<p>Have a Princeton license surround. Covers me, daughter, son. I would not have put it there, due to all the cited shame about bragging reasons, but my daughter gave it to me for Christmas one year. Layers upon layers of pride, embarrassment, pride, embarrassment. Embarrassment about my pride, if you will.</p>
<p>It’s very tempting I know, because everyone here has a huge right to be proud, and part of me would love to indulge…I do think that it is more acceptable on a less ostentatious car. There is something about an elite college sticker on an ultra luxury car that seems pretty darn smug.</p>
<p>In our area, college stickers are everywhere. We find it fun to see cars with stickers for lesser-known schools where my kids applied – they usually give the driver a thumbs up!</p>
<p>I have the HS stickers (my kids attended different schools) in the rear side window and the college in the back. Both cars are 11 yo well-traveled Hondas, so it’s clear we don’t have $$ for snazzy cars and snazzy college.</p>
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<p>You can practice saying “Harvard” the same way you’d say “Ohio State” until you’re blue in the face, but you can’t do a darn thing about the way some folks will hear you!</p>
<p>As for the bragging, I hope that if I put a college sticker next to my Washington Nationals sticker, people will know I’m not doing it to brag!</p>
<p>I couldn’t resist my “Love an animal…Hug a hockey player” sticker. I dare anyone to mess with a hockey player.</p>
<p>H and I never put any stickers or decals on our cars, but when we were college visiting, the bookstore had "NYUmom and NYUdad car decals, daughter’s dream and reach school. We bought them,but would only put them on our cars if daughter got in and ended up going, needless to say they are now on our cars.</p>
<p>When our cars were newer, I resisted stickers too. I still won’t do bumper stickers,only small window ones. Now that my non-luxury Toyota is nine years old,I think the stickers give it a little character.</p>
<p>For sticker removal…plug up your hairdryer in the garage, set it on the hottest setting and blow it on the sticker. The heat will melt/soften the sticky adhesive and you can pull it right off. Then get the sticky stuff off the window using Goo Gone on and a rag…comes right off.</p>
<p>blankmind: where did you get that? my daughter would LOVE that for her car.!!!</p>
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<p>True. My model was “UCLA” - a fine school but not one that will usually elicit big reactions. I’d try answer with just the same matter-of-fact tone as if my daughter were attending UCLA. But you’re right. No matter how I said it, some people were literally stunned into speechlessness when I said Harvard.</p>
<p>our windows except for the front are tinted so dark you can’t see them anyway- but we have stickers-
I have license plate holders from their high schools, a cling from my college( and a parking cling)- a gym parking cling, a sticker from where we vacation, a couple from my favorite band,and one from my older Ds college but I hadn’t gotten one from younger D’s school yet.
Oh & a Apple rainbow sticker from the olden days.</p>
<p>I like stickers- considering that I forget where I park, and that most everyone who has a Jeep like mine also has the same kind of roof and bike rack, they help me make sure I am breaking into the right car!</p>
<p>Ha ha Emeraldkity…I have a white MDX…a dime a dozen. My stickers help me identify my car, too :)</p>
<p>Another vote for the hockey player sticker - I gotta get one too! Could cover one of the rust spots!</p>
<p>I used to have a college sticker on my car. One day a lady was honking me and when I rolled down my window she began to ask me about an event that had happened on the campus that day. I noticed she had the same sticker on her car. lol</p>
<p>Since then, new car, no sticker but I do have a magnet with a peace sign with the town name on it. :)</p>
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<p>Is that so wrong, though? I’ve bought my kids college t-shirts when my work took me to college campuses. A friend of mine took her D on a whirlwind tour and wound up buying my kids a bunch of shirts from the campuses she visited, which included Harvard. My nieces have bought my kids t-shirts from their colleges as well. When we’re touring, we’ve bought the kids t-shirts from the school we toured if they were so inclined. I certainly don’t think there is a requirement that you be officially tied to a school to wear the t-shirt.</p>
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<p>Amen. If they don’t have the self-possession to say “Oh wow! Congratulations, I hope she enjoys herself there!” then screw 'em. People who can’t find geniune pleasure in other people’s happiness – or at least put on a decent show – aren’t worth the time of day.</p>
<p>My coffee shop has a young woman who works as a barista during college breaks. When asked where she goes to college she says: “Yale, in Connecticut.” I don’t know if that is because we are pretty backwards here, or if it is a very skillful way of not sounding like --of course you have heard of my terrific school. Anyway, it is both disarming and effective IF one were worried about sounding like he/she is bragging.</p>
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<p>Sure, it’s common for kids, including mine, to wear shirts from schools other than their own. But in this thread we are talking about what we parents do. Do you put stickers on your car or wear logo clothing from schools for which you have no affiliation? I sure don’t.</p>
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<p>Does she say it with upspeak? We used to have a friend who said she’d gone to “Princeton University? In New Jersey?”</p>
<p>Yes, we have college window decals on both DH & my cars, and on the car the kids share. Since DH, S and I all attended the same college (S is still there) it was an easy decision. Now D will be heading to another school, and I bought 3 stickers from her school so we can add one to each car. Just today I asked her when she thought we should put them on the cars. (She was accepted ED in Dec). She said she’ll put them on after her hs graduation. Sounds reasonable to me.</p>
<p>I’m not big on stickers on cars, but I do enjoy reading other people’s college stickers on their windows on long car rides. And like others have said, anything that helps me find my Camry in a parking lot is a good thing!</p>
<p>S & D share a 13 year old car that is showing its age. S has begun covering the rear bumper with stickers from the ski resorts he’s been to. Unfortunately, (perhaps being a guy) he just randomly stuck them on there, and they’re not all exactly straight. Oh well…</p>
<p>No, Sikorsky, no upspeak, but I can sure hear it in your quote.</p>