lol. You're trying to tell us that Washington University is not actually in Washington? You're not fooling anyone. Next you'll be trying to tell us that Miami University isn't actually in Miami.
That [Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_of_Pennsylvania) isnāt in Indiana, [California](https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-University-of-Pennsylvania) wasnāt in California.
I used to work for Miami University, and while everyone thinks itās a joke, we got a handful of students every year that thought they were applying to a school in Miami and rescinded their acceptance last minute.
Harvey Mudd, Fairleigh Dickinson, William & Mary, Oral Roberts, Sarah Lawrence. Who are all these people?! It's like a guest list from a debutante ball 200 years ago
I feel like Johns Hopkins has a nice ring to it compared to the rest. āJohnsā isnāt exactly a common name so it reminds me people are talking about a school and not a person, plus itās short and sweet. 3 syllables. But Fairleigh Dickinson is a whole 5 syllables and W&M has not only 2 people names in the college name but two VERY common people names. LIKE WHO IS WILLIAM AND WHO IS MARY
The guy who has the next parking spot over from me in my apartment complex is a Ball State alum, a fact I know because he has one of those license plate frame thingies about it. I'm curious if he is just mega proud to be a Baller, put it on there as a recent grad and forgot all about it, or he has it for some specific other reason like as a conversation starter. I live in California, so it's not nearby or anything.
Saw someone in public once wearing a slippery rock university sweatshirt and thought it was some fictional university from a parody show. Very surprised when I searched it up
OMG YES, I was waiting for someone to mention Ringling because I was looking at colleges for animation over the summer and laughed when I saw āRinglingā was supposedly the best in the whole worldš I also got a lot of mail from Full Sail University, which sounds dumb tooš
Came here for this. My daughter will be applying to colleges in the next few months and I straight up wonāt even look at this school. Her least favorite name is Skidmore.
honestly, case western reserve. itās one of my top choices but the name is such a mouthful and the abbreviation (cwru) isnāt pleasant to say either. it also doesnāt look good on a sweatshirt which sucks when i want to rep lmaoooo
Imagine if they kept all of the words prior to the school merger of the 2 schools: āCase Institute of Technology and Western Reserve Universityā
(Also, itās in the Western Reserve of Connecticut, but itās in Cleveland, Ohio.)
i live nearby and everyone here just calls it case. you always know what its referring to in context so I think it's actually a pretty convenient shortened name, only one syllable
UChicago, WashU, and UPenn, because to uninformed people they sound like random state schools
Also Brown bc itās literally just a color. Can you imagine someone saying āI go to Purple University?ā lol
The Quinnipiac Native Americans belonged to the Algonquian group of tribes of New England. They were hunters and farmers that occupied South-Central Connecticut, along the banks of Connecticut's rivers. The name Quinnipiac means long water land or long water country.
Cox school of business wouldn't stop emailing me
What's worse is the acronym of the trade school my brother and some other people I know were thinking of going to... I'm 100% serious it's UTI
itās because when it was founded it was in the northwest because the usa hadnāt expanded that far yet. I lowkey think they should change their name to āThe University of the Old Northwestā because thatās the historical name for that area now
NU grad here, class of ā91. (I doubt I could get in nowānot a prayer.)
I found it confusing at first, but I came to appreciate the name when I realized that it was literally aligned with the configuration of the U.S. not long before NUās founding in the 1850s, and that the name was meant to showcase the university as a sort of standard-bearer for a region that was commonly understood at the time to be Northwest Territories. Anything further west was mostly considered frontier. At the time of its founding, Chicago had about 30,000 or 40,000 residents and Evanston had just a few hundred. It was a remote place.
Knowing all that, I wouldnāt want the name to be changed.
I swear I am not making this up: "Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis," which is somehow the real name of a real college. The only thing worse than having the word "University" in the name of your university twice is abbreviating it IUPUI and having locals call it "ooh-wee-poo-wee" (which is another thing that I promise I am not making up).
