Lots of unhappiness and angst among alumni over the way the university is portrayed. ciscobarron.medium.com. Personally I bet Stanford is happy to get this popular culture exposure.
As off-key as the In The Heights portrayal may be, it doesn’t hold a candle to the plot twist in Hulu’s “Love Victor.” “The President of Stanford is retiring, and he called and offered me the job.” Yeahhhh, it SO does not work that way!!
The Stanford experience portrayed In The Heights was unfortunately very common, but I’m hoping it’s improved since my time. I was the only freshman in my dorm who had to work close to full-time, and I dealt with a jaw-dropping amount of ignorance from people who had no qualms telling me things like “aren’t you glad Taco Bell hires Mexicans so the food can be that much more authentic?” I was repeatedly mistaken for a food hall worker, and then be subjected to condescending apologies when I corrected people. Stanford talked a big game when it came to diversity but gave zero support to first generation students.
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I came here to vent but there’s already a thread! I’m sorry you had such bad experiences. But the episode about being searched by the parents and RA is just so not true. They would never do that (plus who brings expensive jewelry to a dorm? Especially where you wear T shirt and flip flop 80% of the time, the other 20% is a sweatshirt and sneakers)
Plus selling a business in order to pay for the tuition? That’s unrealistic especially Stanford has a need based financial aid.
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That was where you drew the line on incredulity? Not that the position started on any date other than 7/1? Not that Benji de-aged by 2 years? Or that basketball is apparently a fall sport at Creekwood? Or, my personal favorite, that nobody dropped the other f-bomb in the locker room or hallway? 
Burgerandfries: My wife is a Latina Stanford alum (and a former resident of the Stanford Chicanx/Latinx theme dorm Casa Zapata). We have many close Latinx friends from Stanford and fortunately none of them have shared experiences that are anything like you described. You must have attended Stanford quite some time ago because students no longer work in the dining halls (no one calls them “food halls”) and 17% of undergrads are Latino or Hispanic (minorities have made up a majority of undergrads at Stanford for a while now). Stanford’s far from perfect and I can’t account for anyone’s individual experience there but the description in this article is much closer to what my wife experienced: Sorry Lin-Manuel, that’s just not how Stanford works. | by Cisco Barrón | Medium