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Try Harder!

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Duration
5 seconds
Views
15
Timestamp in Movie
00:58:36
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.
Obviously after you applied to college, - Try Harder! 00:10
Obviously after you applied to college,
[metals clanking] - Try Harder! 00:13
[metals clanking]
Okay, I think I'm gonna check Brown right now. - Try Harder! 00:06
Okay, I think I'm gonna check Brown right now.
Okay, so I got rejected from Princeton, okay. - Try Harder! 00:06
Okay, so I got rejected from Princeton, okay.
Yeah, I'm relieved now. - Try Harder! 00:04
Yeah, I'm relieved now.
I think I was expecting to get into at least one. - Try Harder! 00:05
I think I was expecting to get into at least one.
I did really, really want to go over to the East coast, - Try Harder! 00:07
I did really, really want to go over to the East coast,
[students cheering] - Try Harder! 00:08
[students cheering]
[students cheering] [students applauding] - Try Harder! 00:04
[students cheering] [students applauding]
- So many kids got into Berkeley, - Try Harder! 00:06
- So many kids got into Berkeley,
[gentle pensive music] - Try Harder! 00:05
[gentle pensive music]
- Three and a half years of killing myself here - Try Harder! 00:07
- Three and a half years of killing myself here
- I just feel like I tried so hard and I'm going to a school - Try Harder! 00:08
- I just feel like I tried so hard and I'm going to a s...
[students cheering] [students applauding] - Try Harder! 00:05
[students cheering] [students applauding]
[students cheering] [students applauding] - Try Harder! 00:09
[students cheering] [students applauding]
- You know that there are so many people out there - Try Harder! 00:04
- You know that there are so many people out there
Like oh they just flip a coin - Try Harder! 00:05
Like oh they just flip a coin
- This whole process creates people who are very cynical - Try Harder! 00:06
- This whole process creates people who are very cynical
- I can't go if it's full price because I can't it, - Try Harder! 00:06
- I can't go if it's full price because I can'...
But I hope if I do get in, - Try Harder! 00:08
But I hope if I do get in,