<p>D1 has a Harvard hoodie and a few other H items, but her prized t-shirts and other stuff are her Winthrop House ones. When she graduated she gave me a crimson school tie, but the emblem on the tie is the Winthrop House shield not the Harvard shield. </p>
<p>Our neighbors down the street are major Nebraska Cornhusker people - kinda rare in SoCal. They had a large block N cut out in plywood, painted white, and installed it on the front of their house above the garage. They outlined it in red Christmas tree lights, and on game days they illuminate the lights.</p>
<p>A family in our town painted their garage/pole barn Illini Orange, the painted a large U of I symbol on the side. No doubt what school they loved. Ironically, none of their kids went to the school. They graduated from rival Purdue and IU.</p>
<p>If you’re concerned about people making snap judgments on you based on where you went to college, move to Baltimore. In that city, "where’d you go to school?’ most often refers to where did you go to HS? Even if you went to a prestigious UG and/or grad school, Charm City delineates people by their high school.</p>
<p>Baltimore magazine did a whole cover story on it a few years back. It finally explained to me some of my DH’s obsession with our kids’ (public) high school.</p>
<p>I actually don’t have bumper stickers but rather have a Alabama mom window cling; high school stickers from each year my kid attended and one from Paula deens restaurant. It used to be my dream that one of kids would go to Purdue and the other to Rice so I could have those stickers next to one another on my car. Nobody thinks that’s funny but me.</p>
<p>I am excited to find out there’s a sticker for the Disney College Program! I know what I’m telling d1 to bring me back in the spring :)</p>
<p>">>After some negotiation, they agreed to accept mugs and pens that say “Leverett House” or “Veritones.” Not Harvard.<<"</p>
<p>"D1 has a Harvard hoodie and a few other H items, but her prized t-shirts and other stuff are her Winthrop House ones. When she graduated she gave me a crimson school tie, but the emblem on the tie is the Winthrop House shield not the Harvard shield. "</p>
<p>When I lived in Cambridge that was one of the easiest ways to tell the students from the tourists. Tourists or prospective students wore t-shirts or sweatshirts with HARVARD emblazoned across them while current students almost invariably had clothing with the name of their house or of a specific event or club on them.</p>
<p>Put my KID’s sticker on MY car? We solved that problem when our oldest decided to attend H & my alma mater! We have our our other child’s college’s window cling on our cars as well.</p>
<p>I like having the window clings in our car. We get excited when we see others on the road with “our” colleges on the window, because one campus is 250 miles from us and the other is 800 miles away. It’s nice to know we have compatriots in our area.</p>
<p>I work at a hs. One day a parent stopped me because she saw the alma mater sticker on our car, and her child was considering applying there. I was able to answer some questions for her. The very next day another parent stopped me because of my other child’s college sticker on my car - her kid had that school on their list. Again, I was able to answer questions.</p>
<p>Putting school stickers on car window seem to be an US phenomenon. Soon after we moved overseas, we gave our driver D1’s college window sticker assuming he would know what to do with it. That evening when I got into the car I asked the driver what he did with the sticker because I didn’t see it in the rear car window. He proudly showed it to me - on the car’s rear bumper. It looked weird because it was backward. When I explained to him that it was meant for a car’s window. He thought it was a strange concept. But who knows, maybe I just started a new trend there.</p>
<p>You know those stickers that read “my kid and my money go to XYZ University”? I just want one that reads “My daughter and YOUR money go to XYZ University”. That’s one I’ll be proud to have on my truck.</p>
<p>I love having my kid’s college stickers on my rear windows and I love reading where others go to school. The stickers are on the outside of the window but are easily and completely removeable with a little heat from a blow dryer. I take them off when the kid graduates. My car currently has two stickers, a “UCF Mom” and a “Emory Mom”. I was sad to remove the “Gator Mom” one but D1 graduated in 2010 so it was no longer applicable to me or my car!</p>
<p>“D1 graduated in 2010 so it was no longer applicable to me or my car!”</p>
<p>Horrors! A person is a Gator forever, so their mom remains a Gator Mom.</p>
<p>I have seen people think it was a joke when Harvard came up. When the Veritones were performing at a resort near Chicago, someone asked about our audition process. Our president said, “You have to go to Harvard first,” and the questioner laughed. The president repeated, “We are all Harvard students,” and it took a few repeats before we convinced him we were serious. Whereupon he was completely weirded out.</p>
<p>I want one of those “rejected at MIT” stickers. I’m even going to get the stickers to go with it :)</p>
<p>One child really really really wanted his college sticker on the family car. So we put all the stickers. Then another kid said, “I don’t think we do that at my school” :eek:</p>
<p>When they graduated I removed all the stickers. yeah!!</p>
<p>The one child gave us a sticker for his grad school. I just said “no” ;)</p>
<p>I am thinking we need to temporarily remove our stickers. Our small house needs every kind of repair and remodeling imaginable, so the parade of contractors giving estimates has begun. The last guy commented on the schools featured on our car, possible trying to feel us out so he’d know what kind of quote he could get away with. Let’s see, small beat up house says they’re poor, but those are very expensive colleges. Hmm. Most people don’t understand how financial aid works at well-endowed schools. </p>
<p>I would have a really tough time putting certain college names on my car. For example, I couldn’t stomach affixing the decal of the rival of my alma mater, not only because of the rivalry, but also because their primary school color is unappealing (poop brown). Certain combinations with purple and orange are nauseating too. Also, I don’t want any “party school” decals on my car, so that would eliminate a few local colleges where high schoolers like to go to on weekends to drink. Penn State was number 1 on the national party school ranking list, so they’d be out too.</p>
<p>Lastly, it might cause me a little twinge to put on a decal from one of the less competitive state schools, especially the two near us that used to have different, less prestigious-sounding names. Their names seem dishonest somehow, as if they’re trying to hide the fact that they used to be ABC State.</p>
<p>To answer the OP, I would affix the decal to my car window of any college my kids chose to attend. For me, window decals are not about “bragging” rights, but more in terms of school spirit and pride in our offspring and just interesting to come across even on other people’s cars as well. In my town, it would not be seen as bragging. The schools my kids attended just are not common around here generally speaking. </p>
<p>My issue is that I have three window decals for D1 (undergrad plus two grad schools) and those are the kind that go on the outside of the window. D2’s undergrad school’s decal is the kind that only will adhere to the inside of the window and I have tinted windows and so it really can’t be seen, even though it is there. It looks like I only care about D1 (my kids don’t truly care though). </p>
<p>About the Harvard remarks, I actually DO get what parents or alum of that school are saying here. I went to grad school at Harvard. I go back and forth about wanting to admit it because frankly, it always gets a reaction in a wow sort of fashion and while it is a fact I attended and I may answer the question directly, it comes across to others as bragging and a big deal. Then, once they know, I find it gets thrown into my face from time to time, such as “well, a girl who went to Harvard blah blah blah…” I don’t really like that. </p>
<p>I noticed for a time that my D who went to undergrad at Brown, when asked where she goes to college, sometimes would say, “in Rhode Island.” I guess it depends which crowd she is in. Locally, it would be unusual and get a “wow” type of response. Among peers such as in grad school and so on, she likely admits it as it is not so unusual.</p>
<p>The term “well-endowed” has become so engrained in popular culture, it seems a little odd at first glance to see it applied to the word “schools.” ;)</p>