<p>My daughter and I also assumed that the character would be attending Stanford (family living in LA, length of drive, high achiever). My daughter thought it was nice that it wasn’t specified, though. She felt that too often in movies when you have a smart kid going off to college it’s an Ivy or Stanford, not so much MIT, as if though these were the only schools worth going to. I think it’s just shorthand for “this is a smart kid” as those schools have name recognition for most people.</p>