<p>My S has received a lot of stuff, from a lot of schools. My personal favorites are the letters that say “You are the recipient of the ***** Scholarship”! 
The nice box of stuff for his parents from UChicago will influence him ZERO. There are schools he loves (even though he is trying to play it cool) and schools he likes (where he has no problem being cool towards them). I don’t care what hat his dad puts on, if he doesn’t like the school, that isn’t going to change. LOL If it was that easy to influence my son I’d be wearing a t-shirt that said, “Please fill out all of your private donor scholarships NOW!!!”</p>
<p>intparent - I get the feelilng that your D is influenced by you and DH. If you feel that your wearing a particular school’s clothing would make her think that that is where YOU want her to go, then by all means don’t wear it.</p>