There ought to be a TV show..."Say YES to the College".

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<p>Ok, I have been known to get pulled into those shows like "Say YES to the Dress", "My First Home", "House Hunters"....and I keep thinking I wish there was a show like this about people hunting for a college!</p>

<p>The show would follow a student, armed with their list of stats and preferences, through campus visits, learning about financial aid and the app process and then their eventual selection of colleges and, hopefully acceptances.</p>

<p>There are other shows that are months or a year in the making...like "Extreme Weight Loss"...I think it could be done...and I know I'd be watching!</p>

<p>Can we get someone on this project?</p>

<p>Now...what SHOULD it be called...</p>

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<p>The show could be fun IF they didn’t get hung up on whether the dorms had granite countertops or not…</p>

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<p>“You see, when you’re considering dorms the biggest thing is location, location, location.”</p>

<p>Seriously though, I would watch that show. It’d be cool for students to be able to see college campuses that they couldn’t get out to tour.</p>

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<p>This would probably be fantastically hilarious!</p>

<p>I wonder what the college-equivalent of granite countertops is that they would get hung up on. Probably the dining halls, or the weather or landscaping. And I’m sure there would be some really overbearing parents who want their kids to go to a school that’s not a good fit because of prestige, or those roles could be swapped. Then they would reveal the price (which would always be on the upper end or above what they said was their budget), and they would fight over that with some cheesy dramatic music in the background.</p>

<p>And then after a few years of the show being on, it will be revealed that the students in the show had actually already selected their college before filming, like House Hunters. It would explain why the one kid’s primary complaint about the dream school he ended up going to was that the burgers in the dining hall were overcooked. But no one will care about this revelation, because it’s way too much fun to watch helicopter parents argue with their over-achieving teenage children.</p>

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<p>No fun watching kids getting their dreams shattered, finding out their parents have no money to send them to their dream school and their stats too low for FA.</p>

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<p>I don’t know how it work. I like the idea though. What happens when the kid falls in love with Stanford and gets rejected?</p>

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<p>Tears for days? That would be less fun to watch…</p>

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<p>Aw you guys are so pessimistic! ;-)<br>
But these types of shows usually start out following several people and then the focus moves to a couple people…like documentaries about competitions. So you you do see when things don’t work out, but the focus is on the ones who are happy in the end.<br>
Hopefully, even many of the ones who don’t get what they originally wanted end up happy anyway. </p>

<p>Or…the show could just follow the search and application process and then the acceptances could just be a note at the end.</p>

<p>and…Maybe a show like that could help keep more kids from falling into that same trap…It would be educational. :-)</p>

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<p>I would totally watch it. I liked the ivy dreams mini documentary</p>

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<p>I’d totally watch it, but it’d have to include a wide variety of colleges, not just football powerhouses and the ivies/stanford/CalTech/MIT (which you know would be the first 2-3 shows would be about to draw viewers in).
The kids would have to include at least 3 or 4 college visits.
And they couldn’t all be academic superstars.
What do kids like about Quinnipiac, or Susquehanna? About Macalester or Agnes Scott? About Kenyon, Hendrix? Wheaton, Hope? Harvey Mudd, Olin?
We know they’d get hung up on campus landscaping, suite-style dorms vs. communal bathrooms* and having made-to-order omelets for breakfast but it’d still be fun :slight_smile: and hopefully depth of majors, internships, size of first year classes, % of adjuncts, discussion vs. lecture, etc, etc, would all be brought up.</p>

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<li>someone might point out that communal bathrooms are cleaned by the college staff every day and are thus decently clean vs. suite bathrooms, which are cleaned once a week at best by college students…</li>
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<p>Thinking about it, I’m kind of surprised no such show exists. With so many cable channels, you think one of them would have latched onto something like this.</p>

<p>Alternatively, HGTV could do a dorm room makeover show.</p>

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<p>Or with a twist you could follow the kids college app as it goes to different colleges and different ad coms. One admission guy would put it in a fat file of acceptances with a smile and another would put it in the nearby shredder with snarky “why did they bother?” comments…</p>

<p>It could be a game show called “Chance Me!”</p>

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<p>HGTV did a dorm room makeover show as part of another series. Small space design and it was pretty great.</p>

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<p>Dorm room make over would be the perfect tie-in/spin off.</p>

<p>I agree with Nanotechnology, I’m surprised no such show exists. Perhaps because no college would give permission?</p>

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<p>Can we draw a CCer in high school, or a parent of a high schooler on CC, at random for such a show?</p>