<p>I wear T-shirts from my son’s high school and get in the greatest conversations. I also wear a hoodie regularly from Emory, but I didn’t go there; I lived there for a month during the Atlanta Olympics. I don’t even have a T-shirt (that still fits) from my own alma mater.</p>
<p>At son’s school EA/ED acceptees do not wear their school’s clothes until after RD if ever. Anywhere else is fine with me.</p>
<p>Its just a shirt… if I wore a Pats shirt, would you condemn me because they’re such an elite football team?</p>
<p>Geepers - our collection of college gear rivals our sports teams - and we wear it all with pride 
LOL… let’s see…</p>
<p>My alma mater (hey - it took me 20 years to get that dang thing!!! :D</p>
<p>My guys elite LAC - his great Grad school(s x2) - his elete LAC job - his IVY job</p>
<p>My gals tier 2 college</p>
<p>OK - gotta add those awesome RED SOX - and don’t forget those amazing PATRIOTS!!!</p>
<p>They all represent a piece of my life - and I have no problem showing the world what is behind the success of all of us - and the happiness that they represent also 
And yup - several are the results of college book store holiday/birthday shopping sprees ROFL - And the travel coffee cup that I have is well used as well.</p>
<p>You would hate my husband, he was in Steve and Barry’s and they had college labeled Tshirts for $3.99. He bought several. As long as he likes the school and the color he does not care. They are great conversation starters and they are perfect for running errands on Saturday afternoons.</p>
<p>A friend of mine cut up a Stanford sticker and put it on his car, so that it read
STAN
FORD,
sort of like the local dealer
Campus
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<p>Well, in that case, I guess it would be ok for me to wear clothes that illustrate how awesomely smart I am. I’m thinking a simple white t-shirt with, “145 IQ” written in bold letters…back and front of course. I mean, I did pay my therapist 3K (though insurance covered it) for the tests, so that must justify my desire to show off…correct?</p>
<p>There’s a fine line between being proud and being a tool. It’s like the soccer moms who paste “My child was student of the month at [insert elementary school here]” on the back of their minivans. </p>
<p>When I go to school, I don’t intend on ever wearing my college shirts unless necessary or I have nothing else in the closet.</p>
<p>I’m sure most of you sense my jealousy, and I’ll admit there is some unreasoned animosity, but you can’t possible shut me down with “it’s no big deal.”</p>
<p>I ask you this, why do you go out of your way to wear these shirts? Is it out of loyalty? Pride? Perhaps the prestige that comes with attending an elite school? Maybe it makes you feel superior to those who didn’t attend Harvard or MIT?? </p>
<p>I’m sure my feelings will change if and when I go to college, but for now I can’t help but be bitter.</p>
<p>mathwiz, I would condemn you for wearing a Pats shirt.</p>
<p>Signed,
Sad Cowboys fan.</p>
<p>Give Harvard guy a break. It may or may not be his school but I would find it hard to believe someone would choose their shirt to impress others in a grocery store! My family wears our sch. shirts all time.
Lots of people in our area wear shirts from schools that they have no connection to whatsoever except that they like their winning basketball teams.</p>
<p>My H wont put stickers on his car because it is “pristine” :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But I have a gym parking sticker and an old school ( rainbow) Apple sticker on my front windshield.
On a side window I have a goat sticker from the country store where we vacation & on my back windshield I have a WOOF ( I have a lab) sticker, several Pearl Jam stickers and a college cling on.
On my bumper I have an Obama sticker and my license plate holder is from my daughters high school.
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<p>The analogy is incorrect! Harvard isn’t only a holding pen for people with IQs above a certain number. It stands for a far deal more than that. </p>
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Are you saying that you can be proud of an achievement only as long as it is not too GREAT of an achievement? For example, you can publicly proclaim acceptance to PSU but not to UPenn?</p>
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Why are you attributing their wardrobe decisions to “going out of their way”? They are not going out of their way. They need to wear a t-shirt to go outside, and grabbed one with the word Harvard on it. Not everyone who wears a Harvard tee spends 5 hours in front of the mirror before going outside, planning out the best way to show off his college acceptances and boos their egos. Would it be “going out of their way” for students from a third tier school to wear shirts from their schools?</p>
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Maybe they love their schools, yes the prestige and everything else about them?</p>
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Yep… maybe you will eventually get past your scorn of top schools and generalizations of people who choose to attend them… also, maybe you’ll eventually get over your jealousy of people who go to there (which is coming across loud and clear)</p>
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<p>For one of my alma maters, it is easy to tell the wannabes. They wear “Oxford University” sweatshirts. No Oxford U. student that I know of would be caught dead in one - one wears the shirt (or scarf, or tie) of one’s college.</p>
<p>In my unfortunate case, it is pink and black.</p>
<p>Geepers - must be a tool here then - cuz I have 2 college stickers on my bumper - and Red Sox AND Patriots as well… uuuummm not about to clean up my act tho - cuz they are displayed with alot of PRIDE!! 
