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* The ''Sweet Valley University'' series employs this trope, being a sequel to the ''Sweet Valley High'' series.
** Apparently their entire LimitedSocialCircle chose SVU regardless of academic ability or financial means, and everyone further chose to live in dorms even though ''they live in Sweet Valley.''
** Apparently their entire LimitedSocialCircle chose SVU regardless of academic ability or financial means, and everyone further chose to live in dorms even though ''they live in Sweet Valley.''
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* The ''Sweet Valley University'' series employs this trope, being a sequel to the ''Sweet Valley High'' series.
**series. Apparently their entire LimitedSocialCircle chose SVU regardless of academic ability or financial means, and everyone further chose to live in dorms even though ''they live in Sweet Valley.''Valley''.
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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': This is the TropeNamer; in ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'', Zack, Slater, and Screech wound up together at California University, as did Kelly starting in the second episode. This was despite the fact that they explicitly say near the end of the high school series that Slater was going to the University of Iowa, Screech was going to Caltech, and Zack was going to ''Yale''. Screech and Slater would most assuredly had scholarships (academic and wrestling/football/basketball/track, respectively. If Zack didn't, his family certainly could have afforded it.
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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': This is the TropeNamer; in ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'', Zack, Slater, and Screech wound up together at California University, as did Kelly starting in the second episode. This was despite the fact that they explicitly say near the end of the high school series that Slater was going to the University of Iowa, Screech was going to Caltech, and Zack was going to ''Yale''. Screech and Slater would most assuredly have had scholarships (academic and wrestling/football/basketball/track, respectively.respectively). If Zack didn't, his family certainly could have afforded it.
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* In Creator/SarahDessen's novels, the university (it's just called The U) is almost always mentioned, at least as a choice for the main characters to go. In real life in the U.S., "the U" may be short for the nearest large university: the University of Miami if you live in Florida (or are a college sports fan), the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities if you live in Minnesota.
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* In Creator/SarahDessen's novels, the university (it's just called The U) is almost always mentioned, at least as a choice for the main characters to go. In real life in the U.S., "the U" may be short is often used in locally for the nearest large university: the University of Miami if you live in Florida (or are a college sports fan), the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities if you live in Minnesota.
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* The imaginary ''Stan'''d'''ford University'' in which Miley and Lilly enroll in the final season of ''Series/HannahMontana'' is one. A "Stanford University" ''does'' exist, though.
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* The imaginary ''Stan'''d'''ford University'' in which Miley and Lilly enroll in the final season of ''Series/HannahMontana'' is one. A "Stanford University" ''does'' exist, though.''Series/HannahMontana'', which might also count as a BlandNameProduct for the real (and very elite) Stanford University.
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* the ''{{Franchise/LawAndOrder}}'' series set in New York (that is, all of the American series except ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'') often feature the fictional Hudson University as the city's generic school. It mostly blends elements of Columbia University and New York University, with a bunch of other [=NYC=] schools thrown in, as filming for the fictional campus has been done on multiple school campuses around the city. (It even has been shown to have a small laboratory-sized nuclear reactor on campus, which is TruthInTelevision – Manhattan College actually did have one in the basement of its engineering school from 1964 to 1997.) In addition to having pretty much any college-related plot take place at the school (which makes it a pretty dang dangerous school), multiple family members of the various lead characters have attended over the decades of the series. You would think the detectives would warn them that it's so dangerous.
** Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, other series set in New York have also used it as it's a plausibly generic name for a school in New York City (which sits on the Hudson River).
** Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, other series set in New York have also used it as it's a plausibly generic name for a school in New York City (which sits on the Hudson River).
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* the ''{{Franchise/LawAndOrder}}'' series set in New York (that is, all of the American series except ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'') often feature the fictional Hudson University as the city's generic school. It mostly blends elements of Columbia University and New York University, with a bunch of other [=NYC=] schools thrown in, as filming for the fictional campus has been done on multiple school campuses around the city. (It even has been shown to have a small laboratory-sized nuclear reactor on campus, which is TruthInTelevision – Manhattan College actually did have one in the basement of its engineering school from 1964 to 1997.) In addition to having pretty much any college-related plot take place at the school (which makes (basically making it a pretty dang dangerous school), the most crime-ridden college in America), multiple family members of the various lead characters have attended over the decades of the series. You would think the detectives would warn them that it's so dangerous.
** Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, otherseries media set in New York have also used it as it's a plausibly generic name for a school in New York City (which sits on the Hudson River). The 1970 film ''[[Film/RPM1970 R. P. M.]]'' might be the UrExample.
* Whittendale University has been used in dozens of [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek original movies]] on Creator/{{Lifetime}}, though the details of the school often change in each movie. Some have it as a large university, others as a small, ultra-elite college. Some movies place it in California, others (like ''Film/SororityMurder'') have it as a New England UsefulNotes/IvyLeague knockoff. The one consistent detail is that it's a magnet for young, pretty {{Ingenue}} women, who either attend the school and face hazards like {{Yandere}} classmates or SinisterSororitySisters, or, if they're in still in high school, they want to attend Whittendale but often have their plans derailed by the scheming of AlphaBitch rivals or the unfortunate temptation of TeacherStudentRomance. Other fictionalized colleges with names like Spencer University or Tate Riley University are also used in Lifetime movies.
** Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, other
* Whittendale University has been used in dozens of [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek original movies]] on Creator/{{Lifetime}}, though the details of the school often change in each movie. Some have it as a large university, others as a small, ultra-elite college. Some movies place it in California, others (like ''Film/SororityMurder'') have it as a New England UsefulNotes/IvyLeague knockoff. The one consistent detail is that it's a magnet for young, pretty {{Ingenue}} women, who either attend the school and face hazards like {{Yandere}} classmates or SinisterSororitySisters, or, if they're in still in high school, they want to attend Whittendale but often have their plans derailed by the scheming of AlphaBitch rivals or the unfortunate temptation of TeacherStudentRomance. Other fictionalized colleges with names like Spencer University or Tate Riley University are also used in Lifetime movies.
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Often a case of CaliforniaDoubling, in which the UCLA campus, or less often, those of USC or Loyola Marymount University, serves as a convenient shooting location for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles-based productions. A case of TruthInTelevision, given that the Golden State has the largest and best-known public higher education systems in the United States.[[note]]Yes, we mean "systems". The largest is the California Community Colleges, consisting of over 100 two-year colleges with over 1.6 millon students. That's more than twice the combined enrollment of the state's two public university systems—the University of California (the best-known system), with over 250,000 students, and California State University, with about 460,000.[[/note]]
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Often a case of CaliforniaDoubling, in which the UCLA campus, or less often, those of USC or Loyola Marymount University, serves as a convenient shooting location for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles-based productions. A case of TruthInTelevision, given that the Golden State has the largest and best-known public higher education systems in the United States.[[note]]Yes, we mean "systems". The largest is the California Community Colleges, consisting of over 100 two-year colleges with over 1.6 millon students. That's more than twice the combined enrollment of the state's two public university systems—the University of California (the best-known system), with over 250,000 students, and California State University, with about 460,000.[[/note]]
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Not to be confused with California's two actual public university systems, the University of California and California State University, nor with the California University [[NonindicativeName in the state of Pennsylvania]], which was merged along with two other schools into Pennsylvania Western University, branded as [=PennWest=], in 2022.[[note]]It's in the UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}-area borough of California, which was founded in 1849, the year of the California Gold Rush. [=PennWest=], in full Pennsylvania Western University, is actually one of 10 universities within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education—which is not to be confused with Pennsylvania State University, which is part of a separate public university system.[[/note]]
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Not to be confused with California's two actual public university systems, the University of California and California State University, nor with the California University [[NonindicativeName in the state of Pennsylvania]], which was merged along with two other schools into Pennsylvania Western University, branded as [=PennWest=], in 2022.[[note]]It's in the UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}-area borough of California, which was founded in 1849, the year of the California Gold Rush. [=PennWest=], in full Pennsylvania Western University, is actually one of 10 universities within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education—which is not to be confused with Pennsylvania State University, which is part of a separate public university system.[[/note]]
[[/note]][[labelnote:Also]]Incidentally, the largest higher education system in the US is the state's ''other'' public higher education system—the California Community Colleges, consisting of over 100 two-year institutions with more than 1.6 million students—more than twice as many as the UC and Cal State systems ''combined''.[[/labelnote]]
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Often a case of CaliforniaDoubling, in which the UCLA campus, or less often, those of USC or Loyola Marymount University, serves as a convenient shooting location for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles-based productions. A case of TruthInTelevision, given that the Golden State has the largest and best-known public higher education system in the United States.
