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I removed for the following reason: this is a simplified and fictionalised version of "recommendation based entrance" (suisen nyugaku) system that is prevalent in Japan. Generally students are admitted based on their grades, extracurriculars, and other points of references depending on the method, and it bypasses traditional written exams, or features a special version of it. Special categories exist for special cases, such as IB holders, returnees, working adults, international applicants, etc.
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* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'', the admission requirements and tests for the country's most prestigious university, Tono U, are portrayed fairly realistically for a prestigious university even though the university itself is fictional. However, the trope comes in as part of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil; apparently, the StudentCouncilPresident can just hand out recommendations for students who have made noteworthy contributions to the school (student council vice-presidents and seventh witches among others) so they automatically can get admitted to a more average university. How this even works, especially when it comes to seventh witches (since the general populace doesn't know about witches), is never explained.
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* A character gets into a prestigious school with terrible grades and only one reference. Most good schools require multiple references and high grades and will reject any incomplete applications. The most prestigious schools reject students with poor grades without even looking at the rest of their applications.
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* [[IvyLeagueForEveryone A character gets into a prestigious school with terrible grades and only one reference.reference]]. Most good schools require multiple references and high grades and will reject any incomplete applications. The most prestigious schools reject students with poor grades without even looking at the rest of their applications.
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* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'', the admission requirements and tests for the country's most prestigious university, Tono U, are portrayed fairly realistically for a prestigious university even though the university itself is fictional. However, the trope comes in as part of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil; apparently, the StudentCouncilPresident can just hand out recommendations for students who have made noteworthy contributions to the school (student council vice-presidents and seventh witches among others) so they automatically can get admitted to a more average university. How this even works, especially when it comes to seventh witches (since the general populace doesn't know about witches), is never explained.
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* In ''Film/{{Legally Blonde}}'', Elle Woods submits a video application instead of the requested essay, allowing the Harvard Law admissions committee to see how pretty she is. ''And it works''. This is subverted when we find out that she had near-perfect LSAT scores and a 4.0 GPA, which would have most likely have gotten her in anyways.[[note]]Actual college admissions officers have commented that given her otherwise near-perfect academics, the video would have made her seem ''different'' than the piles of personality-challenged resumes they wade through, thus assuring her admittance.[[/note]]
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* In ''Film/{{Legally Blonde}}'', Elle Woods submits a video application instead of the requested essay, allowing the Harvard Law admissions committee to see how pretty she is. ''And it works''. This is subverted when we find out that she had near-perfect LSAT [[UsefulNotes/LawSchoolAdmissionTest LSAT]] scores and a 4.0 GPA, which would have most likely have gotten her in anyways.[[note]]Actual college admissions officers have commented that given her otherwise near-perfect academics, the video would have made her seem ''different'' than the piles of personality-challenged resumes they wade through, thus assuring her admittance.[[/note]]
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** Most maddening is that not only do Rachel, Kurt, and Finn all apply absurdly late and receive their admission letters days before graduation, but none of the kids even ''think'' of going to school long-term in their home state of Ohio, which has over a dozen public universities and several prestigious private ones.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' episode "Alma Matter," Will meets with a Princeton recruiter after Uncle Phil insists. The recruiter points out that "[his] scores are mediocre, [his] grades would make an impressive batting average, and [his] extracurricular activities are non-existent." On his way out, just for giggles, Will grabs a Rubik's cube off the desk and solves it in seconds... and the recruiter ends up begging him to attend Princeton. Meanwhile, Carlton tries acting like Will at his own interview, which doesn't impress the recruiter, despite him pointing out that "[his] scores are topnotch and [his] grades couldn't be better." So Will gets in because of a Rubik's cube, while Carlton is blown off by ''acting exactly like Will.'' This situation also ignores the "legacy admissions" system many universities have, of offering preferential admission to the children (and occasionally other relatives) of their alumni -- and Princeton's is one of the strongest, with about 30% of Legacy Applicants admitted, compared to 7.4% of non-legacy applicants.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' episode "Alma Matter," Will meets with a Princeton recruiter after Uncle Phil insists. The recruiter points out that "[his] scores are mediocre, [his] grades would make an impressive batting average, and [his] extracurricular activities are non-existent." On his way out, just for giggles, Will grabs a Rubik's cube off the desk and solves it in seconds... and the recruiter ends up begging him to attend Princeton. Meanwhile, Carlton tries acting like Will at his own interview, which doesn't impress the recruiter, despite him pointing out that "[his] scores are topnotch and [his] grades couldn't be better." So Will gets in because of a Rubik's cube, while Carlton is blown off by ''acting exactly like Will.'' This situation also ignores the "legacy admissions" system many universities have, of offering preferential admission to the children (and occasionally other relatives) of their alumni -- and Princeton's is one of the strongest, with about 30% of Legacy Applicants admitted, compared to 7.4% of non-legacy applicants.
