I didn't mean Candy was considering college, just that he was giving her marriage as a teenager, which to me means she's pretty much set now at her age. I'm comparing her to what I would want, not what she wants--not to say that she must want what I want, just explaining why I'm not particularly satisfied by this love story.
And I don't buy that she tumbled for him even though he wasn't the movie star in her mind. That after being obsessed with him for weeks already she adjusted her focus more to the real guy the same night she met him does not read to me like the lesson they're obviously presenting him as. She was still primed to be in love with him and then continued to be in love with him. He doesn't know about the movie star in her mind, he just sees how she treats him.