If you're not familiar, on the eve of their graduation from college, Elle's (Reese Witherspoon) boyfriend , Warner (Matthew Davis), dumps her because it's time for him to get serious. 'If he's going to be a senator by the time he's thirty, he needs to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn.' (If you don't know that he's a jerk from this statement alone, then pay closer attention. The fact that he thinks he'd get elected at 30 and is equating himself with JFK... That says it all.)
After consoling herself with throwing a box of chocolates at 'Lucky' from General Hospital, she decides that she's going to prove to Warner that she's serious enough to be his girl friend. That means following him to Harvard Law School. Elle has a 4.0, lots of extracurriculars (she's the president of her Delta Nu chapter) and after diligently studying, got a 179 on her LSAT, which leads to her being admitted to Harvard.
The scene where she first encounters Warner is classic.
