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The Morgendorffers visit some friends withwho aexpress daughterconcern andin witnessedpreparing thetheir worrydaughter theyfor havethe inSAT alreadytests provinding(despite thetheir toddlerdaughter withbeing a SAT preparation test,toddler) to make sureensure she'll attend the right college. Faced with that, [[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 imagines himself as a sucessfullysucessful QB; Brittany imagines recievingreceiving her diploma while walking inon a model runway; Jane imagines herself a sucessfullsucessful artist, having ditched college; Quinn imagines 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, all students have to visit a college, so Jake and Helen entusiaticallyenthusiatically decide to take their daughters to their Alma Mater, [[Middleton College]]. When they visit the campus a few days later, they are greeted by [[Heather]], their tour gide. The four quickly separate, however, as Helen and Jake want to check his old room and Quinn wants to check the fraternities.

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. Remebering suddenly 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. Her searches are fruitless, succedingsucceeding only in being arassedharassed by male students who are pledging fraternetiesfraternities. While this happenhappens, Jake visits the loansloan office, where he is informed of the huge valuehigh of college fees and offered information on possible student loans from, of all places, a candy store.

Meanwhile, Daria and Heather had ended 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, having separated earlier from Daria and Heather after having been mistaken for a fraternitysorority pledge, 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 "first-string exemption," ruleswhich allowingallows top athletes to never havinghavie to take exams (to his disgust); Daria and Quinn onlyargue about tellhow they had been thrown out, to the surprisechagrin of the teacherinstructor.

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