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Try Harder!

- Ladies and gentlemen,boys and girls, please welcome our 4.0 students!

[audience applauding] - Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, please welcome our 4.0 students!

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[audience applauding]
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- Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
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please welcome our 4.0 students!
Duration
7 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
01:04:51
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
ITVS,Center for Asian American Media (CAAM),California Humanites,XTR,Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Movie Summary

Seniors at one the best public high schools in the country face the pressure of applying to elite colleges.
[bell dinging] - Try Harder! 00:12
[bell dinging]
♪ Ring with the harmonies of Liberty ♪ - Try Harder! 00:06
♪ Ring with the harmonies of Liberty ♪
Four out of the eight Ivys waitlisted me. - Try Harder! 00:05
Four out of the eight Ivys waitlisted me.
Two of them I got into, - Try Harder! 00:07
Two of them I got into,
[audience cheering] - Try Harder! 00:13
[audience cheering]
And I think for a while, I tried to like, - Try Harder! 00:06
And I think for a while, I tried to like,
I think I've worked hard and I think I have the right grades - Try Harder! 00:09
I think I've worked hard and I think I have the right g...
But I don't like the fact that Asian students - Try Harder! 00:10
But I don't like the fact that Asian students
[gentle upbeat music] - Try Harder! 00:14
[gentle upbeat music]
And a lot of people at Lowell don't really know - Try Harder! 00:05
And a lot of people at Lowell don't really know
[audience cheering] - Try Harder! 00:12
[audience cheering]
But like I work hard [audience applauding] - Try Harder! 00:06
But like I work hard [audience applauding]
[applause] - Try Harder! 00:06
[applause]
[audience applauding] - Try Harder! 00:16
[audience applauding]
[audience applauding] - Try Harder! 00:06
[audience applauding]
[water splashing] - Try Harder! 00:06
[water splashing]
- Yeah, and it goes until midnight, - Try Harder! 00:06
- Yeah, and it goes until midnight,
- My mom got like a room at the hotel where the prom is at. - Try Harder! 00:04
- My mom got like a room at the hotel where the prom is at.
- Yeah, afterwards I can just go up to my room - Try Harder! 00:06
- Yeah, afterwards I can just go up to my room
- Yeah, aren't you gonna party with your friends? - Try Harder! 00:04
- Yeah, aren't you gonna party with your friends?