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Try Harder!

For Lowell students, Ifeel like there's definitely a pressure from your classmates

For Lowell students, I
feel like there's definitely a pressure from your classmates

Full Transcript

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- For Lowell students, I feel like there's definitely
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a pressure from your classmates.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:08:11
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.
- You want to go to the college, - Try Harder! 00:06
- You want to go to the college,
So, I'll work my tail off to be better than you. - Try Harder! 00:04
So, I'll work my tail off to be better than you.
- Sometimes at Lowell, it's hard to have a strong sense - Try Harder! 00:14
- Sometimes at Lowell, it's hard to have a strong sense
- You jump in the water, swim an hour that way then swim, - Try Harder! 00:05
- You jump in the water, swim an hour that way then swim,
- Going to Lowell, I have been introduced - Try Harder! 00:06
- Going to Lowell, I have been introduced
- Really smart [chuckling] - Try Harder! 00:04
- Really smart [chuckling]
- He's just really smart, really social - Try Harder! 00:08
- He's just really smart, really social
[orchestral music] - Try Harder! 00:12
[orchestral music]
- He's the perfect Lowell student, he takes like, - Try Harder! 00:05
- He's the perfect Lowell student, he takes like,
- A 4.7 GPA. - Try Harder! 00:04
- A 4.7 GPA.
- He once got a zero on his bio test on purpose - Try Harder! 00:09
- He once got a zero on his bio test on purpose
- Johnathan got 100, I'm not surprised, - Try Harder! 00:09
- Johnathan got 100, I'm not surprised,
- I think there was little doubt - Try Harder! 00:05
- I think there was little doubt
[orchestral music] - Try Harder! 00:06
[orchestral music]
I guess I came into Lowell thinking - Try Harder! 00:12
I guess I came into Lowell thinking
But when I would get like barely passing - Try Harder! 00:10
But when I would get like barely passing
[indistinct chattering] - Try Harder! 00:10
[indistinct chattering]
So for now I'd say getting it down to about 12-- - Try Harder! 00:06
So for now I'd say getting it down to about 12--
- So do like colleges like expect like a longer resume, - Try Harder! 00:06
- So do like colleges like expect like a longer resume,
- No, it's more about what you're doing - Try Harder! 00:04
- No, it's more about what you're doing