The Dishonor Roll

100 signs your college isn't prestigious

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1. Courses offered in class, online, and drive-thru

2. Marching band uses only hand claps

3. Your school advertises on urinal cakes

4. Founded in 1979 as a Fotomat

5. Student bookstore has a curtained-off adult section

6. Counseling Services is a candy dish of Adderall

7. Diplomas are written in crayon on the back of used Sizzler place mats

8. Faculty restaffed daily with illegal immigrants brought in by pickup truck

9. Community-service requirement is handing out half-off fliers in front of competing college

10. Bursar's office accepts only wire transfers

11. The swim team uniform is cutoff jeans and a shark-tooth necklace

12. Endowment: whatever happens to be in the treasurer's coin purse

13. Most famous alumnus is the inventor of the "cheese inside the crust" pizza

14. Quad located in the median strip of the New Jersey Turnpike

15. Founder's plaque reads "Established This Many Fingers Ago" 

16. Your mascot is a tiger in a wheelchair

17. Campus has its own Green Zone

18. Corey Feldman awarded honorary degree three years running

19. Financial aid package consists of $10 and a pack of smokes

20. You attend Harbard, Yole, or Pranceton

21. Classes are frequently interrupted by sound of goats fighting on the roof

22. Commencement ceremony is a live feed from a better school's commencement ceremony

23. Acceptance letters are sent to student's name "Or Current Resident"

24. Half of all student groups are devoted to tanning

25. Dorms double as conjugal visit trailers




































 


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