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Admission (2013)

***** -- Admitted with a full scholarship

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****1/2 -- Admitted with a partial scholarship

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**** -- Admitted

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***1/2 -- Admitted, but not to your major

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*** -- Waitlisted

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**1/2 -- Waitlisted, but only because your parent is a physics professor

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** -- Waitlisted, but only because your parent knows a physics professor

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*1/2 -- Denied

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* -- How the hell did you get an "F-" in Algebra 2?

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seawolf17 Mar 25 2013 12:16 PM

Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Tina Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the free-wheeling John Pressman (Paul Rudd). Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago. Soon, Portia finds herself bending the rules for Jeremiah, putting at risk the life she thought she always wanted -- but in the process finding her way to a surprising and exhilarating life and romance she never dreamed of having. So Tina Fey plays a slightly more adorkable version of myself, except for a snootier school (Princeton). Also I have not, as far as I know, made out with any high school counselors.

Mets – Willets Point Mar 25 2013 12:35 PM Re: Admission (2013)

This joins How I Got into College (1989) in the Netflix category Quirky Romantic Comedies About the College Admission Process.

Edgy MD Mar 25 2013 05:55 PM Re: Admission (2013)

Risky Business, too.

Frayed Knot Mar 25 2013 07:08 PM Re: Admission (2013)

And last year's Liberal Arts

Ceetar Mar 25 2013 07:14 PM Re: Admission (2013)

Orange County?

Edgy MD Mar 25 2013 07:35 PM Re: Admission (2013)

Good one. There was sorta a romantic angle in that, wasn't there?

Swan Swan H Mar 25 2013 07:52 PM Re: Admission (2013)

Horsefeathers had romance and college admissions, but not at the same time.

Ceetar Mar 25 2013 10:06 PM Re: Admission (2013)

Edgy MD wrote: Good one. There was sorta a romantic angle in that, wasn't there? in Orange County? I think so. I think they burned down an admissions building too.

Ceetar Mar 25 2013 10:06 PM Re: Admission (2013)

My brother's applying to college soon. I should make him watch all of these first.

Vic Sage Mar 26 2013 08:53 AM Re: Admission (2013)

college admission/application movies: ACCEPTED HISTORY BOYS PERFECT SCORE GETTING IN HOW I GOT INTO COLLEGE RISKY BUSINESS LEGALLY BLONDE HOW HIGH RUDY SPANGLISH REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES ORANGE COUNTY ANYWHERE BUT HERE EDUCATING RITA

Edgy MD Mar 26 2013 09:08 AM Re: Admission (2013)

I don't think admission is really an overarching theme in some of those, but good job.

seawolf17 Mar 26 2013 09:33 AM Re: Admission (2013)

Martin Lawrence's "College Road Trip," too.

metirish Mar 26 2013 11:20 AM Re: Admission (2013)

Does Paul Rudd play Paul Rudd?

Frayed Knot Mar 26 2013 11:39 AM Re: Admission (2013)

metirish wrote: Does Paul Rudd play Paul Rudd? As noted in the 'THIS IS 40' thread, is he even capable of NOT playing Paul Rudd?

metirish Mar 26 2013 11:48 AM Re: Admission (2013)

True...I saw Wanderlust and the answer would be no.(I do enjoy him though)