Introduction:Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of
high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they
had applied, create their own college. Though it is a light comedy the film’s
undertone throughout is highly critical of the U.S. college system (and the
college ranking system).Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is an underachieving high-school
student who uses his wits to get away with a lot of things. After being rejected
by all eight universities that he applies to, he hatches a plot, along with his
friends, to create his own fake college, the South Harmon Institute of
Technology (S.H.I.T.), to make his parents believe that he was accepted.Realizing
that they will need a campus to continue the ruse, the group locates a local run-down
mental hospital and proceed to acquire the lease and refurbish it. With
everything remodeled, the broken down hospital now looks like a college. Despite
being a fake college, they have a functional website which was inadvertently
accepting applicants, and much to the dismay of Bartleby, the campus is soon
brimming with new students.With the tuition money from his students, Bartleby
starts to pay for a cleaner facility, better dorm rooms, and a lot of
entertainment systems, such as a half pipe for skateboard and a big pool. The
students are told to do whatever they feel like doing and actually create their
own class subjects. All the class subjects are written on a white board by
students and classes such as “Do Nothing 101″ and “The Art of Sleeping” make the
cut. The entire student body just sits around and parties all day. One such
party was the “S.H.I.T. Party”, which was a huge party filled with dancing and
music, and during this party the actual band, The Ringers, performed their song
“Keepin’ Your Head Up”.