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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.
The state Lawndale is in has ''two'' state universities, one just called "[[State University]]" and another called [[Lawndale State University]]. (State universities are the cheaper, state-funded places in America's college system)
It is also learned, indirectly, that [[Lawndale High]] seems to have a tradition of "Academic Achievement in the Face of Almost Total Misanthropy," as evidenced by the presentation of the [[Dian Fossey Award]]. Then again, it is quite possible that [[Angela Li|Ms. Li]] invented it, modified an existing award, or ad libbed the reference to "misanthropy" as a backhanded recognition of Daria.
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.
==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.
* 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 is confused to hear Daria only got a 15 minute interview when he got 45 minutes, not realising the latter isn't the norm - and if she goes to Crestmore Jodie will be rubbing shoulders with future politicians and business leaders.
* Daria can't rely on the family ties Tom has with her Bromwell application, a source of frustration. However, she is still going to a respectable college and the cost is never presented as a problem for her upper-middle class family.
* 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.
* Jane, from a family without much resources (and rarely present), is reluctant about applying to colleges for fear of rejection and views them as something that aren't for the likes of her. After being rejected by her safeties and using that as an excuse to not apply to BFAC, she gets defensive about her decision and accuses Daria of being elitist in assuming everyone has to go to college.
* Kevin, as he's not going to college, is likely to get dumped by Brittany because of his new low prospects.
(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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