Hubby won’t allow stickers LOL - new pristine car also.</p>
<p>HSISOVERATED - go for it - if you don’t feel like you want to advertise anything on your back- or your front for that matter - well unless that IQ is something that you would really want to show to the world - ahem - then don’t - but others will freely do so - no matter what you may think. For some folks - it is ONLY something to wear and nothing more :)</p>
<p>If something is a source of pride - you don’t wear it to be snide :D</p>
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<p>OOO you poor thing MINI</p>
<p>YOUDON’TSAY - aawwwwwwwwww :(</p>
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I honestly wouldn’t say I go out of my way to wear my college sweatshirt. It’s more like, “Hey, it’s a brisk fall day, and this is warm and soft. I think I’ll wear it!” I think of it as any other piece of clothing.</p>
<p>While some people may hope for and even expect some admiration for wearing a Harvard tee, most people wear their college shirts for other reasons. And why isn’t it okay to feel proud anyway? Sure, I can understand not wearing your Harvard shirt for a couple weeks after decisions come out because it might hurt your friend who didn’t get in. But otherwise, I’m not trying to rub it in anyone’s face. I’m not making any judgments and saying I’m better than everyone else.</p>
<p>You sound really resentful, but hopefully some of it will go away after you get your decisions and don’t have to deal with all this stress anymore (assuming you’re in high school).</p>
<p>Why do I go “out of my way to wear my shirts”? </p>
<p>Because they were gifts from my kids…who love their schools…and because some of this garb is pretty darn nice stuff.</p>
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<p>At my kids’ high school, kids started wearing their shirts or hoodies or whatever WHEN they made a commitment to the school to attend. It was their statement that they were going to attend a college…and everyone did it. </p>
<p>Sorry OP, but I think you “analogy” of getting a shirt with an “I have a 145 IQ” doesn’t fly at all. </p>
<p>My question to you…Why SHOULDN’T folks wear these shirt? Is it because others might be jealous? That is ridiculous. I hope when you get accepted to college that you will be as proud as anyone else. If you don’t want to wear the clothes, that’s up to you…but there is no need to begrudge others their desire to do so.</p>
<p>Boy, if school Tshirts bother you, you’d really hate our town. We proudly fly our school flags. Everyone’s cars have stickers and license plate frames. </p>
<p>Flying my Wash St flag years ago brought me a new friend. A neighbor who went to WSU in the forties and RPI (for a change of scenery) and stayed here. His wife, a Whitman grad, knew my stepmother’s sisters. </p>
<p>Sad Cowboy: Our Seahawks flag is at half mast…</p>
<p>OOO you poor thing MINI</p>
<p>YOUDON’TSAY - aawwwwwwwwww </p>
<p>Yeah, but I get to share the pink and black with Rupert Murdoch, George Sainsbury, and Bill Bradley, and lived in the monastic building where DeQuincey smoked his opium. ;)</p>
<p>And, wow, do they have money these days - it went from a middle-of-the-road entity on the outskirts to the most popular college at Oxford:</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to the Worcester College University of Oxford Website](<a href=“http://www.worcester.ox.ac.uk/]Welcome”>http://www.worcester.ox.ac.uk/) )</p>
<p>(It’s also where Alice in Wonderland takes place - chute, rabbit hole, painting the roses red and all!)</p>
<p>Like others have said, many many many of those sweat shirts and t-shirts are presents from student to parents and siblings and friends. Or they’re presents from students at one school to their friends at another school. What I always wonder about is how they can afford it–it always shocks me when I see the prices in the catalog from my alma mater’s student store. So hey, if someone wants to give me a nice sweatshirt from their college, I’ll happily wear it. OK, maybe not if it’s from USC, lol.</p>
<p>My favorite college t-shirt right now is one from some school in Couer D’Alene, Idaho. We were on vacation, needed some new clothing, H bought us both new t-shirts when out on a morning walk. It’s a really comfy shirt. My most effective sweatshirt in terms of generating awe and respect is one from a well-known federal justice agency. I think even HYP grads quail before its awesome power!</p>
<p>The only “college” gear I have is a sweatshirt from Miami of Ohio that is the softest, snuggliest thing to wear on a yucky day (the kind of thing I’d throw on to run up to the store). I didn’t go to Miami U, in fact I’ve never been to Ohio in my life. Don’t make an assumption that just because someone is wearing a “school” shirt that they went there. Maybe it was a gift.</p>
<p>But anyway who cares what other people wear! I don’t even look.</p>
<p>The only times I’ve ever paid attention to school gear are when I’ve been on my kid’s college campuses. I’m always blown away by how many people are wearing t-shirts and such with the school logo on it. I think it shows an immense pride in their school (or maybe it’s just that it is easy to pick up a school shirt at the co-op when you need something clean to wear).</p>