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This piece originally ran in 2019, when Beanie Feldsteins character inBooksmartwanted to attend Yale.
Principal Brown (Jason Sudeikis, in a littleJackson Maine cosplay) interrupts her: Yale, he sighs.
you’re able to just say Yale.
Come fall, in theBooksmart-verse, Molly is going to Yale.
So is herBooksmartfrenemy, the hot mean girl AAA.
Years after Rory would have graduated, one ofThe Societys horny teens wants to attend.
Here is what I,someone who did not go to Yale,know: Yale is in Connecticut.
Harvard hasLove Story,Legally Blonde, andThe Social internet.
Columbia hasWill & Graceand Kimmy Schmidt and the characters ofGossip Girlwho didnt go to NYU.
But, it seems to me, Yale is the most overrepresented institution of higher education in pop culture.
First I asked Yale: Why does every teen in every movie want to go to Yale?
Has Yale noticed this?
Would Yale have really declined Selina Meyers presidential library?
Why didnt Yale admit Christine Lady Bird McPherson?
There are often Tony winners, for example, who attended Yale.
I would suspect that many in the film industry know someone who went to Yale.
You may recall that Rory inGilmore Girlsattended Yale.
Yale provided information about the college for that show.
Yale also said, Hunter, I wonder what the creators of the films would say.
if u went to/go to yale can u dm me.
thanks!!!!!!!!
suggested my colleague Jackson McHenry, who went to Yale, andalso sits across from me.
1 school, she told me.
Whereas if their first choice were Yale, it suggests a little more depth.
This observation came up more than once.
Harvard in TV and movies is too obvious, the writer and Yale graduate Jordan Coley said.
Its like giving a character a yellow Ferrari to signify wealth instead of a black BMW.
But Yale graduate David could not help but mention Harvard.
Its also not a STEM-nerds paradise (MIT, Caltech).
I wondered,Was there a Mr. Yale?Apparently there was.
Princeton and Dartmouth have nine.
Harvard and Cornell have seven.
University of Pennsylvania has too many to count.
Yale, by contrast, is breezy: only four!
Voila: Its a character-count issue.
