<p>All right, does this ever get on your nerves? 'Cause it sure does get on mine.</p>
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<li>"A Cinderella Story" Hillary Duff is SO SURE that she got into Princeton. Why wouldn't she? Well, since she didn't make that one school, I guess she's just doomed to working in the family diner. (And family-owned car washes are surprisingly common among Princeton alumni.)</li>
<li>"New York Minute" If only the Olsen girl can present this amazing speech at Columbia University, she'll have a full ride to Oxford</li>
<li>"Parenthood" Daughter got a great SAT score--1291. I thought it went in ten-point increments?</li>
<li>"Full House" How did she not make it into Stanford? She was a shoo-in!</li>
<li>"Mean Girls" Sure, he's not doin' so well in AP Calc as a senior, but Northwestern is easy to get into</li>
<li>"Chances Are" Yale students are surprisingly dense</li>
<li>"Sister, Sister" (Show on the Disney channel) Identical twins both take the SAT (with a proctor who obviously isn't smart enough to know that you don't sit the kids along one table with six inches between each other). One gets a ~1040 and the other gets a ~1590. Confusion ensues as the GC, who is in charge of distributing everyone's scores (??), mixes up the big manilla envelopes containing their scores. (I don't care if you're a nature or nurture person--identical twins will not have that big of a discrepancy between scores.)</li>
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<p>I know there's more out there... anyone care to add to the list?</p>
<p>Well to be honest the whole college admissions process is rather boring. In Hollywood you need to entertain, and showing how it actually works would put people to sleep... With that said, from what I've seen Gilmore Girls actually does do a decent job of showing the process.</p>
<p>LOL good thread. Actually, in the hands of a good director, the average family will be decent material for a Hollywood film as it is, what with the white-knuckle ride in applying for top tier schools and twists and turns for having the adcom cruelly shouting "waitlisted!" at you and then getting sudden (midnight?!) calls for "congratulations... you're off the list now"... </p>
<p>(haha indeed, you can't beat the Gilmore Girls)</p>
<p>it wouldn't be hard to twist into a reality show.</p>
<p>"ten brilliant, hardworking students... and only ONE admission to Yale.
who gets in?
who else goes to Ivy League?
who gets stuck at Arizona State?"</p>
<p>or whatever.</p>
<p>of course it would be more amusing if the admissions officers were complete jerks as well. (everyone loves drama.)</p>
<p>It's quite sad that that could actually bring in enough viewers to warrant a show. I was going to say, "shhh! don't tell them (fox, etc.) or it may come true!!" but -
last year I saw a reality series that followed a couple of seniors. In one, the captain of a swim team he retook a 1540 (with tutoring) to get a 1580ish and got accepted to Harvard...</p>
<p>Um, Parenthood was made in 1989, before they recentered the SAT. So yes, 1291 is a possible (and good) score that would probably come out to a high 1300 or low 1400 today.</p>
<p>And it would be entirely possible for identical twins to have that much of a score difference depending on their testing conditions - nerves, their health, how much they slept the night before the test, etc.</p>
<p>ughh, those movies are all crap, what did you expect? Man, I laugh thinking about anout Hilary duff at H extension, what a dumbass and she seems proud of it. Apparently the adjectives she knows are "cool", and "really cool" as seen from her description of H: "It's really cool! I get to learn classes off the Internet, and it's really cool!"</p>
<p>"'Chances Are' Yale students are surprisingly dense"
We are.</p>
<p>"identical twins will not have that big of a discrepancy between scores"
You forget about trisomy-21.</p>
<p>"I doubt she has many "intelligent" fans."
A good friend of mine, at Yale, is a huge Hilary Duff fan. His birthday party's theme was "A Master's Tea with Ms. Hilary Duff."</p>
<p>In Gossip Girl... these two students... Nate and Serena get into Yale who pratically fail their classes. Blair who has legacy and top ranked is waitlisted...</p>
<p>I sort of like Hollywood college admissions... gives me a bit of hope :)</p>
<p>How about Legally Blonde, where they basically implied that once Elle pulled her SAT scores up to a perfect 1600 the rest of the "Road to Harvard" was a breeze? LOL</p>