkins - Same as Chicago, but more slanted towards sciences.
Notre Dame - Incredible traditions and name recognition. Beautiful campus is well maintained but isolated from rest of "city."
Vanderbilt - Classy Southern country club now being invaded by loud Mid-Atlantic Ivy rejects.</p>
<p>Havard - legally blonde / extremely preppy place / lawyers
Yale - lawyers, preppy place
Princeton - laid back top ivy
Stanford - cali!
MIT - geeks / losers
Cornell - beautiful campus
Columbia - new york city
Dartmouth - snow
Upenn - philly
Duke - sports(basketball)
Johns Hopkins - premed
Notre Dame - football</p>
<p>Havard- red bricks
Yale- castles, arches, ivies
Princeton- foggy overcast, castles
Stanford- desert and adobes
MIT- computers next to a lake
Caltech- white buildings, petri dishes
Cornell- waterfalls, bridges, dead people
Columbia- low memorial library. nostalgia. rich private kids
Dartmouth- colonial, grass
Upenn- ben franklin, slums
Brown- brown
UChicago- gargoyles
Duke- abercrombie hollister football
Rice- bowl of rice, cowboys (possibly gay)
Northwestern- newspapers, wind jackets, deserted
WashU- arch with flag, the south
Johns Hopkins- prison cells, sketchy baltimore
Notre Dame- church
Vanderbilt- wood, hay</p>
<p>Since I think tourguide hit the nail on the head, I'll just play a game of word association!</p>
<p>Havard: Legally Blonde
Yale: Gilmore Girls
Princeton: Dunkin Donuts
Stanford: Taco Bell
MIT: Robots
Caltech: Nerdy kids in glasses
Cornell: Waterfalls
Columbia: Cocaine
Dartmouth: Snow
Upenn: Penn State
Brown: Poo
UChicago: Lake Michigan
Duke: JJ Resnick
Rice: Soy Sauce
Northwestern: Oregon and Washington
WashU: Laundromats
Johns Hopkins: A geeky dude holding a giant textbook saying, "Hi, my name is Johns Hopkins, and I'm going to rip the pages out of this book so I'll get the highest grade!"
Notre Dame: Rudy
Vanderbilt: Tequila</p>
<p>I don't even know what part of my brain most of these were spawned from. :)</p>
<p>Harvard: old, extremely good, but maybe getting out of touch in its own ego
Yale: Harvard wanna-be
Princeton: In its own little world, Princeton offense
Stanford: best in the country, yet will never get the respect it deserves from blue bloods and east-coast bias
MIT: Extremely smart people, but maybe not well rounded
Caltech: students who would go to MIT but want to be "cool" by being in LA
Cornell: the Ivy that makes you actually work
Columbia: Alicia Keys, Second-best-rounded Ivy after Cornell, but being in NYC helps that out
Dartmouth: the "Is that an Ivy?" Ivy
UPenn: Just what is it that you do?
Brown: Chris Berman, Varsity Blues
UChicago: Good idea in theory
Duke: Basketball, elite school that knows how to best use its athletics
Rice: Hey, the South has to have a good school too
Northwestern: Haha, northwestern. Sportswriters
WashU: Div III? I'm going to a Div III school?
John Hopkins: Med school
Notre Dame: Wish they could beat 'SC
Vanderbilt: Oh yea, now i remember</p>
<p>Havard - Good Will Hunting, Boston, COLD, boo Red Sox.
Yale - even the name oozes "chin up, look down on you"
Princeton - Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (someone will get it)
Stanford - California! Beautiful weather.
MIT - Good Will Hunting, nerds who want to freeze in MA.
Caltech - nerds in California
Cornell - cooold.
Columbia - New York!
Dartmouth - aht Dartmouth (inside joke at my school)
Upenn - Wharton is damn good
Brown - "Not Brown, Brown, Brown, Brown..." - Lisa Simpson
UChicago - best. essay prompts. ever. But I didn't apply because it's got a little too much of a nerd rep for my tast
Duke - Duck Fu ke.
Rice - Texas, baby. Too hot, but a good school.
Northwestern - Purple. Good speech/debate program...top-notch journalism--friend is going there.
WashU - who wants to go to St. Louis?
Johns Hopkins - Baltimore, "the city that reads"...at a 5th grade level
Notre Dame - Catholic, football, football, football.
Vanderbilt - I'm told they have really hot girls.</p>
<p>Harvard - The Best.
