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'''Is It College Yet?''' is the second ''Daria'' TV movie. Subsequent airing and its DVD release only provided it in an edited form. The movie shows the characters of [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria Morgendorffer's]] class as they approach their high-school graduation and look toward college.
==Summary==
This episode, roughly equivalent to three "normal length" episodes, concerns the characters attempting to make the life-altering decision of where to go to college. [[Jane Lane|Jane]] wants to go to [[Boston Fine Arts College]] (BFAC), but the pressure of doing an art portfolio for them makes it too difficult to produce any good art. Daria is between [[Bromwell]] (where [[Tom Sloane]] will be going pursuant to the family tradition), and [[Raft College]]. [[Trent Lane|Trent]] doesn't want Jane to go to college at all. The social class rift between Tom and Daria becomes increasingly obvious. [[Jodie Landon|Jodie]] attempts to convince her parents that, rather than going to Crestmore (a prestigious, if somewhat racially homogeneous, university her parents believe is her best option), she would be better suited to attend Turner (her father's alma mater with a more diverse student population), while [[Mack Mackenzie|Mack]] finds out he needs to win a scholarship to get into [[Vance University]]. [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] takes a job at [[Governors Park]] and meeting [[Lindy]], a college student with a drinking problem. [[Stacy Rowe|Stacy]] makes a wish that comes true, to the chagrin of [[Sandi Griffin|Sandi]], and she attempts to reverse the wish with amusing results. [[Kevin Thompson|Kevin]] gets some bad news about his future, and worries how it will affect his relationship with [[Brittany Taylor|Brittany]]. [[Timothy O'Neill|Mr. O'Neill's]] attempts to calm down [[Janet Barch|Ms. Barch]] on the fifth anniversary of her divorce makes Ms. Barch believe he's asking to marry her. [[Anthony DeMartino|Mr. DeMartino]] attempts to clear up the situation, with mixed results.▼
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This movie, roughly equivalent to three "normal length" episodes, concerns the characters attempting to make the life-altering decision of where to go to college. [[Jane Lane|Jane]] wants to go to [[Boston Fine Arts College]] (BFAC), but the pressure of doing an art portfolio for them makes it too difficult to produce any good art. Daria is between [[Bromwell]] (where [[Tom Sloane]] will be going pursuant to the family tradition), and [[Raft College]]. [[Trent Lane|Trent]] doesn't want Jane to go to college at all.
Daria and Tom Sloane break up for good at the movie's end. Daria gets into [[Raft College]] instead of [[Bromwell]], and convinces Jane to apply to BFAC, where Jane is accepted. Both girls plan to continue their friendship as time and schoolwork allow, and the movie ends on a high note with their toast to the future.▼
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▲Daria and Tom Sloane break up
==Trivia==
The various colleges the characters talk about being interested in have obvious parallels with real-life schools. Raft College, for example, is likely Tufts, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Boston, while Bromwell is probably Yale, given its distance from Boston and location of New Town (New Haven). Crestmore (described by Mack as "the dream of dreams") may be Harvard or a school of comparable quality in another part of the country, such as Stanford.
In Daria's speech at the end if this episode, we learn a little bit about her guiding philosophy, a loosely connected set of ideas that has kept her grounded, kept her Daria, in spite of her changing personality and changing circumstances.
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==''Is It College Yet?'' and Fanfic==
===Alternate Universe Versions of ''Is It College Yet?''===▼
In [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]] episode 22, [[Tomorrow Never Knows]], Tom and Jane never broke up, so it is Jane, rather than Daria, who accompanies Tom and his mother on the trip to Bromwell. Jane declares that it is "[t]o support Tom, who would otherwise be stuck discussing charity fundraisers every minute he and his mother were alone. Plus, Kay Sloane hates me." The trip is, predictably, a disaster, with Jane suggesting to Professor Woods that the Freshman Sobriety Center could be set on fire "as a controlled, dramatic art piece." Ultimately, Jane and Tom do break up, deciding that they get along better as friends. ▼
==External Links==
[http://www.outpost-daria.com/ts_iicy.html Transcript of ''Is It College Yet?'' at Outpost Daria] (includes sections removed in later showings and on the commercial DVD)
▲===Alternate Universe Versions of ''Is It College Yet?''===
▲In [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]] episode 22, [[Tomorrow Never Knows]], Tom and Jane never broke up, so it is Jane, rather than Daria, who accompanies Tom and his mother on the trip to Bromwell. Jane declares that it is "[t]o support Tom, who would otherwise be stuck discussing charity fundraisers every minute he and his mother were alone. Plus, Kay Sloane hates me." The trip is, predictably, a disaster, with Jane suggesting to Professor Woods that the Freshman Sobriety Center could be set on fire "as a controlled, dramatic art piece." Ultimately, Jane and Tom do break up, deciding that they get along better as friends.
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