<p>What do you all think? Any practically speaking, do campus bookstores accept returns?</p>
<p>Whoops, meant to say "And" practically speaking...</p>
<p>Whether or not you own the shirt won't actually affect the outcome, but if the news is disappointing you are going to hate the very sight of that shirt.</p>
<p>Hahaha. This is an issue I'm contemplating myself. I suppose it was rather hasty of me, but I bought a rather expensive sweatshirt from my first choice school, but now I don't know what I'll do with it if I get rejected (and the chances of that happening are pretty great).</p>
<p>I don't think I'll wear the sweatshirt come decision day, though. I know that a lot of other people are applying ED/EA and will be hearing back from their schools on the same day, so I don't really want them to see my sweatshirt and ask, "Oh, by the way, have you heard yet?" It'd add to the torture, I think. (:</p>
<p>And afterwards... Well, I don't know. It is a nice sweatshirt, and it'd be a terrible waste of money if I just left it at the back of my closet. I'd probably wear it at home, though.</p>
<p>We ordered the day after ED decision came out, and had it in time for Christmas--I'm superstitious!</p>
<p>I will be buying the cheaper shirts each with the name of a different college.</p>
<p>I asked my friend this. He has several different items of clothing with Dartmouth written on them. He told me he will be crushed if rejected. He is likely to be rejected, and he knows this, but tells me that he will wear the clothes anyway if rejected. I couldn't do that, but he can! Good for him, I guess.</p>
<p>Well, there's always Goodwill.</p>
<p>True, but college shirts are pretty expensive just to wear for a few months and then give to Goodwill. Maybe I'm just stingy but I wouldn't buy something that I planned to give away in 6 months</p>
<p>I did what garland did-bought my S his ED sweatshirt and put it away for a holiday gift. The day the ED decision was able to be ascertained online, I had bought a dozen balloons but hid them in the basement just in case he got rejected. My S went into his room and closed the door wanting his privacy.His father and I were waiting outside the door and we heard all this screaming and joyful hollering. I ran downstairs and got the balloons-obviously he had gotten into his ED choice and I gave him the sweatshirt too!
Since, then he has bought t-shirts, car bumper stickers, keychains etc. from his school too!</p>
<p>Do you have a Steve and Barry's near you? They have logo tee shirts for almost every major college and many of the top LAC's....as well as schools that are near the actual store location. </p>
<p>So...you could get it the day of the acceptance.</p>
<p>Prices are very good, too.</p>
<p>If there's one near you....</p>
<p>Two years ago I was superstitious too .... and waited until my son opened the letter to order the shirt. I splurged on rush shipping :)</p>
<p>Or maybe check out Goodwill for old college sweaters?</p>
<p>Hey, owning and wearing the sweatshirt is often more fun than actually attending! ;)</p>
<p>Actually, buying the sweatshirt was hold my d. told me where she was choosing to attend. After an overnight at my alma mater, she refused to purchase one. After one hour at her chosen school, she had it emblazoned all over her.</p>
<p>We bought the sweatshirt for S's ED college ahead of time and I bought a couple of balloons in the college colors the day the envelope came. (It was a thin envelope with no hints!) It was a Saturday and S was working the whole day. I took the envelope and taped it to the balloon strings and left it "floating" in his room with the sweatshirt laid out on the bed. He came home from work, walked into his room and we didn't hear anything except the sound of paper tearing. He was in there for close to 10 minutes making no discernible noise. He then walked into my room, flipped a postcard at me and said, "I need a $250 deposit." That was the extent of his reaction. But you have to be really, really sure somehow (mother's intuition?) or this scenario could get ugly! ;)</p>
<p>OMG momof3sons! I bet that was a long ten minutes for you.</p>
<p>last year at D's HS a youngster accepted to Yale (a rare acceptance at this HS) showed up wearing a sweatshirt from the least prestigious of our state colleges. He's a great kid, popular, and unassuming, so most people took this as intended -- as a humorous jibe at himself, and at the whole ivy/prestige culture. I found it endearing. I can see where some people (like, those attending the least prestigious state school) might be offended.</p>
<p>PrimetimeMom, when we asked S what he was possibly doing in his room, he said he was reading whatever they had enclosed in the envelope! There couldn't have been more than 3 sheets of paper in there so I guess he just wanted to torture us, as is his nature. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>A running joke with another Mom and myself when our kids were looking at colleges was, "Well, did you buy the sweatshirt?" Meaning that our kids had found THE college and we would buy the requisite clothing. We were both too cheap to buy something from anyplace except a sure thing. I ended up buying my daughter a sweatshirt after she decided on-line. For my son, I took a chance and bought a t-shirt at the bookstore before he decided but after he was accepted. Once he made his choice I couldn't wait to give it to him. His college has a pretty bad on-line bookstore so I was glad I did. Hope it works out for you!</p>
<p>DS is collecting the FREE t-shirts from the colleges he has applied to. So far he has received 4 , and I bought him one. He already has several (again free) from his reach school - passed on by his big sis. We'll wait to buy a hoody until he chooses which school to matriculate to.</p>