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** Most maddening is that not only do Rachel, Kurt, and Finn all apply absurdly late and receive their admission letters days before graduation, but none of the kids even ''think'' of going to school long-term in their home state of Ohio, which has over a dozen public universities universities[[note]]13 to be exact[[/note]] and several prestigious private ones.
* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' episode "AlmaMatter," Matter", Will meets with a Princeton recruiter after Uncle Phil insists. The recruiter points out that "[his] scores are mediocre, [his] grades would make an impressive batting average, and [his] extracurricular activities are non-existent." On his way out, just for giggles, Will grabs a Rubik's cube off the desk and solves it in seconds... and the recruiter ends up begging him to attend Princeton. Meanwhile, Carlton tries acting like Will at his own interview, which doesn't impress the recruiter, despite him pointing out that "[his] scores are topnotch and [his] grades couldn't be better." So Will gets in because of a Rubik's cube, while Carlton is blown off by ''acting exactly like Will.'' This situation also ignores the "legacy admissions" system many universities have, of offering preferential admission to the children (and occasionally other relatives) of their alumni -- and Princeton's is one of the strongest, with about 30% of Legacy Applicants legacy applicants admitted, compared to 7.4% of non-legacy applicants.
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** Going along with this, during the series finale we find out that Zack got into Yale, as his mom made him apply after he did so well on the SAT. No school, particularly an Ivy League, would admit someone ''solely'' based on their SAT scores. They want students who will keep their grades up and make the school look good, and someone who's BrilliantButLazy does jack-squat for their numbers.
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** Going along with this, during the series finale we find out that Zack got into Yale, as his mom made him apply after he did so well on the SAT. No school, particularly an Ivy League, Ivy, would admit someone ''solely'' based on their SAT scores. They want students who will keep their grades up and make the school look good, and someone who's BrilliantButLazy does jack-squat for their numbers.
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** Brenda entered the same school after leaving the University of Minnesota earlier in season 4. Even if she was accepted to CU earlier, classes had already started at that school, so it doesn't really make sense since Brenda should've at least applied for late admission (though no such mechanics are ever mentioned).
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** Brenda entered the same school after leaving the University of Minnesota Minnesota[[note]]The series started with the Walsh family having moved from the UsefulNotes/TwinCities to Beverly Hills.[[/note]] earlier in season 4. Even if she was accepted to CU earlier, classes had already started at that school, so it doesn't really make sense since Brenda should've at least applied for late admission (though no such mechanics are ever mentioned).
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Remember, university admissions processes are different all over the world. This is primarily about UsefulNotes/UnitedStates university admissions, but some of the worst abuse of this trope happens when American media tries to portray foreign universities. For example, in the UK there are processes known as "pooling"[[note]]Rejected [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford and Cambridge]] applicants are entered into a pool for other colleges to look at their application and offer them a spot[[/note]] and "clearing"[[note]]Students who either didn't apply or failed to get the required grades can call to request spots from any universities advertising places remaining a month prior to the start of the academic year[[/note]] that would be seen as massive violations of admissions policy in America.
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Remember, university admissions processes are different all over the world. This is primarily about UsefulNotes/UnitedStates university admissions, but some of the worst abuse of this trope happens when American media tries to portray foreign universities. For example, in the UK there are processes known as "pooling"[[note]]Rejected [[UsefulNotes/{{Oxbridge}} Oxford and Cambridge]] applicants are entered into a pool for other colleges [[UsefulNotes/BritishUnis universities]] to look at their application and offer them a spot[[/note]] and "clearing"[[note]]Students who either didn't apply or failed to get the required grades can call to request spots from any universities advertising places remaining a month prior to the start of the academic year[[/note]] that would be seen as massive violations of admissions policy in America.
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* The story implies that a poor character's ''only'' hope for attending college is winning a full-ride scholarship, as if there aren't also loans, need-based grants, work-study programs, and/or attending a two-year college for an associates degree ''then'' transferring to a four-year school.
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* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or low-ranked state universities that admit everyone with the minimum grade requirements.
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* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or low-ranked state universities that admit everyone with the minimum grade requirements.open admission.
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In the United States, university admissions are a long, tedious process, and involve a lot of waiting, a lot of hard work, and even more hoping and praying. In fiction, it involves a lot of things that wouldn't happen in RealLife, including the colleges ignoring their own standards, school officials (other than the Admissions Committee) directly intervening in student's admissions process, improbable or downright impossible financial aid, bizarre timetables, and a lot of hijinks and chicanery on the part of the applicants that would get them summarily turned down or possibly even arrested.
