<p>I thought this would make for a fun thread for recent admits and those waiting for their decision. I can think of two off the top of my head:</p>
<p>Orange County</p>
<p>Episode of the Simpsons where the family teases Lisa, "Lisa is going to Stanford! Lisa is going to Stanford!" and Lisa cries, "No! It's not an ivy league!"</p>
<p>High School Musical 3</p>
<p>hahahaha I've seen that episode of the simpsons! I love Lisa :)</p>
<p>According to my mom, in the beginning of Eagle Eye, Shia Labouff's (spelling?) dad says something along the lines of "Hey, I pulled some strings and got you back into Stanford. There's nothing like a Stanford education."</p>
<p>^ and ^^^</p>
<p>This may mean I have to watch two films I never intended on viewing...</p>
<p>Chuck Bartkowski, the central character in "Chuck" (NBC TV series), got kicked out of Stanford after his roommate and best friend accused him of cheating (falsely). Chuck's high-achieving sister is always after him to return to Stanford and complete his degree, rather than continue working as a customer service supervisor in a store that looks a lot like a Best Buy.</p>
<p>Brook Lopez (New Jersey Nets) and his twin brother Robin Lopez (Phoenix Suns) attended and played basketball for Stanford last year, and now both play in the NBA.</p>
<p>The Tony</a> Almeida character on 24 got a Masters in Computer Science at Stanford.</p>
<p>High School Musical 3 had all of about 10 seconds of footage from Stanford, if that. Most of the "Stanford" scenes were shot on constructed sets that only vaguely look like Stanford.</p>
<p>Also, the Lopez twins both acted in Gaieties during their time here.</p>
<p>In Disney's movie, "Cars," the final racetrack has architecture eerily similar to Stanford's. Specifically, spanish-styled red roofing as well as a Hoover Tower look-alike in the distance.</p>
<p>In "The Devil Wears Prada", Andrea's dad asks her how she can be an assistant when she got into Stanford Law.</p>
<p>While not really pop culture, Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion involves a girl at Stanford who leaves to marry a backwoods logger in Oregon. They have a son called Leland Stanford Stamper who becomes the main character. </p>
<p>Also, I was just reading the onion and one article was titled "Soup Kitchen Volunteers Hate Application Padding Brat". It was about a kid dead set on getting in to Stanford.</p>
<p>I just remembered this one last night:</p>
<p>In Party of Five, a teen melodrama from the mid-late 90s about five orphans raising each other in San Francisco, child #3 Julia gets accepted to Stanford and then attends for the last few seasons. There were a handful of location shots filmed at Stanford, and plenty of plot lines involving her college friends and an ambiguous relationship with one of her teachers.</p>
<p>Party of Five was a pretty good show, pitched somewhere in between My So-Called Life and The Gilmore Girls on the angstometer. It had, in retrospect, a terrific cast: The central characters were played by Matthew Fox (Lost), Neve Campbell (Scream), Scott Wolf (Go), and Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls), with substantial continuing characters Jeremy London and a pre-cheesy Jennifer Love Hewitt. Generally worth watching, although it steadily lost energy when Julia went to Stanford and Hewitt got her own (quickly cancelled, and very cheesy) spin-off.</p>
<p>I watched Eagle Eye a few weekends back at a friend's house. Ugh...it was awkward/funny whenever Stanford was brought up.</p>
<p>Whenever you see an HP, Google, or Yahoo! logo, you are seeing a child of Stanford graduates.</p>
<p>I must say, I (sadly?) consider myself to be a film snobbishy person, but I really did enjoy Orange County.</p>
<p>And that's immediately what I thought of.</p>
<p>I also liked Orange County.</p>
<p>Eli Stone, whom I adore, went to Stanford Law.</p>
<p>Amanda Brown wrote Legally Blonde based her experiences at Stanford Law.</p>
<p>In The Rundown, with The Rock, the guy (forgot his name..who Sean William Scott plays) The Rock is trying to kidnap is a Stanford dropout.</p>
<p>I thought this was funny - Money</a> worries for Harvard University | Education | The Guardian - The Guardian mistakenly cited Stanford as an Ivy League institution lol :-P I have gotten the question "stanford is the only west coast ivy league, right?" so many times since December.</p>