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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.
Daria and Tom Sloane break up at the movie's end, when she points out -- and Tom doesn't dispute -- that they've both lost interest in the relationship. The two decide to remain friends. 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.
===IICY and social class===▼
As noted in a review by [http://www.slate.com/?id=2060921 ''Slate'' columnist Emily Russbaum], who praised the film for being "a sharply funny exploration of social class... [homing] in on the elitism of the United States college system", the film shows the characters going off to very different paths after graduation based on their economic prospects ("unlike, say, the characters on [Beverly Hills] ''90210''").▼
* 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. One argument happens when Tom is lamenting her Bromwell objection and ignores (until calledon it) that she did get into Raft. Daria herself seems to suffer a 'class cringe' from the constant Bromwell talk, despairing over the failure and the lack of prospects she will have, compared to Tom, until Helen points out that Raft is an excellent school.
* Tom and Jodie, the richest members of the cast, are the ones going to highly elite colleges (though Jodie decides against Crestmore
* 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,
* 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. Meanwhil, the cost of college is also never mentioned as an issue by the upper-middle class Morgendorffers.▼
* Kevin is (rightly) worried that Brittany's going to dump him because she's going to college and he isn't; suddenly, he's 'lower' down the social tentpole than she is.
(The show also shows that the cheerleaders, due to their ''academic'' record, can only get into [[Great Prairie State University]].)▼
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Some fans believe that IICY? presents state universities in an overly bad light, presenting private universities as inherently better: Mack says the state university doesn't have a business school, Jane is disparaging of their art departments, Great Prairie State is presented as rubbish. However, "State University" and Lawndale State both reject Brittany and Jane because their grades aren't up to spec, and BFAC is presumed to be based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_College_of_Art_and_Design "MassArt"], a publicly-funded university (so presumably BFAC is publicly-funded as well).
In "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]", Brittany said theirs was an "eternal love that would last until graduation
Daria says that Jane told her State and Lawndale State's art departments "couldn't even draw Spunky". This references "[[The Daria Diaries]]", where the very dodgy "Jacques Picasso Art Correspondence School" would enroll you if you could copy a picture of Spunky the dog. Jane had applied for a laugh, drawing lots of mutated Spunkies.
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In promotion of the film, "Daria" appeared on the CBS Early Show for an interview.
▲==IICY and social class==
▲As noted in a review by [http://www.slate.com/?id=2060921 ''Slate'' columnist Emily Russbaum], who praised the film for being "a sharply funny exploration of social class... [homing] in on the elitism of the United States college system", the film shows the characters going off to very different paths after graduation based on their economic prospects ("unlike, say, the characters on [Beverly Hills] ''90210''").
▲* 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. If Jodie goes to Crestmore, she will be rubbing shoulders with future politicians and business leaders who "literally are running the country"; her father tells her this would make the rest of her life much easier.
▲* 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.
▲(The show also shows that the cheerleaders, due to their ''academic'' record, can only get into [[Great Prairie State University]].)
==The "Future Egos"==
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