Yale - Intellectuals/Broadway & Chapel/Secret Societies
Princeton - Preppy Eating Clubs
Stanford - laid-back, yet elite down-to earth kids
MIT - math/genius kids.<br>
Cornell - Cold, heavy workload
Columbia - emo/hipsters
Dartmouth - pretty campus
Penn - i think of wharton right away
Brown - extremely liberal Ivy/take classes P/F
Chicago - socially awkward intellectuals
Duke - basketball.
Rice - science kids/residential colleges
Northwestern - academic school with D-1 football
Wash U - a slightly better Emory
J Hopkins - nerdy Science/Math Kids
Notre Dame - Fighting Irish. The movie Rudy.
Vanderbilt - national "prep school". good-looking kids who like to party.</p>
<p>Havard- Harvard yard in december
Yale- Not Harvard
Princeton- Nash and popped collar
Stanford- Heaven
MIT- Genius
Caltech- Nerd, math, poor hygein
Cornell- Wannabee Ivy League who arent quite smart enough
Columbia- Cool, Metrosexual. Urban ppl who are also smart
Dartmouth- Intellectual discussions
Upenn- Warton
Brown- Ditto Dartmouth
UChicago- Economics
Duke- The South, Basketball, beauty
Rice- Texas, engineering
Northwestern- That other Illinois Uni.
WashU- Tries too hard for US news
Johns Hopkins- Medicine, Baltimore
Notre Dame- Football, tradition, catholic
Vanderbilt- RIch preppy southern kid</p>
<p>Havard - everybody's dream school
Yale - everybody's second dream school
Princeton - arrogance
Stanford - North Cali
MIT - my dream school
Caltech - my second dream school
Cornell - MIT rejects
Columbia - liberals
Dartmouth - beautiful New Hampshire
Upenn - Wharton
Brown - is it even ivy anymore?
UChicago - ivy wanna-be
Duke - basketball
Rice - Texas
Northwestern - offencive football
WashU - Cardinals (St. Louis Cardinals that is)
Johns Hopkins - lax and research
Notre Dame - irish
Vanderbilt - good school in a poor state</p>
<p>Havard--that fact that i really really don't like it
Yale--the best school in the country
Princeton--stuffy
Stanford--sunny
MIT--beautiful campus
Caltech--a beach (no idea why)
Cornell--cold!
Columbia--new york weather, dirtiness of the big city
Dartmouth--rural, bucolic
Upenn--the gorgeous campus
Brown--the first thing that comes to mind is the au bon pain near campus
UChicago--pretentious
Duke--good old Duke :)
Rice--texas. i'll pass.
Northwestern--the lake near which it is situated and into which it should fall
WashU--beautiful campus
Johns Hopkins--cold
Notre Dame--catholics
Vanderbilt--white southerners</p>
<p>Please don't flame me. These are the first things that come to mind. I KNOW that most of them aren't true at all. I myself don't agree with most of the things that I put down here...but you did ask for what came to mind first, not what I really thought of all those excellent schools.</p>
<p>I'm just going to say one thing I noticed, in general, about all of these schools. They're all private...why no publics?? hmmm...</p>
<p>Havard - snobs
Yale - snobs, dingy city
Princeton - preppy kids
Stanford - palm trees and lush fields
MIT - fun nerds, geniuses
Caltech - not fun nerds, geniuses, homework
Cornell - suicide, cold
Columbia - NYC
Dartmouth - forests
Upenn - streets of philadelphia
Brown - really preppy kids
UChicago - boring
Duke - dbags, rich southern kids
Rice - cool southern kids
Northwestern - parties, awesome midwestern kids
WashU - overrated
Johns Hopkins - lots of premeds
Notre Dame - golden dome, fighting irish
Vanderbilt - south? nothing really comes to mind..</p>
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Princeton - Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital (someone will get it)
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I love House!!!</p>
<p>Havard- boston, red sox, quad, crimson
Yale- hale, gothic architecture, blue money
Princeton- eating clubs, toni morrison
Stanford-basketball, try to give off the laid back feel..
