Tufts University in popular culture

The following is a partial, incomplete list of references to Tufts University in popular culture.

[edit] Literature

Hannah, the heroine in Curtis Sittenfeld's second novel, The Man of My Dreams, goes to Tufts. Interestingly, the heroine in Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was rejected from Tufts.
Large portions of Tufts' alumnus and bestselling author Darin Strauss's forthcoming novel, More Than It Hurts You, take place at the university.
Scott Adler, recurring character in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series and eventual U.S. Secretary of State, graduated first in his class at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Ken Erdedy, character in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and a marijuana addict and resident of Ennet House, likely attended Tufts University, evidenced among other things by the memorabilia in his household (p.25, 360, 362).
Jenna Blake in the Body of Evidence mystery novels attends Somerset University, a fictional version of the Tufts campus.
Susan Silverman of Robert B. Parker's Spenser mystery series teaches at "Taft University", a thinly-veiled stand-in for Tufts, and Parker uses the Taft setting in several books.

Julie Merkel, a cutthroat prep school student in the film Cheats, a 2002 comedy starring Mary Tyler Moore, wants desperately to attend Tufts.
Some outdoor footage of the Tufts campus was shot in fall of 1967 for the 1969 movie Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom.
The indoor shots of the prom scene in the movie The Next Karate Kid were filmed in the Cousen's Gymnasium at Tufts.

Pete and Berg, the lead characters in the sitcom Two Guys and a Girl met as undergraduates at Tufts.
The gate to the President's Lawn was featured in the opening credits of the sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.
Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the sitcom Seinfeld, mentions that she attended Tufts, and that it was her "safety school".
In Daria, the title character goes off to attend fictional Raft College around Boston. Many Daria fans think that Raft may be a thinly veiled fictional version of Tufts.
Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, title character from Crossing Jordan, played by Jill Hennessy, graduated from Tufts' medical school.
Amy Abbott on the WB drama Everwood was rejected from Tufts in an episode of the show.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi, psychiatrist to Tony Soprano on The Sopranos graduated from Tufts Medical School.
Kenny, a Stuckeybowl employee on the TV show Ed, graduated from Tufts (and, when asked about it by Ed, replied, "It's in Massachusetts").
Toyota ran an ad in the late 1970s/early 1980s that portrayed a student setting off for college in his new Toyota and driving cross-country from his home in Southern California. The ad finished with his triumphant arrival in front of Eaton Hall. For years, this commercial was shown before all campus movies.