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Often a case of CaliforniaDoubling, in which the UCLA campus, or less often, those of USC or Loyola Marymount University, serves as a convenient shooting location for UsefulNotes/LosAngeles-based productions. A case of TruthInTelevision, given that the Golden State has the largest and best-known public higher education system systems in the United States.
States.[[note]]Yes, we mean "systems". The largest is the California Community Colleges, consisting of over 100 two-year colleges with over 1.6 millon students. That's more than twice the combined enrollment of the state's two public university systems—the University of California (the best-known system), with over 250,000 students, and California State University, with about 460,000.[[/note]]
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The University of Albuquerque in High School Musical is fictional. The real school of that name closed in the 1980s.
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* Surprisingly averted by, of all things, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', whose ending sees Ryan and Kelsi being sent to Juilliard, Taylor to Yale, Chad and Sharpay to the University of Alberquerque, Gabriella to Stanford, and Troy to UC Berkeley. Not to say that the choice of colleges for the characters isn't problematic in [[IvyLeagueForEveryone a different way]].
* Elle Woods of ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' starts the movie as a student at [=CULA=] as both [=USC=] and [=UCLA=] refused to allow their names to be used out of fear of stereotyping. Harvard, where Elle goes after deciding to become a lawyer, had no such issues and allowed the use of their name.
* Elle Woods of ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' starts the movie as a student at [=CULA=] as both [=USC=] and [=UCLA=] refused to allow their names to be used out of fear of stereotyping. Harvard, where Elle goes after deciding to become a lawyer, had no such issues and allowed the use of their name.
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* Surprisingly averted by, of all things, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', whose ending sees Ryan and Kelsi being sent to Juilliard, Taylor to Yale, Chad and Sharpay to the University of Alberquerque, Gabriella to Stanford, and Troy to UC Berkeley. Chad and Sharpay, however, go to the fictional University of Albuquerque (which once ''did'' exist, but closed in 1986).[[note]]If the writers went through the trouble to send the characters to real universities, why didn't they have Chad and Sharpay go to the University of New Mexico, which ''is'' in [[UsefulNotes/{{Albuquerque}} the very city]] the film is set?[[/note]] Not to say that the choice of colleges for the characters isn't problematic in [[IvyLeagueForEveryone a different way]].
* Elle Woods of ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' starts the movie as a student at[=CULA=] CULA as both [=USC=] USC and [=UCLA=] UCLA refused to allow their names to be used out of fear of stereotyping. Harvard, where Elle goes after deciding to become a lawyer, had no such issues and allowed the use of their name.
