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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Applying to college is more complicated and challenging than it used to be. Yet some aspects of the process have not changed. In this video, Hanna Stotland provides an overview of what colleges and universities now look for and how applicants can maximize their chances of getting accepted. Hanna's no-nonsense advice will help students and their families understand what persuades admissions officers to say yes rather than no to a prospective student....
3) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Getting accepted at the college of your choice is one thing. Succeeding in college is another. In this video, Admissions Consultant Hanna Stotland (a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School) provides advice about how to make the most of your college experience, both academically and socially, from the first day you set foot on campus.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Most college applicants submit boring, unimpressive personal essays. How to avoid common pitfalls and write an essay that will help earn a spot at the college of choice? In this video, Hanna Stotland offers tips and strategies for selecting a topic and writing a distinctive, powerful, and persuasive college essay.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Black colleges and universities are a haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries and have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. Examines the impact these institutions have had on American history, culture, and national identity.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Determined not to let the S.A.T. exam unfairly define their lives, six wildly different teens devise a way to get the perfect score. Kyle wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty is heartbroken when he is rejected from the school that his girlfriend attends. Good girl Anna is pressured by her parents to excel in academics and remain innocent. Desmond is a basketball player who believes the exam...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A family's guide to financing higher education. America's premier college admission counselors, father and son team Howard and Matthew Greene, help 'level the playing field' with solid strategies that aid in learning how to finance an educational future.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Kirby Dick, and Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer Amy Ziering comes a startling expose of sexual assault on US campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. Weaving together cinema verite footage and first person testimonies, the film follows the lives of several undergraduate assault survivors as they attempt...
12) Pitch perfect 2
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
The Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world. It's been three years since the Bellas brought their signature vocals, style and attitude to become the first all-female group to win a national title. But when they get banned after a scandal that threatens to derail their last year at Barden, the three-time defending champs worry that this time they've lost their harmony for good. The Bellas must fight for their right to win the World Championships...
13) Pitch perfect: 2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Barden Bellas are back to pitch slap the world. It's been three years since the Bellas brought their signature vocals, style and attitude to become the first all-female group to win a national title. But when they get banned after a scandal that threatens to derail their last year at Barden, the three-time defending champs worry that this time theyb2sve lost their harmony for good. The Bellas must fight for their right to win the World Championships...
14) Accepted
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Bartleby Gaines is a fast-talking slacker who gets rejected by every college he applies to. He decides to invent a phony college to get his parents off his back. Unfortunately (or not), the website his best friend creates is too effective and hundreds of other rejects apply and are accepted. Instead of revealing the hoax, Gaines decides to forge ahead and let the students create their own curriculum, little suspecting that their school is obstructing...
16) Fail state
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In an expansive documentary exposé, the filmmakers reveal the dark story behind the rise of predatory for-profit colleges and how a cabal of politicians and unscrupulous business tycoons sold out the dream of American higher education.
18) Tenure
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
During what may be his last chance to secure tenure, a college professor finds he must compete with a newly-hired, attractive female colleague.
19) The Skulls
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The Skulls: For Luke McNamara, an invitation to join the prestigious secret college organization, The Skulls, is a dream come true. But when a fellow pledge gets caught up in murder, Luke finds himself alone amidst the sinister and well-connected brotherhood, and now he must summon the strength to stand up against immeasurable odds.
The Skulls II: After joining The Skulls, Ryan Sommers is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or...
20) Buffaloed
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is obsessed with making enough cash to get out of Buffalo. When the acceptance letter to her dream school arrives, she must hustle to find a job that will pay for tuition. But after getting scammed by a debt collector she works for, Peg decides to cheat the system like it cheated her.
