^^^^ Now I’m going to go hunt for posts by a CC user named @carmelasoprano or @tonyswife
Undergradute schools from Grey’s Anatomy: Meredith Grey (Darmouth), Derek (Bowdoin), Christina (Smith), Bailey (Wellesley). The creator, Shonda Rimes, is a Dartmouth grad.
On Glee, Quinn Fabray goes to Yale. Most of the characters go to a fictional arts school, NYADA, that may be loosely based on the Academy of Dramatic Arts kind of melded with Tisch. Brittany, who turns out to be an idiot savant-like mathematical genius, goes to MIT for a while, but leaves.
On the show Everwood, I was terminally frustrated by Ephram blowing off his Julliard audition because of Madison. Oh, and that reminds me: Amy gets into Princeton because Ephram submits her application for her.
Love Story - Harvard and Radcliffe!
Brad Bottig (Sue Heck’s friend) from the middle went to NYU then transferred to a state college in the middle.
Thirtysomething’s Hope was a Princeton alum. Don’t remember where Michael and Elliot went, or even the other characters’ names. Reading this thread is fun, so many old shows.
James Kirk graduated from Starfleet Academy.
Just watched the premiere episode of season 3 of OUTLANDER. Two major characters at Harvard - Frank teaching and Brianna as a student.
Sidd Finch went to Harvard, although he didn’t graduate from there. Man, could that guy throw, but ultimately chose the French Horn over baseball.
@lefthandofdog: thirtysomething’s Michael went to Penn, and his business partner Elliot studied graphic design at RISD. I miss that show. They really need to do a fiftysomething (or sixtysomething!).
@ChoatieMom, I had a love-hate relationship to that show. I used to refer to it as “smarmysomething” but I still watched it!
“Stephen Colbert” of the The Colbert Report graduated in the top 47% of his class at Dartmouth. The real Stephen Colbert graduated from Northwestern.
Many people know Kent State thanks to Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
^And that shooting incident…
Right, same (song is about the shooting).
I am just old enough that watching news reports about the Kent State shooting is one of my earlier memories. I have no knowledge about Kent State other than that incident (and the song).
Actually it was Buffalo Springfield that did the song “For What It’s Worth” in 1967. Stephen Stills and Neil Young were mainstays in that group along with Richie Furay (guitar & vocals), Dewey Martin (drums) and Bruce Palmer (bass). After Buffalo Springfield broke up in 1968, Stills joined David Crosby (formerly of the Byrds) and Graham Nash (formerly of the Hollies) in Crosby, Stills and Nash. Neil Young launched a solo career but rejoined Stills & company in 1969 to form Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
@bclintonk I’m not sure what you’re saying? That Ohio wasn’t about Kent State or that CSNY didn’t perform it?
For What it’s Worth was written before Kent State happened. Ohio was written after it, about it, by CSNY. Specifically, Neil Young.
^ Ah, you’re right, of course. I was mixing up the two songs in my own mind.
HBO’s Silicon Valley, college selection of characters is pure genius (IMO):
Richard: Stanford (didn’t graduate)
Bighead: University of Oklahoma (didn’t graduate)
Jared: Vassar
Erlich: Berkeley, Reed, Hampshire College
Gilfoyle: McGill, MIT
Dinesh: Yale, Caltech, Oxford
Monica: Princeton, Stanford School of Business
Laurie: MIT, Wharton College of Business
Ron: UCLA, Yale
Peter: Cornell, Harvard Business School, Caltech
Gavin: Stanford
Jack: Dartmouth, Wharton College of Business
Mad Men’s college selection was awesome too. Will try to find it later (if someone
Harald and Kumarr go to a party at Princeton. And Kumarr interviews for Cornell med school in a hilariously bad interview.
Alexis Castle is deferred from Stanford, but does get in regular decision. She ends up at Columbia. If I remember correctly they seemed to imply that since she was planning on graduating from high school a semester early that she would be able to