Most of these colleges don’t even exist, you guys!!
Pitch Perfect
Expectation: You will become the leader of a well-established club/group in your freshman year and immediately lead them to a national championship.
Reality: You will probably audition multiple times before finally getting in during your junior year.
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Gilmore Girls
Expectations: You can take a semester off from YALE and still graduate on time.
Reality: You’ll be lucky if you graduate from a non-Ivy League school on time.
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Road Trip
Expectations: You can keep pets (including snakes) in your dorm.
Reality: You can’t even keep candles in your dorm.
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Legally Blonde
Expectations: It’s super easy to get into Harvard and even your most obscure interests will help you win court cases.
Reality: Unfortunately, the most realistic thing might be Professor Callahan’s behavior.
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Good Will Hunting
Expectations: Even the janitors have mentors.
Reality: There are few teachers like Sean Maguire out there, and they probably won’t remember your name, let alone mentor you.
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The Social Network
Expectations: Even anti-social nerds can succeed!
Reality: They’re just privileged white men.
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Saved by the Bell: The College Years
Expectations: You will move to college with all of your high school friends and be BFFs forever and ever.
Reality: You will be forced to make new friends and attempt to introduce them to your high school friends over spring break and they will not get along.
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Revenge of the Nerds
Expectations: If you’re good at sex, a girl will forgive anything.
Reality: Tricking a girl into having sex with you is NEVER okay.
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Drumline
Expectations: If you quit the prestigious group that gave you a full ride to college, they will welcome you back with open arms, and let you play in their big show/competition last minute.
Reality: Chances are, you won’t a get a full ride for your talents, but if you do, you will be replaced the second you quit.
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Dead Man on Campus
Expectations: You will automatically get straight A’s if your roommate commits suicide.
Reality: That is not a real thing, guys. Don’t murder your roommate and stage it as a suicide.
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Community
Expectations: Your freshman year friends will remain your forever friends and community college lasts four years.
Reality: Freshman friends are typically demoted to Facebook friends and community college definitely lasts two years.
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Animal House
Expectations: Fraternity houses are non-stop fun.
Reality: Fraternity houses are disgusting.
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Neighbors
Expectations: Parties have barrels filled with LITERAL TONS of weed.
Reality: Even a gram of weed is a coveted commodity.
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Flatliners
Expectations: There’s plenty of down time during med school, and people typically spend it doing wild experiments on each other.
Reality: The only wild thing that occurs in med school is the impressive amount you’re able to accomplish without sleeping.
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American Pie 2
Expectations: All of your high school friends will be exactly the same after freshman year, and you will most likely have a threesome experience before you’re legally allowed to drink.
Reality: Half of your friends don’t even come home for summer vacation and the other half are certainly not out there having threesomes.
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Felicity
Expectations: Following your crush to college is a super chill move that will definitely end well. Also, cutting your hair will have dire consequences.
Reality: Neither of those things are true.
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Whiplash
Expectations: If you really want to succeed, be prepared for your teacher to be a psychopath.
Reality: Most professors aren’t passionate about anything.
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Love Story
Expectations: Love means never having to say you’re sorry.
Reality: You’re going to do some stupid shit that you’ll most definitely want to apologize for.
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Liberal Arts
Expectations: Your alma mater will welcome you with open arms, no matter how old you get.
Reality: Your professors will forget you immediately.
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Old School
Expectations: It’s totally normal for old dudes to throw ragers on campus.
Reality: People over 30 who hang out with college kids are creepy AF.
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Undeclared
Expectations: Good, realistic shows about college will be welcomed by society with open arms.
Reality: They get cancelled.
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Are there any movies or shows that gave you the wrong impression of the college experience? Tell us in the comments!
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