Why I'm happy Teen Wolf ended before the Main Characters went to College

I still love watching Teen Wolf but I am happy the series ended before Scott McCall, Lydia Martin and Stiles Stilinski attended college. Scott was accepted to UC Davis (University of California, Davis) with plans to become a veterinarian, while Lydia was accepted to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) most likely to study math and science and Stiles was accepted to George Washington University with a goal of studying law enforcement. As for Malia Tate, I found it very realistic that the show didn't have her getting accepted or planning to go to college, that would not have been the right choice for her character especially since she was more interested in traveling.

L to R: Malia Tate, Lydia Martin, Stiles Stilinski and Scott McCall               (Teen Wolf season 6 episode 1 "Memory Lost")

The reason why I'm happy the show ended before the main characters were shown attending college is that most shows don't know what to do with characters once they're in college with some shows dropping the story line entirely. For instance, that's exactly what happened on Smallville because in the fifth season, Clark Kent was attending CKU (Central Kansas A&M) while Lana Lang and Chloe Sullivan were going to Met U (Metropolis University). However, it wasn't long before the show moved on from that by having Clark drop out (despite his mother wanting him to go back to college) following the death of his father. Lana eventually dropped out while Chloe was working full-time at the Daily Planet and it was mentioned that she was only taking night classes.

Odds are Teen Wolf's writers probably would not have known what to do with Scott, Lydia and Stiles once they were in college. I still think their college experience would have eventually ended up as something similar to what happened on Smallville with the three returning to Beacon Hills. I'm still surprised that the show didn't even give the characters a high school graduation scene. So, it's hard to imagine the show would have made the effort (nor had the budget to create various sets) to follow the three characters outside of Beacon Hills attending separate universities for several seasons. Not to mention also trying to focus on what's happening in Beacon Hills with Malia and the younger characters (Liam Dunbar, Mason Hewitt and Corey Bryant) trying to protect the town. I'm sure with the stories occasionally intersecting a few times throughout the seasons. I will admit the show did a fairly good job of showing Stiles at his internship with the FBI for the sixth season 11th episode "Said the Spider to the Fly" but that was only a short scene in the last few minutes of the episode. I doubt they would have been able to do that on a large scale with three characters for an entire season.

There are only a few shows I believe did a great job with showing characters transitioning from high school to college such as Gilmore Girls with Rory Gilmore and Paris Gellar attending Yale University, Tia Landry and Tamara Campbell attending the University of Michigan on Sister, Sister and Blair Warner and Joanna "Jo" Polniaczek attending Langley College in The Facts of Life.

I think Teen Wolf ending without having to deal with showing these characters away at college was one of the best things. Viewers were spared from writers not knowing what to do with the characters and running out of ideas, only to drop the stories all together. So in a way, we lucked out and didn't have to experience the disappointment of seeing these characters suffer from bad writing. Because so far only a few shows have manage to accomplish the rare act of successfully telling stories of high school characters moving on to college.