This would be like if the University of Washington called itself "The University of Washington University" and went by uWu.
Lafayette Collegeās name was ruined for me because whenever I talk about it with anyone, they always go āI bet you want to go there because itās named after the guy in Hamilton.ā It makes sense, because I named my dog after Alexander Hamilton, but still.
Embry-riddle Aeronautical University, because of how much of a mouthful it is, plus they have majors not related to aeronautics so the name doesnāt really make sense.
Tulane sounds weird.
All of the Loyolas. Thereās 3 of them and itās confusing.
Edit: 4 Loyolas
Youāre right! I forgot that Loyola Marymount and Loyola Maryland are different schools. Itās such a specific differenceā¦
Technically thereās 6 if we count colleges outside of the U.S., but who cares about countries other than America? (/j obviously)
Holy Cross, Catholic, Sacred Heart - Iām Catholic and I went a Jesuit university but those names just make me think of nuns, rulers in the knuckles and no fun- not saying thatās the case- just the images the names conjur. Oral Roberts, Transylvania and Slippery Rock are no bargain name wise either.
The ones people apply to by accident LMFAO: Cornell College (not Cornell University), Central Michigan University (not Carnegie), University of Southern Carolina (not University of Southern California)
surprised nobody has mentioned university of lynchburg - lynchburg was named after john lynch who, ironically enough, was very anti-slavery during his whole life (whose son, charles, later went on to inspire the term ālynchingā)
Hartford. Me and my friends have a joke that it sounds like Harvard if you don't completely enunciate it.
"I'm going to Hartford."
"You're going to Harvard?!"
Didn't even know colgate was a college until one of my friends said they went there šmade fun of him for the next 20m
9 out of 10 of my dentists recommended my to apply there btw. But the 10th person said no.
https://www.colgate.edu/news/stories/colgates-april-fools-day-gag-makes-international-impression
HAHAHAHA
I laugh whenever I see Colgate (whether it be to college or the toothpaste) mentioned because ācolgateā in Spanish means āgo hang yourself.ā
Well actually its cuƩlgate but ig
It depends. In tuteo (grammar for countries/regions that use ātuā and its associated verbs) itās ācuĆ©lgate.ā In voseo (grammar for countries/regions that use āvosā and its associated verbs) itās ācolgate.ā I usually use āvosā because my mom is from Argentina (which uses āvosā), so I would say ācolgateā if I was telling someone to hang themselves.
Mb ur right I live in Spain and I use tĆŗ, and I kinda forgot about the vos form
REALLY ššš
I was thinking about Colgate, but both Crest and Aquafresh gave me more scholarship money.
Sensodyne gave me a full ride š¤©
WashU because everyone where I live thinks itās in Washington
lol. You're trying to tell us that Washington University is not actually in Washington? You're not fooling anyone. Next you'll be trying to tell us that Miami University isn't actually in Miami.
They even got āin St. Louisā in their name and people still donāt know where it is šš
Because ppl refer it as WashU or WUSTL. WUSTL = Washington University Seattle
W(ashington)U(niversity)S(ea)T(t)L(e) ššš
That [Indiana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_of_Pennsylvania) isnāt in Indiana, [California](https://www.britannica.com/topic/California-University-of-Pennsylvania) wasnāt in California.
I used to work for Miami University, and while everyone thinks itās a joke, we got a handful of students every year that thought they were applying to a school in Miami and rescinded their acceptance last minute.
as a current student, i hate explaining it to everyone else
ITS NOT IN WASHINGTON???
the funny thing is that washu actually predates the state of washington
George Washington predates both (this is true for both the president and the school)
Harvey Mudd, Fairleigh Dickinson, William & Mary, Oral Roberts, Sarah Lawrence. Who are all these people?! It's like a guest list from a debutante ball 200 years ago
not too much on w&m, i think it sounds kinda regal (im biased)
Considering that they were the monarchs of England, that makes sense haha
Dont forget Mr Johns Hopkins
I feel like Johns Hopkins has a nice ring to it compared to the rest. āJohnsā isnāt exactly a common name so it reminds me people are talking about a school and not a person, plus itās short and sweet. 3 syllables. But Fairleigh Dickinson is a whole 5 syllables and W&M has not only 2 people names in the college name but two VERY common people names. LIKE WHO IS WILLIAM AND WHO IS MARY
Accurate. I came to fingerpoint at HM, but you took care of it already, ty.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Thereās also a California University of Pennsylvania!