* Elle Woods of ''Film/LegallyBlonde'' starts the movie as a student at
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Not to be confused with California's two actual public university systems, the University of California and California State University, nor with the California University [[NonindicativeName in the state of Pennsylvania]], which was merged along with two other schools into the [=PennWest=] system Pennsylvania Western University, branded as [=PennWest=], in 2022.[[note]]It's in the UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}-area borough of California, which was founded in 1849, the year of the California Gold Rush. [=PennWest=], in full Pennsylvania Western University, is actually one of 10 universities within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education—which is not to be confused with Pennsylvania State University, which is part of a separate public university system.[[/note]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has "State University", where Rusty, Brock, Pete White, the Monarch, and even Baron Ünderbheit (as an exchange student) all attended at the same time in the '80s. Rusty dropped out when his father died (his "Doctor" title coming via an [[PhonyDegree honorary doctorate]] from a [[WorthlessForeignDegree Tijuana college]]), Brock was kicked out when he accidentally killed another player on the football team, Ünderbheit presumably left after the incident that blew off his jaw, and it's left ambigous as to whether Pete or Monarch graduated. Richard Impossible and Phantom Limb were revealed to be professors there, with Billy later attending to spy on Limb for the O.S.I. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch is also implied to have attended, meeting Phantom Limb and starting a relationship while he was still a professor. A deleted scene implies that Sally Impossible also attended, starting a relationship with Richard (her future husband) that got him fired. (A scene that did make it in shows his name being removed from Limb's office door.) During the series proper, Rusty tries to get Dean enrolled, and later hires a bunch of interns from the university to work on a major project. Given that the Venture Compound is implied several times in the series to be somewhere in the southwest, it is a strong possibility that the university is indeed in California, as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has "State University", where Rusty, Brock, Pete White, the Monarch, and even Baron Ünderbheit (as an exchange student) [[EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether all attended at the same time time]] in the '80s. Rusty dropped out when his father died (his "Doctor" title coming via an [[PhonyDegree honorary doctorate]] from a [[WorthlessForeignDegree Tijuana college]]), Brock was kicked out when he accidentally killed another player on the football team, Ünderbheit presumably left after the incident that blew off his jaw, and it's left ambigous as to whether Pete or Monarch graduated. Richard Impossible and Phantom Limb were revealed to be professors there, with Billy later attending to spy on Limb for the O.S.I. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch is also implied to have attended, meeting Phantom Limb and starting a relationship while he was still a professor. A deleted scene implies that Sally Impossible also attended, starting a relationship with Richard (her future husband) that got him fired. (A scene that did make it in shows his name being removed from Limb's office door.) During the series proper, Rusty tries to get Dean enrolled, and later hires a bunch of interns from the university to work on a major project. Given that the Venture Compound is implied several times in the series to be somewhere in the southwest, it is a strong possibility that the university is indeed in California, as well.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has "State University", where Rusty, Brock, Pete White, the Monarch, and even Baron Ünderbheit (as an exchange student) all attended at the same time in the '80s. Rusty dropped out when his father died (his "Doctor" title coming via an [[PhonyDegree honorary doctorate]] from a [[WorthlessForeignDegree Tijuana college]]), Brock was kicked out when he accidentally killed another player on the football team, Ünderbheit presumably left after the incident that blew off his jaw, and it's left ambigous as to whether Pete or Monarch graduated. Richard Impossible and Phantom Limb were revealed to be professors there, with Billy later attending to spy on Limb for the O.S.I. Dr. Mrs. the Monarch is also implied to have attended, meeting Phantom Limb and starting a relationship while he was still a professor. A deleted scene implies that Sally Impossible also attended, starting a relationship with Richard (her future husband) that got him fired. (A scene that did make it in shows his name being removed from Limb's office door.) During the series proper, Rusty tries to get Dean enrolled, and later hires a bunch of interns from the university to work on a major project. Given that the Venture Compound is implied several times in the series to be somewhere in the southwest, it is a strong possibility that the university is indeed in California, as well.
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* the ''{{Franchise/LawAndOrder}}'' series set in New York (that is, all of the American series except ''Law & Order: Los Angeles'') often feature the fictional Hudson University as the city's generic school. It mostly blends elements of Columbia University and New York University, with a bunch of other [=NYC=] schools thrown in, as filming for the fictional campus has been done on multiple school campuses around the city. (It even has been shown to have a small laboratory-sized nuclear reactor on campus, which is TruthInTelevision – Manhattan College actually did have one in the basement of its engineering school from 1964 to 1997.) In addition to having pretty much any college-related plot take place at the school (which makes it a pretty dang dangerous school), multiple family members of the various lead characters have attended over the decades of the series. You would think the detectives would warn them that it's so dangerous.
**Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, other series set in New York have also used it as it's a plausibly generic name for a school in New York City (which sits on the Hudson River).
**Though the ''L&O'' franchise is the best known use of the name, other series set in New York have also used it as it's a plausibly generic name for a school in New York City (which sits on the Hudson River).
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* Averted by ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'''s series finale "Is It College Yet?" in which Daria, Jane and most of the rest of their classmates[[note]](except for Kevin, [[HeldBackInSchool who has to repeat his senior year)]][[/note]] end up going to different colleges--although the colleges that Daria and Jane are ultimately accepted into both happen to be located within the same city.
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* Averted by ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'''s series finale "Is It College Yet?" in which Daria, Jane and most of the rest of their classmates[[note]](except for Kevin, [[HeldBackInSchool who has to repeat his senior year)]][[/note]] year]])[[/note]] end up going to different colleges--although the colleges that colleges. However, Daria and Jane Jane's respective schools are ultimately both in Boston, meaning that they can still see each other regularly. It's also noted that [[DumbBlonde Brittany]] and her cheerleader friends all got into the same school, which notably has one of the top cheerleading squads in the country and was the ''only'' college that accepted into both happen to be located within the same city.any of them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''[='s=] Season 5 premiere "Schooled!" has Lori move into Fairway University after her high school graduation. Although its state isn't explicitly mentioned, Fairway University is stated to be between Royal Woods (by three driving hours away) and Great Lakes City (by a few miles away), the show's versions of Royal Oak (a real-life city in Michigan) and Chicago (Illinois), respectively.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''[='s=] Season 5 premiere "Schooled!" has Lori move into Fairway University (which was first seen in the Season 4 episode "Don't You Fore-Get About Me") after her high school graduation. Although its state isn't explicitly mentioned, Fairway University is stated to be between Royal Woods (by three driving hours away) and Great Lakes City (by a few miles away), the show's versions of Royal Oak (a real-life city in Michigan) and Chicago (Illinois), respectively.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''[='s=] Season 5 premiere "Schooled!" has Lori move into Fairway University after her high school graduation. Although its state isn't explicitly mentioned, Fairway University is stated to be between Royal Woods (by three driving hours away) and Great Lakes City (by a few miles away), the show's versions of Royal Oak (a city in Michigan) and Chicago (Illinois), respectively.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''[='s=] Season 5 premiere "Schooled!" has Lori move into Fairway University after her high school graduation. Although its state isn't explicitly mentioned, Fairway University is stated to be between Royal Woods (by three driving hours away) and Great Lakes City (by a few miles away), the show's versions of Royal Oak (a real-life city in Michigan) and Chicago (Illinois), respectively.
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* Surprisingly averted by, of all things, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', which sends [[spoiler:Ryan and Kelsi to Juilliard, Taylor to Yale, Chad and Sharpay to the University of Alberquerque, Gabriella to Stanford, and Troy to UC Berkeley]]. Not to say that their choice of schools for the characters isn't problematic in [[IvyLeagueForEveryone a different way]].
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* Surprisingly averted by, of all things, ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', which sends [[spoiler:Ryan whose ending sees Ryan and Kelsi being sent to Juilliard, Taylor to Yale, Chad and Sharpay to the University of Alberquerque, Gabriella to Stanford, and Troy to UC Berkeley]]. Berkeley. Not to say that their the choice of schools colleges for the characters isn't problematic in [[IvyLeagueForEveryone a different way]].
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* ''VisualNovel/ShaleHillSecrets'': Shale Hill is a fairly prestigious fictional university that most members of the main cast attend classes at, with several of the characters also working there. For bonus points, the protagonist, Emily, Leah, Sam, and Valerie all attended the same high-school and were friends -- or at least acquaintances -- with one another.
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* ''VisualNovel/ShaleHillSecrets'': Shale Hill is a fairly prestigious fictional university that most members of the main cast attend classes at, with several of the characters also working there. For bonus points, the protagonist, Emily, Leah, Sam, and Valerie all attended the same high-school and were friends -- or at least acquaintances -- with one another.
