<p>So fellow high school students, do you own any merchandise from your dream college(s)?
And if you are a senior:
What did you do to it when you didn't get accepted?
If you are not a senior:
What would you do to it if you did/didn't get accepted?</p>
<p>Nooooo, never. I find it really lame when people who aren’t in college have college merch, actually…</p>
<p>^^^ Please, half my daughter’s casual attire is from a State University she likely won’t even apply to! She spent about 6 summers there for training camps and loves the school, even if it is not really where she wishes to matriculate. Many people feel strong bonds with their state university, whether they have attended or not. To op, what you choose to do with your dream college merch is a very personal decision. I know one kid who got rejected from UF put all his stuff on ebay! Do what feels right to you and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks.</p>
<p>I have some shirts from the local universities around where I live [I’ve gotten shirts for MUN and things like that that the universities have hosted], and I have a McGill hoodie since my brother goes there. And then I bought a Columbia shirt last year when my friend’s sister got in.</p>
<p>I wear stuff from where my brothers go, but I’m waiting to buy college merch until I actually get accepted, the dissapointment would be a little odd, and the merch would just be a bitter reminder !</p>
<p>I bought a pen from every college I visited, plus a t shirt from one I liked a lot. It was just a t shirt, so if I don’t get in, I’ll keep it. I visited a LAC, where I saw probably fifteen people wearing Yale or Harvard or UCLA or Kenyon (I know, random) shirts.</p>
<p>I only own clothes from where my brother goes to college (or my parents).</p>
<p>I probably will buy something small, from colleges I like. I like buying postcards from every (new) place I visit…</p>
<p>I always used to just pick up college shirts from the colleges I visited or randomly stopped by and I sometimes got my family to grab me a shirt from a college near them or one they visit. I’m wearing one now. =P
I must have about 9 or 10.</p>
<p>The school I really want to go to…I still want to go there, so I’m not burning the shirt or anything. I’ll just save it until I transfer. But I like the shirt anyway, so…yeah. :)</p>
<p>And now that it’s after spring break, I see a bunch of people with new college sweatshirts and t-shirts from the colleges they visited or decided to attend and I feel less alone.
I’m a little jealous of all the people with the sweatshirts I see around school, but I’m waiting to decide where I’m going before I get a sweatshirt from the school.</p>
<p>every time i visited another college, i didn’t buy anything in fear that i would be rejected from there : P</p>
<p>psh i got stuff from northwestern (waitlisted) and uchicago (rejected). i just think of them as souvenirs from a place i visit. 
its just like me going to atlanta and getting a shirt that has atlanta over it.</p>
<p>^you can’t get rejected from atlanta ;}</p>
<p>lulz, true that</p>
<p>Don’t own any college paraphernalia besides the free stuff I receive from soccer camps. </p>
<p>I’ll buy some once I’m actually accepted/going somewhere.</p>
<p>^ same here. If i get rejected, I’d probably never wear the shirt again. So it’d be a waste of money.</p>
<p>Victoria’s Secret sells my state school’s merch, so lots of girls wear that. I don’t since I hatehatehate my state school.</p>
<p>What the hell is wrong with wearing clothing of another college you didn’t go to or got rejected from? Unless you are going to a rival school of the college, there’s really no need to get rid of stuff. It’s clothing, people who don’t have clothing would love to have it and you guys are like discussing what you’d do if you got rejected to a college, either wear it or don’t. There shouldn’t be a reason to get rid of clothes unless they look ugly or they don’t fit.</p>
<p>My parents basically told me that I couldn’t buy anything from any of the schools we visited until I got in. Which I think is fair, especially because I would have spent at least a hundred bucks on all the cute college shirts I saw…</p>
<p>I don’t know that I would have necessarily thrown out those clothes upon not getting accepted, but maybe just wearing them to bed or in places where people aren’t going to ask awkward questions is a good idea, so they don’t go to waste. That said - I still get a lot of awkward questions for owning college clothes from my mom’s alma mater and the university where my dad works. But now I also have shirts from the school I’m (probably) attending this fall, so it’s all good! :)</p>
<p>Well I own two college shirt and a hoodie, one of the t-shirts is from my friend who recently got accepted (and will be going) and the other is my brother’s school. He sent me stuff from his college store for my birthday. Even though my birthday’s during his winter break he didn’t catch a flight to a different hemisphere and went to Cali and partied with his Stanford friends… so jealous!</p>
<p>I have gear from the Sorbonne, Northwestern, and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>No one calls the Sorbonne the Sorbonne anymore, and the shirt is more obviously an “I’m a tourist in 1980s Paris” than an “I go to the University of Paris” shirt. Besides that, I don’t think most people here would know what the Sorbonne is, and I only wear it to bed/around the house. I’m not fluent in French, so I obvi didn’t apply.</p>
<p>I got my Swarthmore sweatshirt because I had a really nice weekend there. I’m not going to go there, and I’ve known that for a while, but I like having it. I got in, so, there’s no “what would I do otherwise” drama.</p>
<p>My sister goes to Northwestern, and I asked for a sweatshirt for my birthday. I mostly like wearing it to jokingly remind people at my school that NU was not nearly so popular before my sister went there. She and I say that she “started a trend.” But it’s really tight, which is good for the whole looking cute bit but bad for the whole ability to take if off in public bit. So I rarely wear it to school.</p>
<p>^ What about for the college you are interested in?</p>