<p>worrywart,</p>
<p>I thought it was bad karma to respond to your post until you heard, lol. Congrats! My husband bought a sweatshirt for the school my son applied SCEA to, but hid it at his office till we got the word, then came home with it. He hoped that keeping it out of the house, and planning on sending it to a friend whose wife was an alum in the event son was rejected, would keep bad luck away -- it did.</p>
<p>Congratulations, worrywart and worrywart's son!</p>
<p>camelia -</p>
<p>Make lemonade in your mug. You know what they say about being dealt a bunch of lemons. It will probably reverse the bad luck.</p>
<p>worrywart-
S. is very excited about heading to Tufts in the fall (applied ED), and hopes to major in IR. Do you have a son or daughter there?</p>
<p>Congrats to him, lspf72! Yes, my S is a junior there this year. Sure hope you've been checking out TuftsLife.com everyday. It's a wealth of information for mothers of tightlipped sons.</p>
<p>worrywart-- Thanks for the link - we just learned something new!</p>
<p>Bump- How did it work out for everyone?
Sweatshirt= bad luck??</p>
<p>Yes! Let's collect some hard data to determine once and for all if buying sweatshirts affects the admissions decision!</p>
<p>We bought no sweatshirts we got a lot of rejections. Maybe we'd have had better karma if we'd been more positive? ;)</p>
<p>Wasn't brave enough at the time to spend the $35+ on a sweatshirt, but t-shirt brought good luck.</p>
<p>We've gotten her t-shirts for both first choices, even before one of the acceptances arrived...now if she can just make a decision! :confused: :rolleyes: She promised us she'd announce it on 4/23/07, which is the date of her swimming banquet (the Seniors all announce the college they're attending) so it will be as much a surprise to me as it is to everyone else. "Decision day" at school (when the Seniors all wear their college t-shirts over their uniforms) isn't until early May.</p>
<p>so what if a person doesn't have a college they are going to, or they are embarrassed, are they required to announce that in front of everyone</p>
<p>seems harsh</p>
<p>as for the tshirt thing, that is ridiculous if you ask me, and can be hurtful</p>
<p>what if kids got into amazing schools, but parents can't pay, or family issues make their choice a coomunity college, etc</p>
<p>I would hate that tshirt day thing</p>
<p>I find it offensive and cruel and showing off, sorry but that kind of stuff just bugs me to death</p>
<p>Having known several kids whose hearts were broken because of finances, etc and going to schools they are not in love with and seeing people flaunt it with tshirts, how cruel</p>
<p>What if you your D was accepted at school XYZ, but the aid was terrible, should she have to explain that publically by wearing a tshirt?</p>
<p>If that was my Ds school, I would work to stop that practice</p>
<p>We bought a t-shirt at each college and S was accepted to all 10. Hmm, maybe there IS something to it.....;)</p>
<p>Regarding tee shirt day ...</p>
<p>Since springfield mom mentioned wearing their collegiate tee shirt over their <em>uniform</em> I'm going to venture a guess that this is a independent college prep school. The experience will be a little different than at a public high school.</p>
<p>I use my rejected college t-shirts for working out in. :)</p>
<p>At my son's school -- a small college prep independent school -- very small maybe 40 graduating seniors -- college acceptances are announced daily at lunch. The entire upper school eats family style in the dining room with the faculty and all college acceptances are <strong>cheered</strong> with the daily announcements. Yesterday was apparently a big day ... lots of the seniors had acceptances to announce!</p>
<p>I'm another wait and see person. I didn't want to buy a shirt during the app process or until son made his choice, but as soon as he did, I sent off for two shirts, a cup, and a stuffie. They arrived yesterday and he's wearing one to school today. </p>
<p>He does have shirts from a school he was rejected from, but they're from the special summer program, so that's different.</p>
<p>I thought the sweetest was one University gave my daughter a shirt (and a messenger bag, and a NYC guidebook) when she showed up for admittance day. Good marketing. And though in the end she chose another University, she thought long and hard about passing up that one, and wears the T-shirt.</p>
<p>The University she did choose included a window decal in their big envelope. So once she decided where to accept she slapped that decal on the back window of her car. She already had the sweatshirt, as she attended a few summer programs there.</p>
<p>A few years back, admitted students who attended MIT's Campus Preview Weekend were given very nice t-shirts by student greeters when they arrrived on campus. They said "MIT" on the front and "Because not everyone can get into CalTech" on the back. </p>
<p>Turned out some CalTech students had flown in for the occasion.</p>
<p>Springfield Mom -- At my daughter's dance studio, all the Seniors were introduced after the last recital, and all wore t-shirts of the college they were going to. Once daughter decided where she was going, we immediately ordered a shirt specifically for recital.</p>