<p>I was at the grocery store yesterday and a woman stopped me in the parking lot to comment that her daughter was a recent grad of my kids’ day school. We got talking about college and it was fun and informative. My question is, once my kid decides where he’s going to college how soon can I put a sticker on? haha.</p>
<p>I’m all for college decals! It’s no different than any other branding you may be pleased about or proud of. My girls worked hard to get in to their colleges, why not let the community know!</p>
<p>And I think it’s good parenting to put a sticker of their college on your car, shows them you’re proud of them! We live in our times, and in these times everyone advertises their kids successes so participating in that advertising is important to your kid.</p>
<p>dke: I put the university sticker on her car about a week after she was accepted in early November. She complained that it was cocky, especially since most of her classmates had to wait until March to know where they’re going. However, she didn’t take the sticker off.</p>
<p>teriwtt, what a great story! It almost made me consider putting on a sticker for D1’s school. Almost. :)</p>
<p>I did ask D1 if she wanted a window cling for the car that she drives to school for her ED school, citing the “strangers who are alums or students or parents of students will be able to tell you cool stuff” rationale. She said no, that too many other students are still waiting on admissions decisions. Maybe in the summer. Or not.</p>
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<p>Was there supposed to be a winking smiley after this?</p>
<p>In my neighborhood we’ve got a lot of USC and UCLA stickers on cars, but I like the parent who puts the JC sticker in their back window, there’s a parent who supports their kid! It’s not the name of the school, it’s the fact that you care what they are doing.</p>
<p>Right now I’d be happy with one that just said COLLEGE (remember Animal House?)</p>
<p>What a cool story!</p>
<p>I recently went out with some friends to the Seal Beach Pier. I do have a Sonoma State sticker on my car (they gave all the Orientation Leaders free clings last summer…hello, free $15 sticker!), but one of my friends was driving. I WAS, however, wearing one of my many SSU sweatshirts. We decided to go for Cold Stone. There was only one girl working in the store. As I told her what she wanted, she looks at me and says, “Oh! You go to Sonoma State?”</p>
<p>I looked at her, stunned for a minute because NO ONE in SoCal knows where Sonoma is, before blurting out, “Um…yeah?”</p>
<p>She responds, “Oh cool! I live up north and come down here to go to CSULB!”</p>
<p>Interesting how everyone from up there comes down, and vice versa (at least that’s how it always seems).</p>
<p>I like the “supporting your kid” dynamic, I just don’t like the bumper-sticker mentality. My brother got into his first choice (Stanford) and promptly put 3 stickers on the car, plus one on each of my parents’ cars - they’re both alums and neither had one before. I live in an area that is very label whorish, both in terms of clothes etc but also with schools. So I think it can be a bit much at times.</p>
<p>I do think they can be fun at times - one of my friends’ moms came to pick me up for something when I was younger and still needed rides places, and asked me if my parents had gone to forestry school. :)</p>
<p>Last Winter my car had to be repaired after a random car slid into it, and in the process my daughter’s college sticker vanished. Since then, she’s had a change of heart of major and school, so decided to re-apply to music school. This week was orientation for the January kids and so she is now transferred to her new school (Berklee in Boston). After the parent orientation my H and I happily bought new window cling-ons to show our support and she was thrilled. I won’t mention that she was even more thrilled once we left Boston. :)</p>
<p>I live in So Cal and am hoping to transfer to Sonoma… I have had people ask me what country it is in. seriously.</p>
<p>I know stickers/decals/clings can be a mixed bag. Some police officers can be unhappy with particular schools/Us and I have heard and don’t doubt that they ticket to reflect it–they are human and this is their way of “getting back.” Our kids know we’re proud, but we don’t have anything on our cars & neither do the kids. We do have some logo clothing, which we’re happy to wear; they do too. S finally bought a mug that says “USC Class of 2010,” when it went on sale in the fall, just before he flew out of LA in August.</p>
<p>I once wanted to buy a plane ticket to Montana and the airline ticket agent said “What country is that? We only fly in the US.” (Of course, I found another airline.)</p>
<p>While my son was in college, we enjoyed having his college <em>with sport</em> on the car. We were able to spot teammates, alumni, other parents etc as we traveled around the east coast to games. Also good in the vast tailgating parking lots to know you were parking next to friends.</p>
<p>I remember reading a book called Class, by a UPenn English professor named Paul Fussell, back in the '80s. It contained a very witty and astute chapter on colleges and universities, including a letter (made-up, I assume) from a mother, concerned because as soon as her son was admitted to Stanford, he took the window decal, cut it up, rearranged the letters, and pasted it on the family car so as to spell SNODFART. Fussell gave him credit not only for having achieved the ranks of the educational elite, but also for not taking the whole thing too seriously.</p>
<p>No, I don’t really know what my point is, either.</p>
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<p>A random post. One day, as I was driving around Lake Union, I spotted a shiny, sporty Mercedes with some Cougar stickers, personalized Cougar license plate, and, to top it all of, the license number read “BEAT UW”. Yup, this person is definitely not afraid to show his school pride in the middle of Husky territory.</p>