<p>Andover
Exeter
St. Paul's
St. George's
Blair
Thacher
Cate
Webb
Cranbrook
Ashbury
Andover
Kent</p>
<p>I don't like:</p>
<p>Lawrenceville (sounds like a town)
Groton (eihhhh)</p>
<p>oh and by far the worst name for me is loomis chaffee... loomis is fine, but chaffee?? no offense to the people who go there because it's an excellent school. I just don't like the name</p>
<p>I think some of my friends are half-deaf:
They heard Hotchkiss as Hotchicks
Choate=chocolate</p>
<p><em>Story time</em>
Hotchkiss is stapler in Korean as well, and the week before 3/10, my mom was looking for the stapler, and she was walking around saying,"where is the hotchkiss?" and I didn't know she was talking about the stapler, so I kinda got angry and told her not to talk about boarding school results.
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<p>hotchkissplease, I was just going to post that from reading ickle's response! LOL but you did the job well :D my parents knew about the stapler years and years before the school (umm they knew about the school about a month ago XD)</p>
<p>people here love the sound of middlesex. Most people say in the order they applied, exeter (when i saw this i'd always think executioner, lol, before i saw the school name) choate, hotchkiss, middlesex, and then they have to stop because around five people are laughing at hotchkiss, and fifteen are laughing at middlesex. sad but true. my mom had trouble believing that it was really spelt that way</p>
<p>Choate is pronounced CHOTE, leanlikeacello :)</p>
<p>Hmm
People can really judge a school on it's name.
Previously, there was a thread going on in the COLLEGE CC, and it was something about stupid reasons why people didn't apply to a college.
Some people didn't apply to Colgate because it sounds like a toothpaste.
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<p>kickme, my parents knew about all of the schools that I applied to BEFORE I applied, because they had friends whose sons/daughters went to prestigious schools.</p>
<p>REally? Why don't yall like Exeter? I think it sounds edgy and fashionable.</p>
<p>People here (in Exeter, NH) pronounce it "eggs-eter".</p>
<p>exeter always remineded me of a sword...</p>
<p>I like the names montclair-kimberly & milton :( (it's the name of a band I like)</p>
<p>o yea Milton Academy has a cool name .</p>
<p>"exeter always remineded me of a sword..."</p>
<p>i think that is cause it sounds like excelsior. :P</p>
<p>lol :D
me too!</p>
<p>Excalibur was the name of King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>xoxcookie
are you serious?! hahahahhahaha choate is like CHOTE?!
omg hahahahaha</p>
<p>milton, andover, exeter, and st. paul's have such... classic boarding schoolish names.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.miltonmusic.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.miltonmusic.com/</a></p>
<p>I was at their concert last summer and he was wearing a t-shirt that had milton written on it. it was a pretty cool shirt and a bunch of people were asking him where they could buy it. apparently his brother picked it up at a thrift store, so you can probably guess where it originated</p>
<p>Haha, I know! I take Japanese and my friend takes Spanish and we were talking about where we were applying way back in October and she goes "Well, Hotchkiss, of course." And I started laughing. Pretty funny. And I hate Northfield Mount Hermon's name, even though I'm going. I think when they combined the schools they should have come up with a completely different name, or just chosen one, because it's way too long and when you just say NMH no one knows what you're talking about.</p>
<p>Hah, same here! Northfield Mount Hermon...just a bit too long. I was accepted as well! :D</p>
<p>I think Miss Hall's and Miss Porter's have a real old school sound to them that sometimes makes me think of cloistered privilege. My daughter went to a preschool that was a Miss xxx, and I always ended up saying it with an English accent when I told people where she went.<br>
Scattergood Friends in Iowa sounds like a nice place, not so haughty!</p>
<p>If I was picking by names alone, for me and not my D, I like the names Idlewyld and Storm King. They sound arty and laid back.</p>
<p>By the way, I don't know anything about these schools, just talking names.</p>
<p>haha i know this thread has basically died but...
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY (:
seriously, i thought it was a joke when i first saw the name.</p>