The man fixing Rory's radiator tells her that they have had presidents graduate from Yale.
For the record, the two Presidents Bush and President Taft earned their undergraduate degrees at Yale. President Clinton and President Ford earned their undergraduate degrees at Georgetown and the University of Michigan, respectively, but went on to earn JD degrees from Yale Law School.
Golden Globe nominee Rami Malek plays one of the students from Lane's college that participates in her study group. Except he doesn't appear in this episode, he appears in the following one.