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Not to be confused with California's two actual public university systems, the University of California and California State University, nor with the California University [[NonindicativeName in the state of Pennsylvania]].[[note]]It's in the UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}-area borough of California, which was founded in 1849, the year of the California Gold Rush.[[/note]]
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' mentions Chelsea University quite a few times. Mac's stepson, Reed, is a student there beginning in Season 3.
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Not to be confused with California's two actual public university systems, the University of California and the California State University. It should also not be confused with the real institution actually named California University - which is located, ''naturally'', [[NonindicativeName in the state of Pennsylvania]].[[note]](It's in the UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}}-area borough of California, which was founded in 1849, the year of the California Gold Rush)[[/note]]
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* Averted on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. The fact that the kids would be graduating and going to different colleges all over the country--many of which would never see each other again--is what made the season three finale a major tearjerker.
Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
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* Averted on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. The fact that the kids would be graduating and going to different colleges all over the country--many of which would never see each other again--is what made the season three finale a major tearjerker.
tearjerker. Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': This is the TropeNamer; in
''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'', Zack, Slater, and Screech wound up together at California University, as did Kelly starting in the second episode. This was despite the fact that they explicitly say near the end of the high school series that Slater was going to the University of Iowa, Screech was going to Caltech, and Zack was going to ''Yale''. Screech and Slater would most assuredly had scholarships (academic and wrestling/football/basketball/track, respectively. If Zack didn't, his family certainly could have afforded it.
''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'', Zack, Slater, and Screech wound up together at California University, as did Kelly starting in the second episode. This was despite the fact that they explicitly say near the end of the high school series that Slater was going to the University of Iowa, Screech was going to Caltech, and Zack was going to ''Yale''. Screech and Slater would most assuredly had scholarships (academic and wrestling/football/basketball/track, respectively. If Zack didn't, his family certainly could have afforded it.
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in ''Series/SavedByTheBellTheCollegeYears'', Zack, Slater, and Screech wound up together at California University, as did Kelly starting in the second episode. This was despite the fact that they explicitly say near the end of the high school series that Slater was going to the University of Iowa, Screech was going to Caltech, and Zack was going to ''Yale''. Screech and Slater would most assuredly had scholarships (academic and wrestling/football/basketball/track, respectively. If Zack didn't, his family certainly could have afforded it.
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* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' both averts this and plays it straight. First done with Ellie and Marco attending the University of Toronto (a real university). Paige initially attends Banting, but drops out of school and moves in with her friends. Emma, Manny, and Liberty all attend Smithdale (which makes little sense in Liberty's case, as she had previously announced that she was going to attend Banting ''herself''). Most characters, however, disappear after graduation, with the exception of a few cameo appearances.
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* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' both averts this and plays it straight. First done with Ellie and Marco attending the University of Toronto (a real university). university), fictionalized as "Toronto University." Paige initially attends Banting, Banting (which seems to be based on Queens University in Kingston, Ontario), but drops out of school and moves in with her friends. Emma, Manny, and Liberty all attend Smithdale (which makes little sense in Liberty's case, as she had previously announced that she was going to attend Banting ''herself''). Most characters, however, disappear after graduation, with the exception of a few cameo appearances.
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* ''Film/Scream2'' sends both of the first film's surviving teenage characters, Sidney and Randy, to the fictional Windsor College in Ohio, over two thousand miles away from their home in California. While Sidney wanted to put as much distance between herself and her hometown as possible, no such explanation is given for why Randy chose to go to the same school that she did.
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* Averted on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. The fact that the kids would be graduating and going to different colleges all over the country--many of which would never see each other again--is what made the season three finale a major {{tearjerker}}.
** Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
** Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
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* Averted on ''Series/{{Glee}}''. The fact that the kids would be graduating and going to different colleges all over the country--many of which would never see each other again--is what made the season three finale a major {{tearjerker}}.
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Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
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Except in the case of Rachel and Kurt, whose spots at NYADA and continued spotlight plays this trope for the most part straight.
