I went to a W school back in the early 2000's and we did this at the senior picnic

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid is getting snarky comments for going to UMD??

Well, I guess that is your fault for living in the snobby Whitman district.

My kids go to Einstein and kids that are ecstatic if they go to UMD. It's the top choice since it is the affordable in state flagship.

I agree the sweatshirt tradition is obnoxious.

No one is making snarky comments at Whitman or any other local school about attending UMD. It’s a great school and harder to get into every year.

You have no clue about the snarky comments.

The snobbishness of Whitman is way overstated on this board. Most families of teenagers in the neighborhood bought their homes in the late 90s or early 2000s when prices were a lot more reasonable. Parents tend to be duel income working professionals and thus fall in the donut hole. On average they have two kids. Private university tuition and board is roughly $80,000 a year and will only rise. So if there is a younger sibling that's roughly $700,000 in costs. No financial aid. Never mind grad or medical school. That's a lot of money even for the majority of Whitman families. And Maryland is a good school, particularly in CS and engineering. And if a kid intends to go to law or medical school it makes even more sense. No one at Whitman except the super-snoots looks down on anyone going to Maryland. In my experience, they tend to be good, thoughtful kids who understand that choices sometimes need to be made.

I was here in the early 2000s, and prices in the Whitman boundary in Bethesda were not reasonable then.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

Perhaps, but this practice is in bad taste.

No it’s not. There’s no reason kids can’t be proud of where they are going to college.

There's no reason kids can't be proud of where they are going to college without having a school-sponsored event where they're supposed to wear a shirt with the name of the college on it. Unless they're doing it for external validation, of course.

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Anonymous wrote:Your kid is getting snarky comments for going to UMD??

Well, I guess that is your fault for living in the snobby Whitman district.

My kids go to Einstein and kids that are ecstatic if they go to UMD. It's the top choice since it is the affordable in state flagship.

I agree the sweatshirt tradition is obnoxious.

No one is making snarky comments at Whitman or any other local school about attending UMD. It’s a great school and harder to get into every year.

You have no clue about the snarky comments.

The snobbishness of Whitman is way overstated on this board. Most families of teenagers in the neighborhood bought their homes in the late 90s or early 2000s when prices were a lot more reasonable. Parents tend to be duel income working professionals and thus fall in the donut hole. On average they have two kids. Private university tuition and board is roughly $80,000 a year and will only rise. So if there is a younger sibling that's roughly $700,000 in costs. No financial aid. Never mind grad or medical school. That's a lot of money even for the majority of Whitman families. And Maryland is a good school, particularly in CS and engineering. And if a kid intends to go to law or medical school it makes even more sense. No one at Whitman except the super-snoots looks down on anyone going to Maryland. In my experience, they tend to be good, thoughtful kids who understand that choices sometimes need to be made.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

Perhaps, but this practice is in bad taste.

No it’s not. There’s no reason kids can’t be proud of where they are going to college.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated Blair Magnet. No one wore college sweatshirts on May 1st, it was considered in terrible taste. Only shortly before graduation, and even then not everyone. One kid kept it private for weeks that she accepted an offer from HYPSM.

I am with you OP. The school should not be encouraging this, although perhaps the school may view admissions as their achievement, too.

This is so sad. Imagine being made to feel embarrassed that you’re going to a top school, simply because other people aren’t.

Can’t believe you think this is a good thing.

What's that advice people are providing on this thread? Oh, yes: grow thicker skin.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

No, it's because George Washington has been sneered at on DCUM many times.

Nah. If you were really happy with where your kid was going to school you wouldn’t give a shit about what anonymous strangers say. Pretty said for your kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow OP the US is imploding and this is what you focus on?

Schools all over the country have done this since before 1980

I did it in Florida in 1976

This tells you how OUTDATED this tradition is. Thank you!

Oh, grow up, Drama Queen.

Some people need a trigger warning just to crawl out of bed.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

No, it's because George Washington has been sneered at on DCUM many times.

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated Blair Magnet. No one wore college sweatshirts on May 1st, it was considered in terrible taste. Only shortly before graduation, and even then not everyone. One kid kept it private for weeks that she accepted an offer from HYPSM.

I am with you OP. The school should not be encouraging this, although perhaps the school may view admissions as their achievement, too.

This is so sad. Imagine being made to feel embarrassed that you’re going to a top school, simply because other people aren’t.

Can’t believe you think this is a good thing.

Time to teach your kid to grow thick skin. My oldest did an internship last summer where most of the interns were students at the same very (very!) expensive, selective college. My child goes to UMBC. The interns would reminisce with alums of their school at work & my DC was totally left out of that. They survived.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

Perhaps, but this practice is in bad taste.

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated Blair Magnet. No one wore college sweatshirts on May 1st, it was considered in terrible taste. Only shortly before graduation, and even then not everyone. One kid kept it private for weeks that she accepted an offer from HYPSM.

I am with you OP. The school should not be encouraging this, although perhaps the school may view admissions as their achievement, too.

Kids at Blair are thoughtful and seem to have both higher IQs and EQs.

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Ooh. I have to get a George Washington University t-shirt for my son. That way people like you can look down on him for going to what DCUM calls the "rich international losers' school". Never mind that we are, in fact, dual citizens, that George Washington is exactly the same price as Georgetown and other privates, and that there are way more international kids at NYU and elsewhere than at George Washington. Also, he got in with a generous scholarship.

But none of this can be added to the t-shirt, so you can just keep making stupid assumptions! I feel you're the type that loves to be outraged

Holy defensiveness! Someone isn’t comfortable about where their kid is going to college…

My kid graduated Blair Magnet. No one wore college sweatshirts on May 1st, it was considered in terrible taste. Only shortly before graduation, and even then not everyone. One kid kept it private for weeks that she accepted an offer from HYPSM.

I am with you OP. The school should not be encouraging this, although perhaps the school may view admissions as their achievement, too.