When you’re a teen, learning your college admission status is an emotional roller coaster of epic proportions. With one tear of an envelope or click of a mouse you find out if years of homework, late-night study sessions, writing and rewriting papers, taking tests, and running yourself ragged with extra curriculars paid off. Will you get into your dream school? Or will you be disappointed, left questioning your worth in a spiral of self-doubt?
Operation Varsity Blues, Netflix’s documentary about the scandalous 2019 college-admissions scam led by mastermind Rick Singer, invites you to think about that formative college application period and never lets you lose sight of it. From the opening scenes of high schoolers ecstatically celebrating acceptance letters to subsequent tear-filled reactions to rejections, the documentary repeatedly urges you to consider students’ perspectives. Imagine how teens who worked tirelessly to get into college on their own merits felt upon learning that select students were illegally admitted to the nation’s most highly regarded universities — simply because their wealthy parents cheated the educational system. Read more…
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