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* Daria and Tom are growing apart because the economic gulf, and the different views on their college paths because of it, are something Daria can't handle and Tom doesn't appear to fully grasp.
* Tom and Jodie, the richest members of the cast, are the ones going to highly elite colleges (Jodie decides against Crestmore but not for monetary reasons). Tom is assisted by family ties to the college, which gives him a great advantage - he got a 45 minute interview (the film indicates this is an oddly long time) and is ''stunned'' to hear Daria only got a 15 minute interview, then sounds embarrassed.
* Andrew Landon states that he went to Turner because, as a black student in the early-to-mid 60s, he "had to" go to a 'black' college, and that this gave him less options in life than somewhere more elite could have.
* Daria can't rely on the family ties Tom has with her Bromwell application, a source of frustration, and she spends part of the film believing it's a failure to get into Raft because it's not the highly touted Bromwell. Helen remarks that some applicants have "certain ''edge'' over the rest of us", and Jake has a brief outburst against perceived Bromwell snobbery when Daria is rejected. However, despite all this, she is still going to an excellent college and the cost is never presented as a problem (or even mentioned) for her upper-middle class family. She is put out when she's accused of being snobby and assuming people need to go to college.
* Mack's family can only afford to send him to a state university, even though it doesn't have the courses he wants. He is only able to get into Vance, his preferred college, through a scholarship.
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