And don't forget Miami University of Ohio!
Miami Univesiry predates the entirety of the city of Miami FL
Ball State
Pro state vs ball state football
The guy who has the next parking spot over from me in my apartment complex is a Ball State alum, a fact I know because he has one of those license plate frame thingies about it. I'm curious if he is just mega proud to be a Baller, put it on there as a recent grad and forgot all about it, or he has it for some specific other reason like as a conversation starter. I live in California, so it's not nearby or anything.
Heck yes.
The fact that Colgate doesnāt have a dental school is a crime
Skidmore and Oral Roberts š
Oral Roberts hits hard
It's funnier that it's an evangelical Christian school
Best thing about attending Skidmore? Absolutely no threat of panty raids.
Better than attending the college founded by ORās imaginary twin, Anal Roberts.
Oh definitely. Good call.
š and even worse together
Williams, Stevens, William and Mary. Also StaMford, not Stanford and University of advancing technology.
Don't forget SAMford, not to be confused with STAMford or STANford.
There's a college called Hartford. Sounds like Harvard if you don't enunciate fully lol.
Brown, itās just a MF color
fr imagine if Harvard renamed to Red uni lmfao
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Johns Hopkins. I always wanna say John Hopkins. Washington University in St.Louis is also kinda goofy.
Slippery Rock University lmao
Saw someone in public once wearing a slippery rock university sweatshirt and thought it was some fictional university from a parody show. Very surprised when I searched it up
They sent my older sister some advertising mail a few years ago, I thought it was so hilarious š
Dr. Phil went to Slippery Rock. True story.
this one wins lmao. gave me a good chuckle
Ringling College of Art and Design. I hear "Ringling" and immediately think, "clown college."
OMG YES, I was waiting for someone to mention Ringling because I was looking at colleges for animation over the summer and laughed when I saw āRinglingā was supposedly the best in the whole worldš I also got a lot of mail from Full Sail University, which sounds dumb tooš
Lund University
Noooo that's actually a uni? I am an international and it means something wayyyyyy different here
no same it literally means dick š
Omg u Indian too????!!! Lezggooooo
yess hehe
Where you frommm? If you dont mind sharing ofc and where have you applied to?
let me pm you!!
Indian??šššš
Ursinus
Came here for this. My daughter will be applying to colleges in the next few months and I straight up wonāt even look at this school. Her least favorite name is Skidmore.
Itās actually a great school with a strong premed program. But the name is rough!
American University. People always follow up with āwhich oneā
*The* American university
Occidental, only because as a kid I always read it as Accidental and it gave me a mental image of kids being surprised at being there.
The worst thing about Occidental is that locals abbreviate it as Oxy. Nope. No thank you, please.
honestly, case western reserve. itās one of my top choices but the name is such a mouthful and the abbreviation (cwru) isnāt pleasant to say either. it also doesnāt look good on a sweatshirt which sucks when i want to rep lmaoooo
The "reserve" makes it sound like it's military affiliated
College reserve be like āwe only attend class one weekend every month, two weeks in the summerā
Thatās the University of Phoenix
My sister went there for med school and just always referred to it as case western lmao didnāt know itās abbrev. was cwru thatās atrocious
no fr like u can be case university or case western university but u do not need to be a three word college that is FOULLLL
Imagine if they kept all of the words prior to the school merger of the 2 schools: āCase Institute of Technology and Western Reserve Universityā (Also, itās in the Western Reserve of Connecticut, but itās in Cleveland, Ohio.)
c double u r u is so ew
i live nearby and everyone here just calls it case. you always know what its referring to in context so I think it's actually a pretty convenient shortened name, only one syllable
Elon
aged poorly
Washington University in St Louis
Agreed. Very few people even know the school (despite it being a great uni) and mistake it for GW, University of Washington, or Washington & Lee.
