Accepted is a fy: 2006 comedy film centered around would-be college freshmen, who after being rejected from all the colleges and universities to which they had applied, proceed to "create" their own "college".
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Accepted is a fy: 2006 comedy film centered around would-be college freshmen, who after being rejected from all the colleges and universities to which they had applied, proceed to "create" their own "college".
Though presented as a light comedy, the film's dramatic undertone throughout is highly critical of the United States college system and the college ranking system.
Unlike most PG-13 films, Accepted has frequent use of the word shit - 62 times. The term is frequently referred to as the acronym of South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.).
Plot
Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is a persuasive high-school senior who, among other pranks, creates fake ID's. His gifts do not extend to grades, however, and he receives rejection letters from all of the universities and colleges he applied to. In an attempt to seek approval from his strict father (Mark Derwin), Bartleby creates a fake college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology. He is aided by his friend Sherman Schrader III (Jonah Hill), who has been accepted into the prestigious Harmon College, and fellow rejects Rory (Maria Thayer), Glen (Adam Herschman) and Hands (Columbus Short).
To make the "college" seem legitimate, Bartleby has his best-friend Sherman create a fully-functional website. Arriving at the conclusion that a campus is required to continue the ruse, Bartleby leases an abandoned psychiatric hospital adjacent to the campus of Harmon College and renovates it to look like a college campus. When his father insists on meeting the Dean, he hires Schrader's uncle, Ben Lewis (Lewis Black), to play that role.
The seemingly innocent ploy quickly spins out of control when the website, which automatically accepts any applicant, enrolls hundreds of other rejected students. Bartleby realizes that these people have nowhere else to go, and so lets them believe that the school is real. After a visit to Harmon disenchants him with traditional college life, he has the students make up their own classes and be their own teachers. A giant whiteboard is put up in which students write down what they want to learn.
Meanwhile, the Dean of the nearby Harmon College, Richard Van Horne (Anthony Heald), makes plans to construct the Van Horne Gateway, an adjacent park-like "verdant buffer zone to keep knowledge in--and ignorance out." He dispatches Hoyt Ambrose (Travis Van Winkle) to free up the nearby properties in preparation. When Bartleby refuses to relinquish the lease for the South Harmon Institute of Technology property, Hoyt sets to work trying to reveal the college as a fake. In a sub-plot, Bartleby also vies with Hoyt for the affections of Harmon College student — and Hoyt's girlfriend — Monica (Blake Lively).
Hoyt exposes South Harmon Institute of Technology as a fake school through Sherman, who is attempting to join his fraternity. After having Sherman beaten up, Hoyt forces him to hand over all the files he has created for the Institute. He then contacts all the students' parents to expose the school as a fake. The Institute is quickly shut down, but Sherman had taken the initiative to file for accreditation beforehand, giving Bartleby a chance to make his school legitimate.
