How Fitzgerald Picked His Characters’ Ivy Alma Maters

“There’s a chapter in the life of nearly every major F. Scott Fitzgerald protagonist–after boarding school, before dissipation in New York–when he attends Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. … When Fitzgerald arrived at that crucial choose-an-alma-mater moment, did he just throw a dart at a crimson, orange, and blue board? Or did he have a more rigorous admissions process?”