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High School movies are "coming of age" stories first and foremost, so yeah who'd want to focus on what's going on in English lit? There's a reason they so often focus on the *end* of High School, as well...it's a familiar benchmark for "adulthood" that transcends class, ethnic, and religious lines for a wide audience. (That is, you could make a story about a bar mitzvah or a quinceañera, etc., but those things would necessarily be tied to Jewish or Latina identity or what-have-you. HS works as an understood, secular "end of childhood" for a ton of reasons.) Definitely, though, college is not at all universal...in terms of what the setting and experience is like, or in terms of people going at all. You could definitely make a "coming of age" story about an undergrad, but you'd probably have to address those particularities. Is it Yale? Cal State? Community college, an engineering school, an arts conservatory? Is the main character wealthy, poor, are they near home or far away? Etc. I came of age amidst a huge glut of 90's teen dramedies styled after John Hughes. So, less Sixteen Candles and more Can't Hardly Wait, 10 Things I Hate About You, She's All That, American Pie. They were no less self-important or melodramatic than Hughes, but perhaps more cynical or jaded. Definitely more vulgar.
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