Charlie McCready is a worried father. His daughter Wendy will be attending college in the fall, and he feels the crowd she's hanging out with has no ambition, especially her boyfriend, Bart. He knows that Wendy's friends will all be attending the same college, so, he concocts a plan where Wendy will receive a scholarship to a different college. This college being the same one that his wife attended. All goes as planned and Wendy attends Huntington and sees less of her old crowd. Soon Charlie's plan backfires, Wendy discovers her father's scholarship plan and becomes rebellious. When she starts dating a hippie artist, Charlie realizes he has made a big mistake and must do something before Wendy goes too far.