College recruiters from Stansbury and Harvard compete for Bayside students. Harvard is a real institution. Stansbury is not. The Stansbury recruiter notes that the school is close to the students' home, presumably in California. Stansbury represents Jessie Spanos's dream school. In Jessie's Song (1990), that distinction held by Stanford, a real school in Palo Alto, California.
The Max waiter/unemployed actor James returns in Saved by the Bell: The New Class. Just like this series, James also only appeared in 2 episodes of The New Class.