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In the United States, university admissions are a long, tedious process, and involve a lot of hard work filling out forms and sending supporting documents, waiting, a lot of hard work, and even more hoping and praying. praying.
In fiction, it involves a lot of things that wouldn't happen in RealLife, including the colleges ignoring their own standards, school officials (other than the Admissions Committee) directly intervening in student's admissions process, subjective decisions, improbable or downright impossible financialaid, aid offers, bizarre timetables, and a lot of hijinks and chicanery on the part of the applicants that would get them summarily turned down or possibly even arrested.
arrested (in the case of depictions of applicants committing fraud).
In fiction, it involves a lot of things that wouldn't happen in RealLife, including the colleges ignoring their own standards, school officials (other than the Admissions Committee) directly intervening in student's admissions process, subjective decisions, improbable or downright impossible financial
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* A character successfully pulls a wacky stunt or confronts an admissions officer with a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech to get into the university of their dreams. In real life, this will get you summarily rejected and (depending on what the stunt was) possibly arrested and banned from that university.
* A high-ranking admissions officer or professor makes all admissions decisions personally, up to and including one-on-one interviews with applicants. While this may be the case for some smaller schools, most well-known schools receive thousands of applications, and direct contact between applicants and admissions officers is discouraged to preserve the appearance of impartiality.
* A character who isn't an athlete is offered a spot at a prestigious school without applying at all because they were 'scouted' by an official. While students with high grades may receive letters from prestigious schools persuading them to apply, they're never directly given a spot in the school unless they're an athlete.
* A character gets into a prestigious school with terrible grades and only one reference. Most schools require multiple references and will reject any incomplete applications, and prestigious schools will almost always reject students with poor grades without even looking at the rest of their applications.
* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or state universities that admit everyone.
* A school has specific, bizarre, or arbitrary admissions criteria that one couldn't reasonably expect a student to meet through regular schoolwork.
* A character hinges all of their hopes on one competitive scholarship and/or highly-selective school, with no Plan B to speak of.
* A character learns about their admission/rejection far later than most schools give said results (especially if it's ''right'' before school starts). In real life, unless you applied early, most notification dates are in late March or early April.
* A high-ranking admissions officer or professor makes all admissions decisions personally, up to and including one-on-one interviews with applicants. While this may be the case for some smaller schools, most well-known schools receive thousands of applications, and direct contact between applicants and admissions officers is discouraged to preserve the appearance of impartiality.
* A character who isn't an athlete is offered a spot at a prestigious school without applying at all because they were 'scouted' by an official. While students with high grades may receive letters from prestigious schools persuading them to apply, they're never directly given a spot in the school unless they're an athlete.
* A character gets into a prestigious school with terrible grades and only one reference. Most schools require multiple references and will reject any incomplete applications, and prestigious schools will almost always reject students with poor grades without even looking at the rest of their applications.
* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or state universities that admit everyone.
* A school has specific, bizarre, or arbitrary admissions criteria that one couldn't reasonably expect a student to meet through regular schoolwork.
* A character hinges all of their hopes on one competitive scholarship and/or highly-selective school, with no Plan B to speak of.
* A character learns about their admission/rejection far later than most schools give said results (especially if it's ''right'' before school starts). In real life, unless you applied early, most notification dates are in late March or early April.
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* A character successfully pulls a wacky stunt or confronts an admissions officer with a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech to get into the university of their dreams. In real life, this will get you summarily rejected and (depending on what the stunt was) possibly arrested and banned barred from that university.
* A high-ranking admissions officer or professor makes all admissions decisions personally, up to and including one-on-one interviews with applicants. While this may be the case for somesmaller tiny schools, most well-known schools receive thousands of applications, and direct contact between applicants and admissions officers is discouraged to preserve the appearance of impartiality.
* A character who isn't an athlete is offered a spot at a prestigious school without applying at all because they were 'scouted' by anofficial. official who saw them run or play ball. While students with high grades may receive letters from prestigious schools persuading them to apply, they're never directly given ''given'' a spot in the school unless they're an athlete.
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* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or low-ranked state universities that admiteveryone.
everyone with the minimum grade requirements.
* A school has specific, bizarre, or arbitrary admissions criteria that one couldn't reasonably expect a student to meet through regularschoolwork.
schoolwork, or which would fall afoul of legal rules.
* A character hinges all of their hopes on one competitive scholarship and/or highly-selective school, with no Plan B or "backup school" to speak of.
