Defriese University

Defriese University is an elite college mentioned in several Dessen novels. It is Auden's future college in Along For the Ride and the hometown university in What Happened to Goodbye.

It is considered to be academically superior to "the U" (a thinly disguised UNC-Chapel Hill), and is about a two-hour drive from Lakeview (Chapel Hill). This readers suspects it to be inspired by Duke University, the most prestigious private college in North Carolina.