Of course! Most of the time, you end up getting free attire - shirts, hoodies, etc. just from attending events on campus anyway. So buying those things is just dumb. I think the only things I actually bought were some mugs for my parents and a keychain for myself...on sale. Everything else was just given to me.
You are NOT kidding!!
It was like 8 hours of freaking Christmas at each college visit when my son was touring colleges last year. We would come home each time with a backpack/bookbag they provided that we filled with every goodie you can imagine.
I currently have enough college-themed pens, cups, mugs, sticky note pads, highlighters, t-shirts, hoodies, hats, winter gloves, lanyards, ear-freaking muffs,
, magnets, and just about anything or gadget you could ever imagine, to literally last until the next ice age. I have no shame admitting I was like a kid in a candy store bringing my haul home each time!!