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Stanford University has been often mentioned in fictional works of popular culture.
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In film
- 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.
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In television
- 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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In theater
- 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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