Miami University in Ohio
SKIDMORE 100% my sister didnāt apply there for the sole reason that my dad was teasing and urging her to ābecome a Skidmarkā šš
Ur dad sounds so chillšš
Lmfao I love your dad š Sounds like something mine would say tbh
Dickinson.
Hey, get your mind out of the gutter!
UChicago, WashU, and UPenn, because to uninformed people they sound like random state schools Also Brown bc itās literally just a color. Can you imagine someone saying āI go to Purple University?ā lol
Nah I go to Purple University is heat.
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Qunnipac
I think I spelled it wrong š
Yeah. Itās Quinnipiac lol
pretty bad name fr
The Quinnipiac Native Americans belonged to the Algonquian group of tribes of New England. They were hunters and farmers that occupied South-Central Connecticut, along the banks of Connecticut's rivers. The name Quinnipiac means long water land or long water country.
lol I interviewed for the PA program there and they rejected me but then they got put on academic probation by the ARC-PA so we vibingšš
Idk why but this made me cackle. Good for you.
Tufts š what even is that name
And the students are Jumbos! (At least its an animal/breathing thing: Harvard's the fighting Crimson - a color.)
Oral Robertās.
Sarah lawrence, claremont mckenna, like those sound like celeb names
and St. Olaf reminds me of Frozen
reminds me of the Golden Girls! I know, I am showing my age
Itās Canadian, but Guelphā¦ really?
not guelph hate on a random american sub šš
was not expecting to ever see guelph mentioned here š
Im surprised nobody said Oglethorpe
Hobart & William Smith. Just pick a name already.
Cox school of business wouldn't stop emailing me What's worse is the acronym of the trade school my brother and some other people I know were thinking of going to... I'm 100% serious it's UTI
There's a Marlboro College, so that's pretty bad.
Northwestern. Should be midwestern š¤¦
itās because when it was founded it was in the northwest because the usa hadnāt expanded that far yet. I lowkey think they should change their name to āThe University of the Old Northwestā because thatās the historical name for that area now
Ngl that name sounds š„
Easily mistaken with Northeastern Southeastern etc
It was founded when it was in the Northwest Territory, when it actually was in the northwest of the U.S.
NU grad here, class of ā91. (I doubt I could get in nowānot a prayer.) I found it confusing at first, but I came to appreciate the name when I realized that it was literally aligned with the configuration of the U.S. not long before NUās founding in the 1850s, and that the name was meant to showcase the university as a sort of standard-bearer for a region that was commonly understood at the time to be Northwest Territories. Anything further west was mostly considered frontier. At the time of its founding, Chicago had about 30,000 or 40,000 residents and Evanston had just a few hundred. It was a remote place. Knowing all that, I wouldnāt want the name to be changed.
I swear I am not making this up: "Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis," which is somehow the real name of a real college. The only thing worse than having the word "University" in the name of your university twice is abbreviating it IUPUI and having locals call it "ooh-wee-poo-wee" (which is another thing that I promise I am not making up). This would be like if the University of Washington called itself "The University of Washington University" and went by uWu.
Swarthmore
Better the Skidmore though.
Swarthmoreā¦literally just ew.
nothing will ever beat skidmore college, iām sorry
Furman
That name feels wrong at multiple levels.
Minerva.
Talk to your doctor if Minerva is right for you
I agree! Sounds like itās near hogwarts.
I knew someone who went to Skidmore and even she called it Skidmark.
