Zits always hits close to home and while mine have all either finished or decided, this was just too funny and I’ve seen posts where kids declined interest in a college because of the school colors.
Love this! Kalamazoo was one of my D’s applied/accepted/fell down the list schools. The comments are funny, too.
Hey, seems like as good a system as any!
Very funny! She’d have to eliminate UT-Austin and Susquehanna (where my daughter attends), too!
And as a possible example of how adcoms make their decisions:
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2013/11/03
A couple of parents were offended when I posted this three years ago.
Why would anyone be offended by that? It’s funny! People need to get over themselves…
One reason Rowan fell off the list was their colors are brown and yellow. 
As an OU student, I approve!
Very funny and Eckerd colors are teal, navy and black.
The boys grandma made them each a blanket using their school colors when they left for college. Two different schools, but each got a black and red blanket.
I saw this and laughed!
(To be honest, that IS one of the reasons my parents don’t want me to go to the flagship!)
If you are choosing among comparable institutions, looking good in their colors is as good a basis as any for your decision. It’s at least as valid as whether you like the city it’s in, or the bathroom arrangements, or the food in the cafeteria when you ate a meal there, or the tour guide – things that can and do affect college choices. Most of the time, when kids are choosing a college, they can’t really make a mistake, because none of their choices are bad. So if there are no bad choices, there are no irrational grounds for choosing.
Over the years, I am pretty certain that I have participated in some Princeton vs. X threads and said some version of “Do you really want to spend the rest of your life wearing orange and black? No one looks good in those colors.” (I hadn’t seen Taraji P. Henderson yet, though. She could go to Princeton.)
^The orange is a killer, no doubt. You should see their orange football uniforms from this year!
I saw this Zits in my newspaper the other day and thought about the CC thread about reasons why kids eliminated colleges. I also think about the line in “The Blind Side” where Sandra Bullock (as Leigh Anne Tuohy) says she refuses to wear “that gaudy orange” of Tennessee.
And it’s not just a girl thing. On the drive home from visiting one school, S said something like, “I’m not sure about all those required core courses. Might be a hassle. But did you see how much blue there is all over the campus? It’s a good blue. And the mascot is cool, and he was the same shade of blue.”
Maybe he will study business and learn something about branding…
I went to UT and managed to get through my college career there without ever purchasing a single piece of orange clothing.
I saw that Zits and wondered why she didn’t mention Princeton in the same breath. It’s not the only reason I didn’t apply to Princeton, but I have to admit it’s a small negative in my mind.
I thought it was freshing that Carnegie Mellon had a tartan instead of school colors and until they adopted a Scottie my son’s senior year they didn’t have a mascot either - they just had a tartan.
But- was that tartan black and white or did it contain colors??? I find it funny that schools don’t just go with red but choose crimson or cardinal… Sorry, folks, but UW-Madison’s color was red to me no matter what the technicality was. And they warned people about washing it with whites- pink underwear…
You can say red if you want to, but we Wolverines will never call Maize “yellow.”
My daughter goes to a ‘Brown and Gold’ school and I think their clothing looks great. It’s not brash like many other schools. She has quite a few sweatshirts and they all look pretty good. Other daughter’s is 'crimson and gray" (not Harvard) and it is quite boring. Sweats look like they are gray sweats, like any sweats. The crimson is bland. Sorority colors? Basically the same (although they call it silver).
My school colors were silver and gold, but most of the students don’t know that. They think they are gold and black but they aren’t. One year they used blue instead of black as the accent color, and that was a disaster (u-g-l-y).
This is really funny. Thanks for sharing it. I don’t look good in Orange either. 