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The Morgendorffers visit friends[[Doug withand aSusan|some daughterfriends]] andwho witnessedare thepreparing worrytheir theydaughter have[[Ramona]] infor alreadythe provindingSAT thetests toddler(despite withtheir adaughter SATbeing preparationa test,toddler) to make sureensure she'll attend the right college. Faced withAfter that,the visit [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] and [[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]] decide to enroll [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] in a college prep course, overto the annoyance of both girls.

The prep course is held at [[Lawndale High]] and includes several freshmeenfreshman and sophmoresophomore students. The teacherinstructor coaches them on how to take PSAT exams and invites them to consider what they want out of college. Students daydream about their college future life: [[Kevin Thompson|Kevin]] imagines himself as a sucessfullysuccessful QB; [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] imagines recievingreceiving her diploma while walking inon a model runway; [[Jane Lane|Jane ]]imagines herself a sucessfullsuccessful artist, having ditched college; Quinn imagines herself being the roommate/object of desire for three good-looking male students; Daria imagines being invited to go to grad school while still a freshmenfreshman (however, even in her fantasy, the rationale for the invitation disappoints her).

Also, as part of the course, allAll students have to visit a college as part of the course, so Jake and Helen entusiaticallyenthusiastically decide to take their daughters to their Alma''alma Matermater'', [[Middleton College]]. When they visit the campus a few days later, they are greeted by [[Heather]], their tour gideguide. The four quickly separate, however, as Helen and Jake want to check his old room and Quinn wants to check the fraternities and sororities.

Helen and Jake reminescencereminisce in his old room, whose student occupants seem only to hang out, listen to loud music, surf the web and pay no attention whatsoever to the visitors. RemeberingSuddenly suddenlyremembering the sexual moarsmores of college students, Helen rushes out in a panic, searching for Quinn, asking students of her daughter's whereabouts and posting notices. HerHelen's searches are fruitless, succedingand she succeeds only in being arassedharassed by male students who are pledging fraternetiesfraternities. While this happenMeanwhile, Jake visits the loansloan office and is confused by all the fees, wherebut hethe Assistant Bursar is informedready ofto thedirect hugehim valueto a "family" business with a ''wide variety'' of collegeinterests feesthat offer really good loans to people like him. "You play the ponies, Jake?"

Meanwhile, Daria and Heather had endedend up in the laterHeather's room, where Daria can see first hand college studentsstudent life firsthand: watching [[Sick, Sad World]] and, according to Heather, working a stupid job and asking the parents for money. AWhen termHeather paperreceives senther toterm Heatherpaper by mail, full of mistakes, quicklyDaria providesturns Dariait into an opportunity to cashmake somefast money, as she startsoffers re-writtingto rewrite or correctingcorrect papers for the ignorant and/or lazy college students.

As this happens, Quinn, havingout separatedon earlierher own from Dariathe andrest Heatherof afterher havingfamily, beenis mistaken for a fraternitysorority pledge, and later ends up inat a party. She isteaches ablesome tofrat change the rules ofboys a drinking game and ends up later being hailed as "Keg Queen,". a situationIt inis whichwhile she is being hailed as such that the otherrest Morgendorffersof andher family, along with the police, eventuallyfinally find her. The relief of fidingfinding her is brief, as they are all thrown out of theoff campus by the police for allowing a minor ininto fraternitya partiesfrat party.

Later, back at Lawndale and the prep course in Lawndale, allthe students relate their experiences: Kevin telstells of a hazing he was subjected to (to his delight); Brittany tells ofrelates a [[poetry]] meetingreading she attended and participated in; [[Mack Mackenzie|Mack]] tellsmentions ofthe rules"first-string allowingexemption," which allows top athletes to never havinghave to take exams (to his disgust); Daria and Quinn onlyargue tellabout how they had been thrown out of Middleton, to the surprisechagrin of the teacherinstructor.

Later that day,Back at home, the Morgendorffers celebrate the invitation Quinn has recievedreceived for [[Manatee College]], in Florida... until Daria points out the college providessprovides no classes, only accomodationaccommodation for an extremely high price. The conversation is interrupted by a college MidletonMiddleton student, who has come to provide payment for some of Daria's papers: this quickly leads Helen in confiscating the money and ending thisher money-making activity, as Daria laments later over pizza with Jane.

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