The fact that Elle's only reasoning for applying to certain schools has to do with Lee (and her mother, true) and Noah makes me incredibly sad. You spend four years in high school and the only reason you apply anywhere else aside from your dream school is that your boyfriend asks you too? Whatever happened to safety schools?! What was that guidance counselor actually doing?
Of course, Elle gets accepted to both Berkeley and Harvard, so now her decision hinges on . . . her feelings for Lee and Noah?!?!? First of all, she should be going to Berkeley since that's the school she's been wanting to go to for years and it has sentimental value because it's her mother's alma mater. Why isn't her father laying down the law here? You don't go to college because of a boy! No one is paying Harvard tuition for you to knock boots with the boyfriend you thought was cheating on you for half of your senior year of high school!
If Elle does go to Harvard, it would be hard to believe she's going there to be with Noah, rather than to watch him, since we know she doesn't trust him away from her eyesight. I can only hope Elle got into another ridiculous reach school so she can be away from the Flynn boys and figure out who she is, alone.