MIT- ugly architecture, boston, interesting nerds
Caltech- cali, silicon valley, uneven female and male ratio
Cornell-hotel school, middle of nowhere, tough curriculum
Columbia- South America, NYC, the core
Dartmouth- gargoyles, darts flying in a person's mouth, remote locations
Upenn- philly cheese steaks, city of brotherly love, wharton
Brown-brownstone houses, the color brown, open curriculum
UChicago- sears towers, having fun literally die, weird essays
Duke- royalty, duke wellington, basketball
Rice- chinese food, chopsticks, lots of trees
Northwestern- why would they call it northwestern when it's not even in the northwest??/, purple, train rides to chicago
WashU- friendy, midwest, high U.S. news rankings, generous with fin. aid
Johns Hopkins- medical school, stressed medical students
Notre Dame- nuns, football, Catholicism, parties
Vanderbilt- country music, country clubs, popped collars</p>
<p>I like this thread. Its fun.</p>
<p>HARVARD- entire student body clad in lawyer apparel/carrying briefcases, hustle and bustle of Boston, Byerly (heh.....), arrogance.</p>
<p>YALE- New Haven PD, residential colleges (harry potter), grey/spooky in wintertime, G-Dubs.</p>
<p>PRINCETON- quintessential "college" feel/campus, gentlemen's club, orange, socially apt ivy, Cornel West.</p>
<p>STANFORD- try too hard to come across as hardly trying, Cali (duh), maroon crewneck sweatshirt.</p>
<p>MIT- nerrrrrrrrds, and graphing calculators.</p>
<p>CALTECH- " "</p>
<p>CORNELL- hotel management, cliff-jumping, cold/dead town of Ithaca.</p>
<p>COLUMBIA- designer handbags, political protests, NYC nightlife, worst athletic program of the ivies.</p>
<p>DARTMOUTH- animal house, frat boys playing beer pong @ 10 am, wilderness haven for the outdoorsy types.</p>
<p>UPENN- preprofessional student body, philly cheesesteaks, Wharton.</p>
<p>BROWN- intellectual hippies, Out of Ivy, pseudo-radicals, Ruth Simmons.</p>
<p>UCHICAGO- party=dressing up as Plato and reciting lines from the Republic, Academia.</p>
<p>DUKE- JJ Redick is a bastard, Cameron Crazies, glorified athletes, and inevitably, men's lacrosse.</p>
<p>RICE- funloving, bright Texans who want a good education, but can't bear the idea of stepping foot over the TX border (pledge allegiance to its flag every morning...)</p>
<p>NORTHWESTERN- purple, journalists, *****-of-an-application.</p>
<p>WASHU- Nelly (st louis), definitely not superior to the likes of Brown (though US News would fail to concur), overzealous tour guides.</p>
<p>JOHN HOPKINS- all the premed horror stories meshed into one.</p>
<p>NOTRE DAME- cult, Charlie Weiss, clovers.</p>
<p>VANDERBILT- fake blondes with Louis Vuittons (rhyme unintended), VandySucks.com</p>
<p>Harvard - Cambridge, Crimson
Yale - Skull and Crossbones
Princeton - Eating clubs, undergraduates
Stanford - Ivy of the West
MIT - Nerd club
Caltech - Nerb club of the West
Cornell - Cold, suicides
Columbia - City folk
Dartmouth - frats, cold
Upenn - boring Ivy
Brown - tea drinking frats
UChicago - Nobel fans
Duke - lacrosse, you know the rest
Rice - Ivy of the South
Northwestern - Somewhere in Ohio, maybe, don't even know
WashU - marketing madness
Johns Hopkins - doctors
Notre Dame - catholics, football
Vanderbilt - the old south</p>
<p>HARVARD- random</p>
<p>YALE- Gilmore Girls</p>
<p>PRINCETON- Guy at my school.</p>
<p>STANFORD- Psyyyyyyyyych</p>
<p>MIT- the boyfriend</p>
<p>CALTECH- $$$$$$$$$</p>
<p>CORNELL- flipping freezing.</p>
<p>COLUMBIA- this is ivy?!</p>
<p>BROWN- med!</p>
<p>UCHICAGO- amazing essays.</p>
<p>DUKE- lacrosse.</p>
<p>RICE- my lover</p>
<p>NORTHWESTERN- hey...you're not in Chicago.</p>
<p>WASHU- You should change your name...</p>
<p>JOHNS HOPKINS- my other lover</p>
<p>VANDERBILT- girls. (and I'm a girl... -_-')</p>
<p>Havard-overrated
Yale-pmpous, sweater vests
Princeton-new jersey is dirty
Stanford-asians
MIT-geeks
Caltech-computer science
Cornell-cold; ice cream store
Columbia-new york city
Dartmouth-small, white buildings
Upenn-next door to drexel
Brown-i hate them...b@sta@rds
UChicago-windy city
Duke-blue devils; basketball; north carolina
Rice-texans
Northwestern-what state is it in again
WashU-seattle; depressing location
Johns Hopkins-DC, CTY kids, high achievers
Notre Dame-football
Vanderbilt-pretty school colors</p>
<p>wow, someone should submit this thread to WashU to further convince them of how misleading/awful the name is.</p>