caught the TV people

     I watch "Cold Case" when I notice that it's on, because it's filmed ( or partly filmed ) in my hometown of Philadelphia. I like to see if I can recognize streets and neighborhoods, and if I can tell what they used from reality, and what they felt a need to invent or re-invent. Last night they had a young man who supposedly couldn't afford to go to Cornell because his father had gambled away all their money.  Cornell isn't in Philadelphia, but this never happened. Cornell is an Ivy League school. What makes the Ivy League a "league" is that if you are accepted to one of the schools in the league, you can consider yourself accepted to any of them. One of the things that makes students try so hard to be accepted to Ivy League schools is a guarantee of tuition. If you are accepted to an Ivy League school, they will help you find funding of one kind or another for your education--so it's not possible that the TV character couldn't afford the tuition at Cornell. We also have to wonder why the character didn't apply to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia's Ivy League school, if he wanted to study medicine at a prestigious university. Not so believable.