What’s real in this fic: Princeton University and other mentioned universities (of course) as well as various things mentioned about student life in Princeton (residential colleges, student employment, grant-based need, the informal meeting of fraternities and sororities on campus, Memorial Atrium’s layout, Princeton’s admission’s process, “The Secret Garden,” Woodrow Wilson’s quotes in The Birth of a Nation, Woodrow Wilson’s beliefs on racial segregation, disciplinary actions at Princeton

What’s been fudged, a bit: Secret society vandalism, the roles of the Dean, Joanna, and the police officers (as mentioned in an early draft of the Atlanta pilot), the comments on the applications

What’s made up: everything else that isn’t from Atlanta