<p>By no means am I judging (any) of the schools by the name. I just started this thread for something to do. I would be very happy if my son could get into HMU. We will have to wait and see (next week) his latest SAT’s. As of now, he will not be applying.</p>
<p>What about the Purple Cows?</p>
<p>Doesn’t that name belong to Williams?</p>
<p>I’ve got a former student who thinks it’s so cool that she wanted to go online and buy purple cow stuffed animals.</p>
<p>Now, while I thought it was cute, my son, who is a junior, says he cannot bring himself to apply at Williams just because of the nickname.</p>
<p>Or is this a case that we live in the middle of nowhere and the cows outnumber the people in our county?</p>
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I didn’t think you were and it’s true that a name like ‘Harvey Mudd’ is a strange one. OTOH look at all the teens that’ll spend extra bucks to have the name ‘Mudd’ on the back of their jeans.</p>
<p>I know a few kids who were turned off by the name Ursinus.</p>
<p>I’ve heard radio advertisements for Hickey College. That one always gets to me.</p>
<p>My daughter has turned up her snout at Gonzaga.</p>
<p>Reed College produces fine woodwind musicians?</p>
<p>We found it interesting that several of the ‘St. Somebody’ schools aren’t overly religious. St. John’s College, for example- has nothing to do with a church or a saint.</p>
<p>Wittenberg…sigh..‘the wits’…why?? :@</p>
<p>College Misericordia does have a new name. It is now Misericordia University :). Misericordia means merciful heart, however, the students do have some other interesting names for it.</p>
<p>Ditto dragonmom-- we also used to crack up at Ball State-
just as we did whenever we drove past C*ck’s Lane, located the next town over. Probably a sign of permanent immaturity, but it’s still an address I’d rather not have…</p>
<p>My oldest Daughter attends Villa Julie, she has a t shirt that says “Villa What!?” and another with “The Villa” on it. It is a great school despite the name…</p>
<p>Ursinus===Your anus. What a terrible name for a school.</p>
<p>Wartburg College in Iowa is a lovely school but some are put off by the name!</p>
<p>Don’t forget the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs and their fight band the Banana Slug String band</p>
<p>Yep. Our family loved the idea of Slugs as a mascot.
Pomona has a catchy one, also. “Fight on, SageHens…”</p>
<p>The Muskingum Fighting Muskies!!!</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d say someone fell asleep at the switch on that one, LoL</p>
<p>I don’t think I saw it, but Slippery Rock.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd also was a charater in one or possibly two original Star Trek episodes (the Trekkies can tell you exactly).</p>
<p>Best of the bad college mascots has to be Evergreen (in Washington)… the Geoducks. If you don’t dig clams for a living, the geoduck (pronounced Gooey-duck) is a great big old clam with a phallus-like siphon that can be a foot or two long. It is great for chowder but obscene-looking. You don’t want to know the lyrics to the college fight song…</p>
<p>The University of Delaware Fighting Blue Hens (the what?) usually comes up about this time. When I was in school there a few decades ago, some campus group, as a joke, entered a chicken as a homecoming queen candidate. Guess who got the most student votes. Yep, at halftime of the football game, out came the candidates, including a little chicken coop with the “queen” inside. The president, a nice guy, put a crown on the coop. We students thought it was pretty funny, although I’m not sure everybody else did.</p>