<p>Maybe its just me, but I really cant stand people at my high school wearing around hats and sweatshirts of prestigious colleges they havent gotten into. To me it just seems pretentious. Maybe its not? Your opinion?</p>
<p>He says they HAVE NOT gotten into those schools.</p>
<p>Woops lol... okay... yea its pretentious!</p>
<p>I have a few college sweathshirts of UVA, Geogetown, and UCSD. My sister goes to UCSD, so I wear that to support her school, and I spent 6 weeks duirng the 2004 summer at Georgetown and I had such a great time. However, I don't really have a reason for the UVA one, I guess I just really liked the sweatshirt...lol. In general though, I do agree. I hate it when the same person has a Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc sweatshirt and has no affiliation with any of the schools (I actually haven't met anyone like this, but I'm sure they do exist).</p>
<p>The funny thing is that prestigious schools generally don't have good sports teams, except for a few like Stanford and Duke, so they can't really pass that off as being a sports fan either.</p>
<p>I have three college sweatshirts, Occidental, Mount Holyoke and George Washington, all schools I have visited, loved and would like to attend. please do not hate me.</p>
<p>I have a harvard buisnees school tee-shirt....I don't even know where I got it, but it's comfy...but I have had people ask me why I wear it....I say, all my other laundry was dirty :)</p>
<p>I wore a harvard sweatshirt for a while- I'm not going there, but its insanely warm. I also wear uchicago gear, but i am going there. Oh, and a UCLA sweater. But i took classes there over the summer. I dont mind people wearing their ambition in their clothing, and if they dont have any affiliation or interest in the school at all, its akin to wearing a puma or armani exchange logo.</p>
<p>I don't really think it matters much. I have a Stanford sweatshirt that I wear all the time because it's comfy as heck. People wear shirts of random sports teams they don't like, or random places their cousins' friends went to on vacation...I don't think it makes a difference. I actually think it's more obnoxious when people wear sweatshirts of schools they have been accepted to just in hopes that people will ask about it.</p>
<p>In high school I frequently wore a Yale sweatshirt (a gift from my alumna Grandmother) and always felt pretentious. I don't really care if other people do it, but I just don't feel right labeling myself as something I am not.</p>
<p>I have a shirt that just says "College". Is that ok.</p>
<p>I second the opinion that it's okay to wear your ambition on your shirt.</p>
<p>It's really only a big deal to people who are uptight about college in the first place. I was going to get a Princeton one, but they were too big. I'm not too into Princeton, but it was a nice sweatshirt. Whatever...</p>
<p>I only wear my Rutgers hoodie when it's cold. So maybe my body is pretentious for wanting to be not cold?</p>
<p>I think it's okay as long as you're not really smart or really dumb. If you're really dumb, people will make fun of you for a Princeton sweatshirt. However, if you're pretty smart, people will keep asking you (perhaps rather disdainfully if you're not the valedictorian) "oh, is that where you're applying" even if you're not or you know you don't have a shot. And even if you are the valedictorian, it just looks arrogant. But if you're just "average," people will know you're wearing it because it's comfy and no one will make fun of you for it. At least, that's the way it is at my school (where at least a quarter of the grade owns a Princeton sweatshirt :))</p>
<p>The people at my school...I'm not saying they are dumb, they just don't know their colleges. I have several college sweatshirts from top schools and I'd always be asked, 'What's that school?' I got a real mean comment from one girl, boasting in her KU shirt that she was going to UKansas, while I was going (I wasn't, just had the shirt) to some hick school called 'Oxford.' Very funny though.</p>
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KC lady-
Whoa-- your GRANDMOTHER is a grad?? Yale went coed in 1969, so unless she transferred in, the first coed graduating class was in 1973. That would make her about 54. And you are at Kenyon, so you are probably at least 18. So you GRANDMOTHER was 36 when you were born. When I was 36 my older son was 3 and my younger one wasn't born yet. Am I reading your post correctly???</p>
<p>I have t-shirts/ jerseys from the following schools: Ohio State, Texas, Syracuse, Georgetown, Northwestern, Iowa, Kent State, Akron, and Baldwin Wallace (ex-girlfriend old college) These are because I liked the color of the shirt (Texas, Iowa, Northwestern) are a jersey of a player I like (Iverson-Georgetown, Anthony-Syracuse) or teams I support (Kent State, Ohio State) The other t-shirts are just shirts people gave to me (Akron, Baldwin Wallace)</p>
<p>jym626: </p>
<p>My grandmother was an alum of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where she got her PhD in English. She was an undergrad at UMass Amherst. Yale Grad School went coed in 1894. I'm 20. She's in her 70s. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>This continues even at college. After a few days, I've seen Harvard, Drake, Emory, Berkeley, and a couple other t-shirts. </p>
<p>Personally I owned Davidson, NC State, and Duke shirts (although I wanted one of the funny Chicago sweatshirts). I really liked all the schools and I'm a strong supporter of Duke basketball.</p>