Stanford University in popular culture

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Stanford University has been often mentioned in fictional works of popular culture.

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The movie Orange County is about a student who applies at enroll at Stanford but is rejected after his student counselor actually sends the wrong transcript to Stanford.
In the 1942 movie The Spirit of Stanford, Stanford's quarterback Frank Albert actually played himself.
The 1944 film Double Indemnity is about a wife who conspires with her lover to kill her husband in Palo Alto on his way to a Stanford reunion.
Hillary Whitney in Beaches studies at Stanford.
Amy in The Social Network is a Stanford student.

Sam Winchester in Supernatural begins the series as an undergraduate in Stanford
Rachel Zane in "Suits (TV Series)" gets accepted into Stanford to study Law

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Nina Rosario, a main character in In the Heights, is a scholarship recipient at Stanford but announces in Act I that she has dropped out. By the end of the last act, she has decided to accept her parents' financial help and reenroll.

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