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* Serena's older brother, Eric van der Woodsen, attends Brown University in ''[[Gossip Girl]]''.
* In the novel ''In Her Shoes'' by Jennifer Weiner, protagonist Rose Feller is a Princeton graduate. Her younger sister Maggie camps out in a Princeton library. Jennifer Weiner is an alumna of Princeton's Class of 1991.
* Subverted by Edwin O'Connor's novel ''[[The Last Hurrah]]'', in which the Harvard-educated characters are clearly singled out as ''exceptions'' to the general rule. Given that the story is set among Irish-Americans in the 1950s, this is [[Truth in Television]]- until at least the early '70s, most Irish-American Catholics in the Northeast were expected to go to schools like Boston College or Holy Cross; those few who went to Harvard or Yale instead were ambitious, upwardly-mobile types who wanted to "make it" as "Americans". [[John F. Kennedy|One famous example is typical]].
* In the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series, Cameron "Buck" Williams graduated from Princeton. Chloe was attending Stanford.
* In the science-fiction novel ''Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen'' by [[H. Beam Piper]], Calvin Morrison was a theology student at Princeton before dropping out to join the U.S. Army and fight in the Korean War.
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