<p>What's really annoying/funny is when people get colleges confused. </p>
<p>Like </p>
<p>Cal Poly Pomona with Pomona College
Haverford with Harvard
Claremont McKenna College with Claremont Mechanics College </p>
<p>Has anybody heard of other mix ups?</p>
<p>Penn and Penn State
Whitman and Whitworth
Wellesley and Wesleyan</p>
<p>Stanford and Samford.</p>
<p>UCSD with San Diego state</p>
<p>UCSB with UCB</p>
<p>Weslayen College vs. University, big difference, the college is all girls.</p>
<p>Harvard vs. Haverford
Northeastern vs. Northwestern</p>
<p>Miami University (which is in Oxford, Ohio) with University of Miami (in Florida) and Cornell College with Cornell University. I heard that some people apply to Cornell College ED thinking that they’re applying to Cornell U lol.
I remember the first time I saw Haverford’s name I thought that they were some crappy school riding on Harvard’s coat tails. Boy was I wrong lol</p>
<p>USC vs USC. so cal, so carolina =]</p>
<p>DePaul and DePauw</p>
<p>yeah Washington U in st louis vs. wash state
My friends cousin actually ended up going to San Diego State thinking it was UCSD</p>
<p>Ucsb, ucsd</p>
<p>Grinnell with Cornell (they actually sound really similar when you say it out loud!)</p>
<p>Washington & Lee University and Washington & Jefferson College</p>
<p>Trinity College and Trinity University. There are several Loyolas too (Loyola College in Maryland , Loyola University in Chicago and NOLA) and Loyola Marymount in California. Confusing.</p>
<p>I definitely committed the USC error when one of the U of South Carolina recruiters asked me for info at the FIRST Championship last year. I filled it out because I vaguely remembered the acronym USC, then turned to ask a teammate after the recruiter was gone, “So… USC’s good, right?” “Oh… not that USC” And then they didn’t even send me any info anyway!</p>
<p>I remember when I used to get mail from colleges trying to attract me; I definitely saw Haverford in there and agree with StevenSeagal’s remark. Definitely thought they were ripping off Harvard’s name and some trashy school. Though liberal arts places aren’t my thing, I have grown to learn that Haverford isn’t to be sneezed at.</p>
<p>Cornell Univeristy vs. Cornell College </p>
<p>rofl,i remember reading a thread last yr when a kid applied for Cornell college, which was not his intention at all… lol…</p>
<p>DW and DD2 visited Cornell College (it’s in Iowa). They were told that they almost always have an international student show up thinking they are at Cornell U.</p>
<p>Wesleyan vs. (insert state name here) Wesleyan</p>
<p>UGH</p>
<p>Wellesley v Wesleyan ! </p>
<p>One only for girls… the other is co-ed :)</p>
<p>California University of Pennsylvania often trips people up…</p>