<p>Just checking - do you wear your pride and school support, for either yourself or your student(s), on your rear window?</p>
<p>Yes, afraid so: the honor roll bumperstickers from middle school, the private school bumpersticker, the high school decal, and the college sticker–none for me, just for all the schools my children are attending/have attended. I figure, if I have to drive a big van I might as well explain why…</p>
<p>Yes, D’s college sticker. But her #2 college still has a magnet on the refrigerator.</p>
<p>D’s college sticker.</p>
<p>No, that is simply not done where we live. </p>
<p>Fridge magnet yes. Sweatshirts, tshirts and shorts for all alma maters and current schools, yes.</p>
<p>No college car window decals here.</p>
<p>We have fridge magnet, sweatshirts and t-shirts.
Little sister has several articles of clothing from big brother. Dad has a hat.</p>
<p>Nah. Funny, one of my very first posts on cc, I remember, was confessing that I had decal fever and wanted very badly for my D to get into a Prestigious University. Having gone through all of this, I have risen from my sick bed and now am glad she is happy and in the right place for her. And I am trying to prepare myself for S to matriculate at some very different place without my freaking out. So ironically, no decal. D even bought me a license plate frame for Xmas. Still haven’t put it on. Might not do it unless she really wants me to…</p>
<p>We do have the sticker from the private HS in the window, and a very small “D” sticker in the lower corner. H also has our alma mater sticker on the window of one of the cars, although it’s certainly not a Prestigious University – we just have fond memories.</p>
<p>Yes, car decal for son’s college. </p>
<p>I figure it’s free advertising; most people in Minnesota haven’t heard of Washington University in St. Louis. Plus I’m proud of him.</p>
<p>Yulsie, do you have one for Oxford?</p>
<p>I was going to put a decal from S1’s university onto my rear window, but then I wondered how S2 would feel if he didn’t get in (since that’s where he wants to go, too). </p>
<p>But, if I wait until S2 has settled on a school, S1 will have already graduated. What’s a mother to do?</p>
<p>Here’s what we have or have not done. When the kids went to the accepted student days and decided to attend the school, that is when they went into the bookstore and got a sweatshirt, tee shirt, mug and car decal…it was sort of, FINALLY, I know where I am going…gotta get something. So for D1, I put the decal on my car and she put one on hers and gave one to dad. Dad never put it on his and she felt rather insulted by that and he was like, I don’t like putting things on my car!~ but we’re like…school pride, ya know?? Everyone has some kind of college sticker on their car if they are parents around here, lol. So, he did. </p>
<p>Second child gets into college one year after first kid. Same thing on accepted student day…get same sort of memorabilia…finally (never were willing to on regular college visits). Get three car decals again. So, I go to put hers on my car and after a while, I realize it is not the kind that sticks onto the window like the ones for Brown did. This one (for NYU and one for Tisch) are like static type that you are to put on the inside of the window. I tried that on my car and I couldn’t see the sticker through the tinted rear window! Not sure it I was looking at it in enough light but it was ridiculous, so I took it off. Well, just to show how after the initial excitement, we all forgot about it and the three NYU and Tisch car decals are still sitting here not adorning our vehicles. I should look at this again (it is almost a year later, lol) because I feel funny that we are driving around with only Brown stickers for one kid and nothing for the other kid but nobody even pays attention in our family or cares. It was more like the frenzy of the accepted student Open House and we “gotta get something that says our school name now to make it real”. It kinda died down since then. So, I have these NYU/Tisch stickers and I have no idea even if I do put them on, how you can SEE them. I liked the Brown kind better! </p>
<p>By the way, our HS did not have those bumper stickers about Honor Students, etc. Not sure our kids would be into that sort of thing.</p>
<p>The high school Music Booster sticker does a nice job of covering up one of the dings I put in my own bumper :D.</p>
<p>I had waffled on the subject of the college decals until I found myself feeling undying gratitude to Bates College as DS’ Katrina host school. I planned to put the Bates and Tulane decals one atop the other in the rear window. Tulane’s axing of Engineering deflated that emotion. </p>
<p>But… never say die. We’ll see where the transfer wars take us and maybe I’ll make room for 3 decals (one son, 3 schools; I never did want to have only one child 
). I still <em>heart</em> Tulane and New Orleans, despite it all.</p>
<p>hmmm… maybe I ought to add UNH for gS. I need a bigger windshield. Would that be a reason to go for the Hummer?</p>
<p>I don’t have a car, and try to have the least amount of school brand items as possible.</p>
<p>I have daughter’s Rice/Shepherd School sticker, Wild Child’s prep school sticker and a small IU for me! I’ve gotten good at removing stickers from the bumper as Wild Child has cycled through schools! I actually own a sticker for Wild Child’s ED school, but haven’t put it on yet.</p>
<p>We proudly display both kids’ magnetic window decals. One is a “name” OOS public that no one around here ever thinks of attending, and the other is a name that nobody knows. We get lots of comments… ;)</p>
<p>Stickers are required in our neighborhood. As we walk around the block I will call out a college name and my wife will tell me whose car it is and which kid attends that particular college. A bit of confusion the other day; sticker on rear window indicated exclusive LAC attended by friend’s son, but I suggested it was more likely the daughter’s car, because parking sticker from other exclusive LAC was a better indicator of where the car actually resides.</p>
<p>Wife has stickers for S’s college and her(our) grad school. I don’t go for that crap, and was very annoyed when my parking garage made me put a little sticker on my window.</p>
<p>I’m curious, do Harvard attendees or alums put decals on their cars or is there a stigma attached in the same way that I’ve read that Harvard students hem and haw when asked where they go to school?</p>
<p>I have a Cal sticker for S on the van, although he thinks it’s silly and rolls his eyes whenever he comes home and sees it. And swimming and junior lifeguard stickers for D, who’s still in h.s. No stickers for H and my alma maters. </p>
<p>Around here, it’s probably less common to see the college stickers but very common to see elementary through h.s. stickers on cars. And lots of those little stick figure families that indicate how many parents, boys, girls, cats, dogs, etc… in the family.</p>
<p>Decals for both colleges on my car and the kids’ car. It makes it easy to pick out which silver SUV is mine in the parking lot.
My friend proudly displays a Harvard sticker for her S.</p>
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<p>We don’t as Harvard parents, and D doesn’t have a car. I do have a license plate frame that proclaims my own school –> State U. We do, however, have some H t-shirts, and D has a bunch of H-wear.</p>
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<p>Telling people that you or your kid goes to Harvard can be a delicate thing; it’s called “dropping the H-bomb” because it can sometimes stop a conversation in its tracks. Some H people avoid answering the question to avoid unpleasant reactions. Most people seem to be okay with it, but others automatically take it as boasting and are offended – even though if you had said say “UCLA” with exactly the same voice and tone, they would have thought it was all perfectly nice. So I don’t put on any decals for fear that someone would have the same negative reaction and be suddenly motivated to vandalize the car just to teach its owners some sort of lesson.</p>