Stanford University in popular culture

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

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.^[1][2][3]
• In the 1942 movie The Spirit of Stanford, Stanford's quarterback Frank Albert actually played himself.^[1][4]
• 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.^[1]
• Hillary Whitney in Beaches studies at Stanford.^[1]
• Amy in The Social Network is a Stanford student.^[5]
• Gabriella in High School Musical 3 is admitted to and decides to attend Stanford. ^{[6] [7]}

In television

• Sam Winchester in Supernatural begins the series as an undergraduate in Stanford^[8]
• Rachel Zane in "Suits (TV Series)" gets accepted into Stanford to study Law

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.

See also

List of Stanford University people#Fictional Stanford alumni

References