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I was previously unaware of the waiting until spring thing. I think most people get that it’s sort of gauche to wear apparel from a university you have no connection with. Although, in a small town, you do see a number of people wearing the Harvard/Stanford/Yale stuff out and about when you know they and no one in their family has ever gone there.
I do have a collection of Ivy paraphernalia that gets good use for painting and other dirty jobs, though. ;-)</p>
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<p>Depends. I know many people including yours truly who would wear such apparel because we were gifted them from friends/relatives who attended those colleges.</p>
<p>Personally, I did have a rule for myself where I won’t wear apparel of the college I was attending until I was certain to graduate from there with a degree in hand. Ironically, I wear my undergrad wear much more after college than I did while I was a student there. </p>
<p>I don’t think my son owns any t-shirts from UG or grad school. </p>
<p>I think maybe it depends on the area. Kids at our high school/middle school wear college gear where their parents/siblings went or where they want to go. Even the teachers get into it. DS is at Georgia Tech so his brother in 8th grade wears GT tee shirts… Meanwhile one of his teachers went to UGA and her whole room is decorated with UGA stuff… there is also lots of kids wearing UA and Auburn stuff. To start not wearing college gear senior year would be kind of strange.</p>
<p>@MichiganGeorgia it’s sometimes shocking not to see a Georgia teacher’s classroom decked out completely in SEC/ACC school gear. </p>
<p>The T-shirt question comes up a lot among counselors on our multi-campus jaunts. We discuss whether it’s rude to wear something from College A on a tour of College B. Often, College A gave us all free shirts/umbrellas/hats earlier in the week. I think it’s fine unless the schools are bitter rivals, but I’m pretty relaxed about that kind of thing. </p>
<p>My nephew was telling me that at his school, everyone wears the sweatshirt of either the school that they just visited or the school that they’re hoping for. Wearing the sweatshirt isn’t an indication of acceptance or intention to attend.</p>
<p>I do think it’s rude to wear another school’s spirit-wear on a campus visit, even if they’re not rivals. Doing so suggests that your head and heart are not into the visit and the tour guide will feel that he/she is wasting time with someone who wants to go elsewhere…and isn’t open-minded to hear about THIS school. </p>
<p>I find the sweatshirt etiquette at the different schools interesting. My son goes to a large public school where kids wear college apparel all the time and it may or may not relate to a college they interested in attending. </p>
<p>You should not feel guilty about the Michigan acceptance, they must have seen something in you daughter’s app that separated her from the others. She should be proud of her accomplishment. </p>
<p>My son is a high stat OOS student that was also accepted at Michigan. He only became interested late this fall after meeting with the admission councilor at his school. He is interested in attending, but financing will be an issue, so need to see what aid he may get. </p>
<p>Congratulations on your daughters acceptance, I am sure she is very deserving.</p>
<p>“I think most people get that it’s sort of gauche to wear apparel from a university you have no connection with.”</p>
<p>Considering athletes often get free T-shirts at college camps, a lot of them end up with five or ten of different colleges. And it is odd, because a few of them are like “State U. Soccer” and they end up recruiting a handful of kids out of a hundred.</p>
<p>Also, when we were at WDW, let’s just say my bet was that the people wearing various Harvard T-shirts and sweatshirts (Florida in July) probably weren’t affiliated with the university in any way.</p>
<p>I remember when I was in HS, they had a catalog where you could order various “college T-shirts” from around the world. Curiously, my husband’s ex-girlfriend ended up with a similar thing, a sweatshirt from an international college that she had never visited. A gift from family friends in Europe.</p>
<p>I had never considered the wearing a school’s shirt etc as anything more important than wearing a destination t shirt…just some place you visited or someone sent you a souvenir from there. Only prohibition I knew of was Greek letters</p>
<p>My daughters both felt it was bad luck to wear apparel from the place you would like to attend. Kind of like tempting fate or something. </p>
<p>I am not sure whether someone has mentioned this already, but: For many years, Michigan has admitted incoming freshmen to majors, rather than to the university as a whole. I am not certain whether they are still doing this in the current, but it would not surprise me.</p>
<p>Some majors are over-subscribed and extremely competitive, while others are not so competitive. A student who is applying to Michigan in one of the engineering fields will usually face pretty stiff competition. </p>
<p>Gender is also taken into consideration in Michigan admissions–at least, it has been in the recent past. So male applicants who applied as nursing majors were accepted with lower overall qualifications than the female nursing applicants. If the OP’s daughter applied in engineering, she may have had a gender-based boost.</p>
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I’ve noticed that Harvard and Stanford (and Berkeley and MIT) are well-represented that way. What’s that about? Maybe it’s the Cardinal and the Crimson…or the Blue and the Gold? Do people “like” universities for their colors?</p>
<p>I live near one of the HYPMS (just noticed you get PMS in that), and I see all kinds of sweatshirts, etc. I’m assuming they are mostly grad students wearing their alma mater, but not necessarily. My college kids wear their sibs stuff at the colleges they attend. (Incidentally, Connecticut College students like to sport “Not UCONN” shirts.)</p>
<p>It is interesting, the different views on wearing t shirts and sweatshirts! In Boston, there are vendors all over the place selling Harvard, MIT, etc. t shirts. We visited when D was in Jr high and she was enamored with MIT at the time. Bought the MIT t shirt and wore it to school frequently. </p>
<p>Now that she has done actual college visits (and MIT isn’t on her ‘list’) she has t shirts or sweatshirts from most of the schools that remain on her list, and wears them to school. At her school, most seem to go to the state schools. D says she hears from friends that they don’t think they can get into other schools (some of which may actually be less selective than some of our state schools, but for many of them private school=unattainable).<br>
In a way I see wearing other school shirts to this school to be a possible incentive for more students to consider other schools. I can see, at some schools where many students are applying to highly selective schools, that might be very painful for the kids who didn’t get in, but I don’t think that’s the case in most schools. </p>
<p>People here where UF (Gators) or FSU (Seminoles) shirts all the time because of football. The majority of people wearing them probably did not attend those schools.</p>
<p>@maya54 I agree with you! My Ds were the same way: didn’t want to tempt fate…</p>
<p>And when we were on our tour of Northwestern, we saw more than a few kids donning Harvard and Stanford sweatshirts. What’s that about? Trying to intimidate the masses? Give me a break.</p>
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And when we were on our tour of Northwestern, we saw more than a few kids donning Harvard and Stanford sweatshirts. What’s that about? Trying to intimidate the masses? Give me a break.</p>
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<p>That is just rude!</p>
<p>My brother brought back a Sorbonne t-shirt for D from France. She wears it to school. Kids know she’s not going out of country to college.She has a Penn sweatshirt and a couple of UNC t-shirts as well. Absolutely no interest in attending these schools. Sometimes, a t-shirt is just a t-shirt. </p>
<p>Unless it’s a UNC shirt, in which case it’s an affront to humankind. ;)</p>
<p>DC#2 and I saw a young woman wearing Stanford-logo yoga pants on her tour of Berkeley. A bold fashion statement, to be sure. </p>
<p>I don’t think anyone at his school gets too bothered by folks wearing college gear from schools they’ve toured or just like for some other reason. OTOH, it would be even funnier to show up at school wearing the Belushi “Animal House” sweatshirt (“COLLEGE”). </p>
<p>Incidentally, I have a t-shirt of a Beijing area university and some older relatives got National Taiwan University t-shirts for their kids even though it was the parents who attended and the kids never attended or even been on its campus. </p>