The Ultimate Personality Awards

The Princeton Review may have released its college rankings, but Campus Progress has some of its own.

By Emily Rutherford
July 29, 2009

Every summer, the higher education world is abuzz with excitement as Princeton Review releases its annual college rankings (reg. required). The largest amount of discussion tends to centered on the awardee of top "Party School," a dubious honor garnered this year by Pennsylvania State University, and the accuracy of which the university’s spokespeople were quick to question. Everyone, of course, want to see their schools top the positive lists ("Best College Library," "Lots of Race/Class Interaction") and be absent from the negative lists ("Least Accessible Professors," "Dorms Like Dungeons"). But the greatest fault in the Princeton Review rankings is that they don’t include many important characteristics to consider when rating colleges. To fill in some of Princeton Review’s gaps, Campus Progress submits some additional rankings for every prospective student’s consideration:

Most Resembles a Military Academy

1. United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)
2. United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
3. United States Air Force Academy (USAF Academy, CO)
4. United States Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT)
5. United States Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point, NY)

Most Likely to Be in New York City

1. New York University (New York, NY)
2. City University of New York (New York, NY)
3. City College of New York (New York, NY)
4. Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
5. Queens College (Flushing, NY)
6. Yeshiva University (New York, NY)
7. Cooper Union (New York, NY)
8. The New School (New York, NY)
9. Barnard College (New York, NY)
10. Columbia University (New York, NY)

Most Likely to Not Be in New York City

1. New York University-Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
2. Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
3. The College of New Jersey (Ewing, NJ)
4. Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ)
5. Walla Walla University (Walla Walla, WA)
6. Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)
7. California State University-Stanislaus (Turlock, CA)
8. University of Hawaii-Hilo (Hilo, HI)
9. University of the Ozarks (Clarksville, AR)
10. Deep Springs College (Big Pine, CA)

Most Bizarre Mascot

1. Battling Bishop, Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH)
2. {} (empty set), New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)
3. Sammy the Banana Slug, University of California-Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
4. The Fighting Okra, Delta State University (Cleveland, MS)
5. Boll Weevil, University of Arkansas-Monticello (Fayetteville, AR)
6. Demon in a Blue Suit, DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
7. Mingus the Jazz Cat, Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA)
8. The Stanford Tree, Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
9. The Quaker Man, Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)
10. Willie the Wave, Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)

Most Innovative Name

1. The New School for General Studies (New York, NY)
2. The New School for Social Research (New York, NY)
3. Parsons The New School for Design (New York, NY)
4. Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy (New York, NY)
5. Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (New York, NY)
6. Mannes College The New School for Music (New York, NY)
7. The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (New York, NY)
8. The New School for Drama (New York, NY)
9. New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)
10. New York University (New York, NY)

Cutest Couple

1. College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
2. Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
3. Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
4. Hobart and William Smith Colleges (Geneva, NY)
5. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Andrews Air Force Base, MD)

Emily Rutherford is an editorial intern and staff writer at Campus Progress. She will be a sophomore at Princeton University. Follow her on Twitter.

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Comments

1. I love this but I think you missed a good one for the “most bizarre mascot” catagory: The Geoduck (http://www.evergreen.edu/athletics/geoduck.htm), The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA.

   — Shelley - Jul 30, 10:42 AM - #
   
   

2. haha, very funny, but the Banana Slugs deserve to be at the top of the mascot ranking.

   — Tommaso - Jul 30, 11:28 AM - #
   
   

3. this is absolutely stupid. THis is how you become an intern CP? Im mad I read this…Im even madder that I wasted my time commenting oin this rubish.

   — thefuq - Jul 30, 02:49 PM - #
   
   

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