<p>I wear my mom’s Stanford sweatshirt. The reaction? Half the people can’t read what it says and think it says something else. </p>
<p>Lol, no one cares at my school. I DID spend 5 mins questioning this guy who wore a Berkeley t-shirt what Berkeley was like.</p>
<p>What about people who wear college shirts all the time. I feel people who get into Yale and wear Yale gear all the time are annoying. Wearing it once in a while is no problem, but when you wear it every dress down day or wear your sweater every day its annoying.</p>
<p>^ I suppose that’s a little obnoxious but at the same time, I could care less how other people dress.</p>
<p>I mean, if they want to flaunt the college they’re going to (or wish they could go to) then that’s their business.</p>
<p>My school has “wear your college t-shirt day too.”</p>
<p>There are some people who wear college gear. I honestly don’t care that much about what people wear. At home I wear a Sorbonne sweatshirt all the time, but I wouldn’t wear it to school because it’s really old and junky. I meant to get a new one in France but whatevs. I do want a Northwestern jacket really badly though. My sister goes there and they have the softest jackets ever.</p>
<p>I don’t really see the problem. I visited Dartmouth a few weeks ago and fell in love with the place. I’m definetly applying, so I see no reason why it’s bad to wear the sweatshirt. I mean, I won’t get a sweatshirt at every college I visit; maybe just one or two. </p>
<p>The only thing I do agree with is wearing a Harvard sweatshirt. I live close to Boston, so I see people wearing those sweatshirts all the time. Most of those people have no intentions of applying to Harvard, which is what bothers me. Still, I think it makes you look like a tourist :P</p>
<p>I judge people when they wear ivy league sweatshirts, because to me when you wear one it comes off like you think you could go there or something, so I think it’s odd when people wear them who don’t get good grades and such. Wow, that seems really catty. My apologies.</p>
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<p>I remember being in the British Museum (in London obviously) one time and seeing a lot of Asians walking around in Oxford sweaters. It was pretty funny, especially because the (East) Asian population there is very small, and there was no way they were anything other than tourists.</p>
<p>It’s a shame for people who actually do go to Ivy League schools because when they wear their school’s apparel they are immediately judged.</p>
<p>Umm wow, why do you guys even care?
I have no intention of even applying to Stanford, but I wear a sweatshirt from there maybe twice a month because it’s comfy and fits well. It’s a hand-me-down from my sister who vistied Stanford like 4 yrs ago on a college tour (she didn’t apply). </p>
<p>But if this is what all my classmates are thinking when I wear it, maybe I should’nt wear it as much. I don’t think I’m going to go there or anything, and I don’t want to give the impression that I’m being pretentious. I’m just too lazy and don’t want buy another sweatshirt when I have a perfectly good one.</p>
<p>Personally, the only shirts I wear are from colleges I applied to/seriously considered going to and ones that I have a personal connection to. (It’s not because I don’t like these other schools or think it’s wrong-I just don’t have the $10-20 shirt for those colleges)…</p>
<p>I’m pretty vain so I like to wear my Emory shirt (I doubt anyone knows what Emory is up here in Oregon though lol)</p>
<p>I like college shirts. Having shirts from a few colleges you applied to but didn’t end up going to is fine in my opinion; you can always wear them running, at the gym, or around the house, and they’re a good memory of the college search process*.</p>
<p>*This does not go for people wearing shirts from colleges that are/were way out of their league.</p>
<p>I just don’t see why anyone would have the desire to wear a shirt for a college they didn’t go to or have a personal connection to. It’s weird. Since so few people from my school go to HYPS (actually only 3 in the last 3 years), I tend to assume that anyone I see with a Harvard sweater or Yale face paint has no personal connection and is just weird.</p>
<p>Um - can’t wearing shirts from colleges you go to help facilitate connections with other people who go to the same college?</p>
<p>I mean, let’s say, you’re wearing a UChicago shirt and then someone goes “WOW YOU GO TO CHICAGO TOO?!?!?” It can be quite a bonding experience!</p>
<p>I didn’t know people cared so much…</p>
<p>I do wear gear from LSU, Syracuse, and Illinois. Why? Because I do have personal connections. But how the heck is anyone supposed to know that when walking down the street? If someone asks, sure, I’ll explain, but there’s no other way to know really.</p>
<p>What if a kid wears a Harvard shirt because his parents are alums? Maybe he’s not Harvard material, but he does have a personal connection. So where does that fall into all of your rules?</p>
<p>I say, wear whatever you like, and if someone gives you crap about it, they’re the one with a problem.</p>
<p>I don’t really care. Clothing is clothing :p</p>
<p>Lots of kids from my town wear sweatshirts from parents’ or siblings’ alma mater. It’s not a big deal.</p>
<p>However, there is this one girl who did a research program at Stanford last summer and now wears different variations of Stanford sweatshirt/sweatpants/t-shirt every day. I mean, I can understand why she is proud of her internship, but…really? T.T And the Stanford notebooks, folders, and binders really don’t help dispel the image either. And everytime she talks, she always finds a way to incorporate “so this one time while I was interning at Stanford…” </p>
<p>I would feel sorry for her if she gets rejected next year.</p>