Class of '96 Episode Rating Graph

Its everyone's first day on Campus, and everyone meeting their roommates, getting to know one another and getting settled in. The show revolves around seven people who become friends. Jessica, a rich Jewish girl shares a room with two other girls, Patty, the daughter of a famous actress and Robin, a knockout from Florida. On the other side you have the guys, David, a guy from New Jersey just trying to become a writer and his roommate Stroke, who is just wants to be an entrepreneur. Then you have Whitney a Rich prep who just wants to live up to dads expectations, but try to live his life as well, who to both him and his dads surprise ends up sharing his dads old room with Antonio, a black Kid from the inner city and unbeknown to Whitney is a star basketball player and the school top recruit. This is also the episode where David meets Jessica and they start dating.

As the gang prepares for mid terms, Whitney's drinking gets more and more out of hand. To make matters worse, Whitney's older do-gooder brother george shows up to check on him for his dad. Meanwhile Jesica and David have their own problems to deal with , when a classmate who prepares for the exam in a study session with them, puposely feeds them the test that he has some how gotten a stolen copy of. Patty and stroke study for their exams together and get a little closer.

Patty's favorite artist comes to the campus and falls for robin, which causesafalout between her and patty.

David falls in love with a visiting journalist and upsets Jessica.

A professor at Havenhearst is accused of being racist and a chauvenist. It pits david and Antonio against each other.

Whitney agrees with a bet to go out with Linda a waitress at the local hang out on campus. In the process of trying to win the bet, she wins his heart.

Its parents weekend and all the gangs parents are scheduled to arrive, except for Whitney and Antonio, who's parents couldn't make it. So the two guys decide to take a road trip which turns out to be more than they bargained for. Meanwhile, back on campus David's uncle Joe and Jessica's Corporate mogul dad meet for the first time. Patty's actress mother gives her more than she can handle and Robin's parents tell her that they can no longer afford to support her at Havenhurst Financially.

Jessica confronts her own ethnicity when an anti-Semitic Flyer is circulated on campus. Meanwhile, David ponders joining a fraternity which is exclusive.

Jessica and David ponder rekindling their romance; Patty gets fired up about a student film, but must contend with a temperamental director (LeBlanc); and Antonio burns over a gossip column.

Robin considers posing nude for a men's magazine to pay for her tuition, despite outrage from Patty and Jessica. Meanwhile Antonio finds that he's not the boyfriend Janet's father would like for his daughter.

When David's tutoring job pairs him with an Olympic bound female fencer (Bowen), Jessica hopes he doesn't need lessons in devotion.

Whitney and Antonio wage a war of practical jokes against Stroke and David, but it's no laughing matter when Robin starts dating a professor.

Stroke listens to his heart and starts a relationship with a woman who is hearing-impaired. Meanwhile Whitney and Antonio host a radio show.

The freshmen prepare to leave for their summer destinations, including Ohio for Patty if an audition with a famous actress goes well.