Raft College

Raft College is a fictional school in Boston to which Daria Morgendorffer applied in Is It College Yet?.

In Is It College Yet
Raft was Daria's second choice school after Bromwell, and even though she was unable to meet with any of the faculty, due to Bromwell-related delays in her college tour with Tom Sloane and his mother Sloane, she received her acceptance to Raft on the same day she received notification from Bromwell that she was waitlisted. Despite the efforts of the Sloanes, Daria does not get into Bromwell and decides to attend Raft. She makes it clear, however, that she is not settling, and is genuinely excited (well as excited as Daria gets) to be going, especially when she finds out that Jane Lane will be attending Boston Fine Arts College.

Real Life Counterparts
The Boston area is notable for having numerous colleges, so making a guess at Raft's counterpart is somewhat difficult. Harvard, Boston's Ivy League school, is unlikely, since it would likely be equal in prestige to "Bromwell," which is seen my many as an analogue to Yale. Given that Raft is Daria's second choice school and often described as "top school," Tufts is a good possibility. Boston University is also a possible choice as it's within the city limits (while Tufts is in neary Somerville), but the Raft brouchure is described as showing "kids on the quad," and Boston University has no proper campus. Other possibilities include Boston College, Brandeis, and Northeastern.