<p>If you are supporting a sports team or a family member its cool.</p>
<p>If it is a LAC its a bit wierd because they have no sports teams (and if you say davidson then your a bandwaggoner because they only just got decent).</p>
<p>If it is Ivy/Stanford/Other Ivy Look alikes I find you arragant and annoying unless you have gotten in, and only then waer it like once every two weeks.</p>
<p>If you are goin to the school the once every week or so is cool...</p>
<p>I like it when people wear the logos of the colleges they'll be attending. Its fun when I'm walking down the halls to see where people are going ^_^ Of course that may not actually be where they're going...</p>
<p>hahah good point, people like to lie about that. i think the most ridiculous lie i've ever heard was a kid who told everyone he was going to dartmouth and rocked dartmouth gear for the entier 2nd semester, then ended up at the local community college. eveyrone asked what happened and he said he couldnt pay for it... LOL.</p>
<p>wandrlusting: your example definitely crosses the line. LOL</p>
<p>The funny thing is I'm an alum from an HYP and most of my peers frown on that blatant showboating -- just chalk it up to immaturity or lack of perspective on her part. Ignore her -- what she is is apparent to all.</p>
<p>Quaker: that sounds like the sad case a few month's ago where a footballer from Colo. pretended he was being courted by some huge football programs. He even had a huge news conference at his HS the day he was going to "choose" his college. It turns out that all of it was faked -- not one of those programs had recruited him, much less made offers to him. He let it get too far. Talk about burning your bridges -- I'm sure his family can't show their faces around town any longer. It was sad and pathetic.</p>
<p>It could care less what people wear, accepted, fan, or not associated in anyway. It's really not that big a deal.... I might as well get mad at somebody just for getting into a school. Doesn't affect me</p>
<p>T26E4: LOL this was ALL over ESPN... i actually felt bad for the kid in the end but ur totally right they're parallels... </p>
<p>in some ways the pressures of elite athletic recruiting are comparable to elite academic admissions. it's getting to the point where it's just ugly.</p>
<p>College</a> "recruit's" lie a tale gone horribly wrong - Columnist - ESPN</p>
<p>I am always in need of new workout shirts so I rock whatever college gear I have since usually I need as many of my shirts as possible.</p>
<p>^^ nothin wrong with that, it's just the kids who rock it at school every single day so as to say "hey look at me and my cool school and how cool i must b to be going there or associating myself with this school"</p>
<p>I'm a legacy from a HYP. For the longest time, I had no apparel from the school. When I visited this past year, attended a football game, stayed overnight, etc., I finally picked up a sweatshirt from the bookshop.</p>
<p>I wore it once a few weeks before decisions came out. I got deferred.</p>
<p>I haven't worn it in a while... :)</p>
<p>But really, I don't care what kids do or don't do. If they want to plaster "XX got accepted into State College Y" on their Facebook status, fine. If they want to do the same thing with their clothing, fine.</p>
<p>I don't see a problem with someone wearing college apparel. Hell, if a community college bound senior decides he wants to wear a harvard sweatshirt for the hell of it, more power to him. I don't really see how it affects me at all.</p>
<p>Personally, I'm waiting to find out where I get in before I actually spend money on any college stuff, though I did get a free University of New Haven T-shirt when visited there that I wore a few times before deciding not to apply... I gave it to my brother who's still in middle school, lol.</p>
<p>lulz one of my friends was wearing a Penn sweater the day the decisions came out (he also wore it a few times last year and this year). BAM he didnt get in yet. Am yet to see him sport it again.</p>
<p>I have a shirt from Harvard, and I wear it sometimes without any affiliation with the school.
I don't see what the big deal is, but I do get a bunch of people giving me **** for it, which is annoying.</p>
<p>My brother-in-law is at MIT for grad school, and he takes some classes at Harvard as part of the program. Because of this, I have a few MIT t-shirts and a Harvard sweatshirt. I wear them all the time. </p>
<p>When I got accepted to Gtown, my aunt (who lives in Northern Virginia and would LOVE it if I moved so close) sent me a Georgetown t-shirt, and one to my mom, too. I don't know if that's where I want to go, but it's a cute shirt and a nice (if calculated) gesture.</p>
<p>I don't own any college sweatshirts. none. But several who won't even apply to Harvard wear Harvard sweatshirts, or other high end schools' shirts. I don't mind...gosh if you're cold it keeps you warm. I don't understand why people find it arrogant if you're not going to the school. I think it might just be those people who are sad with their own pathetic lives. Seriously, people should stop judging people completely by what they wear.</p>
<p>I wear my RPI hoodie to school every day. It isn't because I want to show off.. heck, not many people even know what or where it is... it is just because I don't have any other warm hoodies at the moment and I like the color :). Yes I did get in though, my mom gave it to me as a present when I got my acceptance letter.</p>
<p>^ congrats on RPI!!! my mom went there & it's an amazing school. people here haven't heard of it, either. LOLWUT.</p>
<p>i wear MIT and Brown stuff & i haven't been accepted to either; it's not really pretension so much as showing my support for the schools / it's something to wear. i got the clothes pretty legitimately, too: my mom took a course at MIT for her work like 10 years ago & got a free sweatshirt, and i did <a href="mailto:Summer@Brown">Summer@Brown</a>. i also have a Wellesley shirt from my visit that i haven't worn yet. again, just showing that i like the school. it shouldn't reflect on ME at all.</p>
<p>people who read too much into this stuff need to cheeeeel</p>
<p>Why buy a shirt that you'll probably never want to wear once you get into and choose your eventual school? (Unless you'll still root for them in sports).</p>
<p>hmmm... not necessarily. on campus visits, i always see people in shirts for other schools. i remember a USC guy at Princeton. </p>
<p>sweatshirts are warm... i don't discriminate!</p>
<p>Haha there's a bunch of speech and debaters at my school who were college shirts they get from debates lolol then none of them actually get in..</p>
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I wear my RPI hoodie to school every day. It isn't because I want to show off.. heck, not many people even know what or where it is... it is just because I don't have any other warm hoodies at the moment and I like the color . Yes I did get in though, my mom gave it to me as a present when I got my acceptance letter.
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Congrats. My dad went there. I remember he took us up to Troy one year to watch a Hockey match lol</p>