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The Morgendorffers visit [[Doug and Susan|some friends]] who express concern inare preparing their daughter [[Ramona]] for the SAT tests (despite their daughter being a toddler) to ensure she'll attend the right college. Faced withAfter the that,visit [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] and [[Jake Morgendorffer|Jake]] decide to enroll [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] in a college prep course, to the annoyance of both girls.

The prep course is held at [[Lawndale High]] and includes several freshman and sophomore students. The instructor 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 sucessfulsuccessful QB; [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]] imagines receiving her diploma while walking on a model runway; [[Jane Lane|Jane ]]imagines herself a sucessfulsuccessful 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 freshman (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 enthusiaticallyenthusiastically 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 reminisce 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 mores 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, succeedingand she succeeds only in being harassed by male students who are pledging fraternities. While this happensMeanwhile, Jake visits the loan office, where heand is informedconfused ofby all the highfees, ofbut collegethe feesAssistant andBursar offeredis informationready onto possibledirect studenthim loansto from,a of"family" allbusiness places,with a candy''wide storevariety'' of interests that offer really good loans to people like him. "You play the ponies, Jake?"

Meanwhile, Daria and Heather had endedend up in the Heather's room, where Daria can see college student life firsthand: watching [[Sick, Sad World]] and, according to Heather, working a stupid job and asking the parents for money. When Heather receives her term paper by mail, full of mistakes, Daria turns it into an opportunity to make fast money, as she offers to rewrite or correct 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 sorority pledge, and later ends up at a party. She teaches some frat boys a drinking game and ends up later being hailed as "Keg Queen". It is while she is being hailed as such that the rest of her family, along with the police, finally find her. The relief of finding her is brief, as they are all thrown off campus by the police for allowing a minor into a frat party.

Later, back at the prep course in Lawndale, the students relate their experiences: Kevin tells of a hazing he was subjected to (to his delight); Brittany relates a [[poetry]] reading she attended and participated in; [[Mack Mackenzie|Mack]] mentions the "first-string exemption," which allows top athletes to never haviehave to take exams (to his disgust); Daria and Quinn argue about how they had been thrown out of Middleton, to the chagrin of the instructor.

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.