Colleges in movies and tv shows

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<p>Top Chef Masters filmed a challenge in the Harwood dorm at Pomona College.</p>

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<p>Well, yes, but Animal House was inspired by Dartmouth.</p>

<p>[Animal</a> House at 30 - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124605877163763579.html]Animal”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124605877163763579.html)</p>

<p>But the location scenes were apparently filmed at U Oregon:</p>

<p>[National</a> Lampoon’s Animal House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon’s_Animal_House]National"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon’s_Animal_House)</p>

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<p>^ Duke was actually the first choice for the Animal House crew, but Duke denied them access to campus for inspiration…or so I’ve heard :)</p>

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<p>I think the movie “Proof” about a genius mathematician-gone-insane was filmed in Chicago, parts on the UChicago campus.</p>

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<p>And WUSTL. :)</p>

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<p>Part of “Mighty Ducks 3” was filmed at Carleton College. The Coen brothers have been filming their latest at St.Olaf.</p>

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<p>They were going to film the movie “The Most Pretentious People on the Planet” at Yale, but the administration said “We’re way way way too good for that.”</p>

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<p>In the 1953 version of Titantic, they sing the Cornell song, “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters” (I think as the ship sinks.)</p>

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<p>2001 Harvard Man - Obviously about Harvard but Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a Holy Cross cheerleader named Cindy who is dating the point guard for the Harvard basketball team.</p>

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<p>Back to Animal House, Oregon had refused to allow filming for another movie (maybe Love Story?) and realized what they had lost out on. The administrator (Dean, VP, whatever) decided not to make the same mistake twice, allowed Animal House to film there, not knowing what kind of film it was going to be!!!</p>

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<p>to MADad, the movie Oregon missed out on was The Graduate.</p>

<p>just watched an Animal House special the other day. :)</p>

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<p>Thanks jenx—I think the DVD extras mention that as well.</p>

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<p>More References to Tulane:</p>

<p>“Grey’s Anatomy” - Dr. Preston Burke attended Tulane for pre-med
“CSI: Miami” - Calleigh Duquesne attended Tulane as an undergrad
“Sex and the City” - Natasha (Mr. Big’s ex-wife) attended Tulane
“Architecture School” (Sundance Channel) - Focuses on UrbanBuild, a program for third-year students in the Tulane School of Architecture in which they design and build a house for a low-income family in post-Katrina New Orleans</p>

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<p>Marshall University- “We Are Marshall”</p>

<p>-True story about Marshall University’s football team.</p>

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<p>Stanford- “Full House.” Episode when DJ tried hard to study for the SAT so she can get into Stanford</p>

<p>Harvard- “Family Matters.” Laura gained admission but couldn’t go due to finances. Very heart-rendering episode.</p>

<p>NYU- I am legend filmed near NYU campus.</p>

<p>Dead Poet’s Society- Harvard & Princeton were mentioned</p>

<p>The Devil Wear Prada- Main character just graduated from Northwestern</p>

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<p>Michigan:</p>

<p>House MD: Dr. Lisa Cuddy went to Michigan as an undergrad.
Gregory House got his MD from the University of Michigan. </p>

<p>Entourage: Ari Gold got his joint degree JD/MBA from Michigan.</p>

<p>I’m not sure if they picked Michigan because the writers/producers had connections to the school, or if it’s just because they are jewish and Michigan happens to have a high Jewish population. </p>

<p>and Leo McGarry on the West Wing.</p>

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<p>Friends - NYU( ross geller, a prof. at NYU)
The perfect score- cornell i think
21: MIT+Harvard
George Lopez: the daughter(cant recall the name) gets rejected from columbia and g town.</p>

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<p>During orientation at Brown we show like a 5-10 minute video mash-up of many of the references to Brown on TV and in film.</p>

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<p>^ That sounds kind of lame.</p>

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<p>It’s actually kind of cool. It’s right before the talent show they do, it’s actually on accepted students day, not orientation, it’s a student made video they redo every couple of years, and it’s the “introduction” to either the president or dean of admissions speaking (not sure which).</p>

<p>There are some really funny references, and those are the ones they go after. The one in the Simpsons stands out in particular.</p>