MONDAY, DECEMBER 22

"GOSSIP GIRL" � (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET)

"New Haven Can Wait" (TV-PG, DL) (HDTV)

BLAIR, SERENA, DAN, NATE & CHUCK PAY A VISIT TO YALE � After Blair (Leighton Meester) and Serena (Blake Lively) get into a catfight, Serena decides to get even with Blair, who has always dreamed of attending Yale, by ditching her plans to visit Brown, and instead accepting the Dean of Yale's personal invitation to visit the school. After discovering that none of his recommendation letters for Yale were ever submitted, Dan (Penn Badgley) frantically tries to figure out a way to salvage his chances of getting into the school. While on the Yale campus, Chuck (Ed Westwick) is kidnapped by a group of Skull and Bones members and Nate (Chace Crawford) hooks up with a co-ed. Taylor Momsen, Jessica Szohr, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Norman Buckley directed the episode written by Alexandra McNally & Joshua Safran (#206).