Can you think of some pop culture references or characters who went to Ivy League schools or colleges from movies, TV shows, books, etc.
Oliver from Love Story - Harvard
Gabriella from High School Musical - Stanford
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Rudy Ruettiger, the movie Rudy, Notre Dame.
Knute Rockne, the 1940 movie Knute Rockne, All American. Ronald Reagan was also in this film.
“Princeton” in the Tony award winning musical Avenue Q, who went to, you guessed it, Princeton.
Also, while we’re on Broadway, and if we’re considering elite colleges and not just the Ivy League, the character Nina from In The Heights attends Stanford (her struggles there are a key plot element, in fact).
Most of the action in Legally Blonde centers around Harvard Law school.
Minnie Driver’s character in Good Will Hunting is graduating from Harvard and about to head to Stanford for med school.
Not a great selling point, but Andy from the Office was constantly referring to his time at Cornell.
Good Will Hunting - MIT
A little dated, but Rob Lowe’s character Sam Seaborn in the West Wing went to Princeton. He was supposedly in my class and at one point during the show’s heyday our class secretary mentioned what “Sam Seaborn” was doing in the class notes section of the alumni magazine.
Not Ivy but Fox Mulder (X-Files) went to Oxford.
Rory Gilmore from Gilmore Girls at Yale
Dr. Nick on the Simpsons went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College! Can’t beat that.
The Disney Channel movie A Cinderella Story was all about the main characters getting in to Princeton.
Alexis Castle from “Castle” - Columbia
The Social Network - Harvard
Risky Business - Princeton
Risky Business - “Looks like the University of Illinois”
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I think the fictional colleges are a lot more interesting.
Animal House - Faber
Back to School - Grand Lakes University
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Hudson University (Law and Order: SVU) is hands down the best (and most criminally active) fictional university ever.
Ted mosbey lily aldrin and Marshall Ericsson all attended Wesleyan in how I met your mother. Marshall also went to Columbia for law.
Thanks for sharing everyone!!
Current TV series Empire, Andre went to Wharton at Penn