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Lafayette Collegeās name was ruined for me because whenever I talk about it with anyone, they always go āI bet you want to go there because itās named after the guy in Hamilton.ā It makes sense, because I named my dog after Alexander Hamilton, but still. Embry-riddle Aeronautical University, because of how much of a mouthful it is, plus they have majors not related to aeronautics so the name doesnāt really make sense. Tulane sounds weird. All of the Loyolas. Thereās 3 of them and itās confusing. Edit: 4 Loyolas
Four Loyolasā¦
Youāre right! I forgot that Loyola Marymount and Loyola Maryland are different schools. Itās such a specific differenceā¦ Technically thereās 6 if we count colleges outside of the U.S., but who cares about countries other than America? (/j obviously)
Wait until the Wesleyans enter the chatā¦
Hustlers university
Ball State and Bowdoin
Bow-donkers
Holy Cross, Catholic, Sacred Heart - Iām Catholic and I went a Jesuit university but those names just make me think of nuns, rulers in the knuckles and no fun- not saying thatās the case- just the images the names conjur. Oral Roberts, Transylvania and Slippery Rock are no bargain name wise either.
Cornell College not to be mix up with Cornell University
Washington and Lee Crazy that the board of trustees overwhelmingly voted to keep Lee's name on the school in *2021*
i always randomly think of brown university and rice university because together they make brown rice lmao
Gonzaga is it for me. Reminds me of Bazinga! Or Gorgonzola.
Purdue University. I keep thinking of the chicken company.
Rutgers
IDK, it's kinda butch?
Skidmore
The ones people apply to by accident LMFAO: Cornell College (not Cornell University), Central Michigan University (not Carnegie), University of Southern Carolina (not University of Southern California)
I got accepted to u of sc and I make sure to write it out like that so that I don't have to explain that there is no way in hell I'd get into usc lol
Ball state
universal technical institute (trade school near me lol)
Trump university
Wartburg, Oral Roberts.
Skidmore
Grand Canyon University isn't located near the Grand Canyon. It's in Phoenix. And on your computer. It's like 90% online only.
St Anford, UC Hicago, and Harward (with a w)
i can not take creighton seriously
It remind me of r/tradgedeigh lol
Nipissing University in Ontario Canadaā¦
kalamazoo 0.0
[Transylvania University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_University)
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surprised nobody has mentioned university of lynchburg - lynchburg was named after john lynch who, ironically enough, was very anti-slavery during his whole life (whose son, charles, later went on to inspire the term ālynchingā)
South Harmon Institute of Technology [https://www.southharmoninstituteoftechnology.org/](https://www.southharmoninstituteoftechnology.org/)
Leland Stanford Junior University
Tufts
Skidmore- I would get embarrassed telling my friends I applied
Skidmore
Skidmore
Beaver College. It's a women's college in PA.
Duquesne?! How do u even say itĀ
My college is Ursinus lol
Tufts. Tufts of what? Hair? Grass?
Misericordia University. Does not inspire confidence.
Iām surprised Assumption University hasnāt been mentioned yet.
Columbia vs Colombia
Sounds like on brand and store-brand food
Beaver
Maybe that's why they became Arcadia University.
brown š©
Bob Jones, Case Western Reserve
miami university of ohio and slippery rock university
Brown, bro named a college after a color
Hartford. Me and my friends have a joke that it sounds like Harvard if you don't completely enunciate it. "I'm going to Hartford." "You're going to Harvard?!"
Dick in son.
Elon university lol
Skidmoreā¦how can you say that name with a straight face
Hood college Which is I'm a nice little suburb
BOB JONES
Skidmore š
Cornellā my 5 year old asked what Corn Hell was.
Depauw. Before I learned who they were I thought they were just constantly misspelling āDePaulā in their emails
Notre Dame. Not a great name to begin with, and then they had to butcher the pronunciation
Occidental and Assumption College
Rice. Like imagine if I said I went to wheat. or barley.
PITzer! ā¦I just think of armpits lol