Mad Men
Peter Campbell (Pete)- Dartmouth '56
Peggy- Mrs. Deever’s Secretarial School
Don- Claims some night classes at City College, but he also says he never finished high school…
Betty- Anthropology at Bryn Mawr and then Psychology at Fairfield University.
Paul Kinsey- Princeton
Ken Cosgrove- Columbia
Arthur Case- Yale
All seven sister colleges are mentioned, most mentions are from Betty’s friends or neighbors if I recall correctly?
Mad Men’s children:
Sally: Miss Porters School (albeit not college but prep school)
Glen: Sally’s BF: Hotchkiss
My post got cut off - it seemed to imply that she could start Stanford in January if she go accepted early - which is of course ridiculous.
Mad Men:
Where did Roger Sterling go? I consider him one of the most compelling characters. Seems to have it all, but still feet of clay. John Slattery the actor that plays Roger was born in Boston, went to St. Seb’s and matriculated to Catholic University.
That’s all I have to go on. I like to think there is a bit of John in Roger.
Ok, with a little sleuthing: Roger is a former US Marine officer. He got his BA from Cornell (my alma mater) and an MBA from UT Austin…ivy grad
Hannah Montana Miley and Lily both got into Stanford!
@preppedparent "Mad Men’s children:
“Sally: Miss Porters School (albeit not college but prep school)
Glen: Sally’s BF: Hotchkiss”"
Dan Draper’s fancy Manhattan apartment mistress/neighbor/doctor-buddy’s-wife kid: UMich
Kid that’s Infatuated with Betty (and her hair, lol…) - Suny Purchase (kicked out and goes to Vietnam war to impress Betty…)
Mad Men’s creator: Matthew Weiner - Wesleyan
Mad Men’s producer and writer: Lisa Albert - Swarthmore
Professor Proton PhD Cornell.
His “nemesis” (real) Bill Nye, (real) BS Cornell
Sheldon (fictional) restraining order against (real) Carl Sagan, Cornell Prof (deceased)
Sam Winchester went to Stanford (I just started watching Supernatural and I’m OBSESSED!!!)
Gossip Girl- the character Dan could not afford Yale so he went to NYU! ( but he could live at home thus saving R&B)
Red Oaks:
Skye- Sarah Lawrence
David - NYU film major wannabe
Mr Burns-Yale
Kai from AHS-Yale
Ugh…
Frasier:
Frasier Crane-Harvard
Niles Crane-Yale
Bones:
Temperance Brennan-Northwestern
Angela Montenegro-UT Austin
Lance Sweets-Toronto, Temple, Penn, Columbia (4 degrees by the time he was 22)
Real Genius takes place at a fictional college called Pacific Tech which was to resemble Caltech.
New program – Amazon Prime streaming series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel- the title character is a Bryn Mawr grad (with Bryn Mawr featured briefly but prominently in opening sequences of the pilot).
Rejected from Harvard Law, accepted to Columbia Law - Rachel Zane from Suits, aka Meghan Markle aka Duchess of Sussex or HRH Princess Henry of Wales or something when she marries Prince Harry 
Her fiance on the show did NOT go to Harvard Law but had fake documentation saying he did.
Every other attorney at the firm went to Harvard Law, Louis Litt only hires HL grads.
For those that know, it 's a bit funny that they never mention Yale, which is widely considered #1 and has a much higher yield than Harvard.
Were having a family dinner the other day while watching a re-run of the movie, “Salt,” with Angelina Jolie as the main character, and my Princeton bound son and I started laughing when one scene in the movie popped up where this elderly Russian spy tells the young Salt to attend Princeton. Why Princeton, I don’t think the movie ever got into that. In real life, though, there were lots of Soviet spies hanging around Princeton back in the 50’s, including one that got into a relationship with Einstein.
As the drummer character finally says, “It’s division 3” The point is that the family is going on and on about this guy bragging about playing football at a school with a far-from-significant football program, which completely ignoring his accomplishment of being in the top jazz band at the top jazz school in the country.
His accomplishment is, in contrast, more like starting for Notre Dame. If he were a football player.
No insult to Carleton. Great school. 