<p>I have this thing where I won't buy any apparel until I get accepted to that university. I'm still waiting to hear back from my #1 and #2 (Jan 31 and 30 respectively), so I have no college-labeled clothes.</p>
<p>So, did you get a tshirt when you toured the campus? Have you always been a fan of them? Do you just get random college stuff?</p>
<p>If I get into my #1 (UNC), I'm going to get a hoodie that day. :D</p>
<p>I think it would be awkward to wear T-shirts for a college and then get rejected from them. I will wait.</p>
<p>Do we get mailed shirts/sweaters from colleges we get accepted into?</p>
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Sure, if you pay extra…</p>
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<p>Generally the clothing manufacturer does the mailing - after you order them online.</p>
<p>That would be silly to wear a hoodie from a college you get rejected from. </p>
<p>Whan, I can’t tell if you’re being srs or not.</p>
<p>@Whan: I think Yale sends t-shirts. Anyway, I did get a Swarthmore sweatshirt before I applied, but that was because I did DiscoSwat and had legit memories there. I also have a Northwestern shirt though I didn’t apply. My sister goes there. And I have a Sorbonne shirt even though I could never get in, as I don’t speak French fluently and it’s selective. But that looks more touristy than college grubby I think, since the Sorbonne has been called the University of Paris for years now. Oh, and if I had had more pounds with me at the time, I would have bought a Cambridgre shirt when I went there for interview.</p>
<p>My sons have gotten t-shirts from lots of different colleges as they toured, auditioned (in the one son’s case), and were accepted. The son who is still in high school wears them all, and believe it or not, the one in college will wear the other colleges’ t-shirts when he’s home from school! One day over Christmas break, he was wearing a really nice purple TCU Horn Frogs t-shirt that he got when he was accepted there (he does not go to TCU!), and people everywhere he went were shouting “GO FROGS!” or coming up to him and telling him what a great school TCU is! Cracked us up. While the high school son will wear the freebie shirts that he got on college visits without any reservation, he is not at all interested in purchasing one at any school. We were at Stanford’s bookstore the other day, where I was admiring all their great looking tree t-shirts, and my son was adamant that I not purchase one for him! So, in my family’s case, if it’s free, you can wear it – but it’s verboten to purchase one and wear it – unless you go there! Funny.</p>
<p>Why would you buy clothes from a place you’re not going to attend or don’t have a family connection to?</p>
<p>I generally stay off the HS threads, but this one was amusing. We bought some sweatshirts as we toured because my daughter’s HS allowed the girls to wear them instead of uniform shirts once they were accepted. She had quite a collection, but we didn’t buy one everywhere. At the one school where she was rejected, she wanted to write rejected on duct tape and put it across the front and wear that, but didn’t. We are easily amused at our house.</p>
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<p>I love families who are easily amused. They’re so much more interesting.</p>
<p>Okay, I have this thing where I DO get a t-shirt from (almost) every school I visit and some from family members and friends who live near/visited/go to certain schools.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m weird like that, but I think it’s interesting to have these different shirts from different places, whether I’m going there or not.</p>
<p>I don’t get sweatshirts, though. I think that’s a little too much to get so late in the game without actually attending. Maybe a few years ago, but not as a senior.</p>
<p>I constantly see people wearing clothes with the name of some other college at my college.</p>
<p>If I visited a school and really liked it, I bought something. I only bought for one school… I bought a sweater AND a bag. That should say something.</p>
<p>I have a bunch of UW stuff. I’ve been a Husky fan since birth, and even if I get rejected I’ll still wear it</p>
<p>@ThisCouldBeHeaven,
Well, we haven’t purchased tshirts from schools yet – other than where they attend. The kids have gotten all of theirs free – either by visiting or by getting selected to attend. But I did want to buy a t-shirt from Standford and the Air Force Academy. Why? I don’t know. Because those schools are not only schools but, maybe, “tourist destinations” of sorts. Tons and tons of people visit both those schools (and others) with no intention of attending. (One son does intend to apply to Stanford. The AFA was just a tourist stop.) You guys don’t ever buy t’s at places you’ve visited, with otherwise no connection?</p>
<p>Yep, fuzzleshnops, verboten is forbidden. German derivative. I used it tongue-in-cheek, like it was used in movies, sitcoms (Hogan’s Heroes), Laugh-In, etc (dating myself) in my youth. Thanks for making me feel old!</p>
<p>I will REFUSE to wear any college sweatshirt that I’m applying to until I’m accepted. I do have a UConn sweatshirt (because we are UConn football fans), and a University of Alaska sweatshirt (because my parents went to Alaska and decided to bring it back), and I have a couple Boston U. shorts/shirts because my sister went there.</p>
<p>fuzzle: Totally serious here lol. I’ve never really taken the time to buy any T-shirts from colleges I’ve visited. The only one I have is a Caltech shirt they gave out for free when I went to Siemens Region 1. I was more asking whether colleges send packages with free stuff once you get in (more specifically, Stanford?)</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
<p>There was this one junior in Algebra 1 wearing a USC shirt. I was all like: “You know you’re probably going to get rejected, right?..”</p>
<p>I have a UNC hoodie. That could be a potential college choice but I love their basketball team so it works out for now :)</p>