The tartan contained colors - green, red, blue, black and a little yellow. It’s the Carnegie Clan tartan. http://www.scotclans.com/scottish-clans/clan-carnegie/
I’d have called the Harvard crimson maroon if I’d been using a word. It’s not red.
LOL! I love Zits!
My H favorite sports teams are blue and orange…and the HS he teaches at (kids’ alma mater) is blue and orange…so, yeah, there’s some orange our wardrobe whether or not we look good in it.
I look good in any color or clothes. I make everything I wear look great.
I love love love orange and would have been thrilled to have that as a college wear option! I ended up with purple, which is equally cool 
However this thread makes me want to check S’s lists school colors… I swear half of them are blue. Boring!!!
Another orange fan here. I don’t have any school ties to the color. I just like it a lot.
^^lol @doschicos . Do you prefer your stripes to be horizontal or vertical?
Well, usually the orange suits aren’t striped. Don’t you watch OITNB, @MotherOfDragons ? 
Oh, and I don’t like orange skin! Oompa Loompas give me the creeps, as does that other guy.
My favorite color is blue, and my top four school choices all ended up being blue. I’d like to think it’s a coincidence.
My friend’s older sister decided what colleges to apply to by going through her pile of college junk mail and throwing out schools whose color was red since she doesn’t look good in it. From those left, she narrowed down her choices in more typical and sane ways 
My D’s #1 choice has colors she does not like at all (orange and brown) and a campus that is “not exactly the prettiest.” On the good side, their mascot is a tiger.
@doschicos, thanks for the double lol of the day!
My kid threw out a school because their mascot is a bee. He just couldn’t get past it and I had told him whatever reason he wanted to throw out a school was fine because he had a long list at the time. He narrowed it down to 5 but I still like the bee school. Wish we could have at least visited to see if that could have changed his mind
A little embarrassed to acknowledge that two schools on my kid’s list got a negative bounce because of colors/mascot. As much as Kalamazoo did SO much right, orange plus the hornet was a bit of a negative. There were other reasons he chose otherwise (too small, too close to Indiana, not enough geographic diversity since he was already in the midwest). Same for Wooster – the tartan, with dominant black and yellow/gold, just didn’t feel “collegiate” to him. Again, there were other reasons it never rose to number one on his list, but that just contributed to a lack of warmth/comfort.
Both kids, from preschool through college, have red as the dominant school color. Makes wardrobe and car stickers a whole lot easier to coordinate.
What about names? Ursinus. Daughter said “it sounds like cold medicine.” Actually, she didn’t like the sound of Muhlenberg at first - has since visited, liked it very much, and applied - but I think that was heavily influenced by the first “Muhlenberg campus tour” video we found in YouTube, made by a college counselor, I assume. Woman has the most nasal voice I’ve ever heard. “Mewwwlenberg Caaaallege. Let’s check it owwwt!!!” :))
My daughter has completed her high school and she’s now in search of a good college. She is searching college in the basis of appearance and building structure. I’ve told her a lot of time that you don’t go for appearance, look for the college environment. But she’ll always look the outer beauty. I don’t know what she’s going to decide about her future :-S
Back in the eighties I chose my college because the picture on the front of the brochure was pretty. I never even visited before I went.
My younger son had specifics when he was looking for a college. He wanted to run cross country/track. Needed a school with a strong math/science program. Wanted his own room (got that idea from his older brother who had his own room all four years). Wanted little or no debt when he graduates. And … the school had to have a Chick-fil-A! He found that school. Although he no longer runs competitively, he is quite happy with his education … and that he can visit Chick-fil-A a couple of times a week.
Luckily there are so many good schools that even picking at random a student can end up at a pretty good place.
My D applied and was accepted at Syracuse (among others) But as we left campus from accepted students day she said…“there is just too much orange”. Ah well, fortunately she had other schools to choose from!