* A character learns about their admission/rejection far later than most schools give said results (especially if it's ''right'' before schoolstarts).starts, to add drama). In real life, unless you applied early, most notification dates are in late March or early April.
* A high-ranking admissions officer or professor makes all admissions decisions personally, up to and including one-on-one interviews with applicants. While this may be the case for some
* A character who isn't an athlete is offered a spot at a prestigious school without applying at all because they were 'scouted' by an
* A character gets into a prestigious school with terrible grades and only one reference. Most good schools require multiple references and high grades and will reject any incomplete
* A character with decent or mediocre grades can't get into ''any'' school, including community colleges, for-profit schools, or low-ranked state universities that admit
* A school has specific, bizarre, or arbitrary admissions criteria that one couldn't reasonably expect a student to meet through regular
* A character hinges all of their hopes on one competitive scholarship and/or highly-selective school, with no Plan B or "backup school" to speak of.
* A character learns about their admission/rejection far later than most schools give said results (especially if it's ''right'' before school
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned due to an act of accidental sabotage from the character’s brother, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider ''going'' to college until the principal had him brought to his office to tell him the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day'' to personally see his experiment, and receiving a leaflet about it from him. As a result, the student is realistically forced to go to a ''far'' less prestigious school instead.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned due to an act of accidental sabotage from the character’s brother, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider ''going'' to college until the principal had him brought to his office to tell him the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day'' to personally see his experiment, and receiving give him a leaflet pamphlet about it from him.the school. As a result, the student is realistically forced to go to a ''far'' less prestigious school instead.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider going to college prior to being brought into the principal’s office, told the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day'' to personally see his experiment, and receiving a leaflet about it from him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, planned due to an act of accidental sabotage from the character’s brother, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider going ''going'' to college prior to being until the principal had him brought into the principal’s office, told to his office to tell him the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day'' to personally see his experiment, and receiving a leaflet about it from him.him. As a result, the student is realistically forced to go to a ''far'' less prestigious school instead.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider going to college prior to being brought into the principal’s office, told the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day,'' and receiving a leaflet about it from him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question didn't apply to any other good schools, or even seriously consider going to college prior to being brought into the principal’s office, told the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day,'' day'' to personally see his experiment, and receiving a leaflet about it from him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question had apparently not applied to any other good schools or even seriously considered going to college prior to receiving a leaflet from this on particular school.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' future episode, ''Act Your Age'', when Isabella is leaving for college, Phineas hasn't decided where ''he's'' going to college. That very same day, he decides to go to the same school as her. In reality, even for schools with high acceptance rates, he would still have had to register and pay tuition months in advance to secure his spot at the school. Additionally, even if he ''did'' already get accepted to that college, he would still have had to accept their offer of acceptance well in advance in order to attend.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' future episode, ''Act Your Age'', when Isabella is leaving for college, Phineas hasn't decided where ''he's'' going to college. That very same day, he decides to go to the same school as her. In reality, even for schools with high acceptance rates, he would still have had to register and pay tuition months in advance to secure his spot at the school. Additionally, even if he ''did'' already get accepted to that college, he would still have had to accept their offer of acceptance well in advance in order to attend.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', a character's admission to a prestigious university hinges entirely on a single science fair project that he presents personally to an admissions officer. When the project doesn't work as planned, the officer rejects the student immediately without looking at any of the student's documentation of his work or giving him a chance to explain what went wrong. Despite being an academic prodigy and a lover of science, the student in question had apparently not applied didn't apply to any other good schools schools, or even seriously considered consider going to college prior to being brought into the principal’s office, told the admissions officials of this one particular school were coming ''the next day,'' and receiving a leaflet about it from this on particular school.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' future episode, ''Act Your Age'', when Isabella is leaving for college, Phineas hasn't decided where ''he's'' going to college. That very same day, he decides to go to the same school as her. In reality, even for schools with high acceptance rates, hewould would’ve still have had to register and pay tuition months in advance to secure his spot at the school. Additionally, even if he ''did'' already get accepted to that college, he would still he’d have had to accept their offer of acceptance well in advance in order to attend.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' future episode, ''Act Your Age'', when Isabella is leaving for college, Phineas hasn't decided where ''he's'' going to college. That very same day, he decides to go to the same school as her. In reality, even for schools with high acceptance rates, he
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* Occurs in the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode "UsefulNotes/SATs". Zack, who's lucky to never repeat a grade and only takes up extracurriculars for [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat plot points]] that are never brought up again, scored a 1502 on the SAT and the "Stansbury" recruiter wants to eat him up. Meanwhile, Jessi's had one B in her life and has an impressive list of extracurricular activities, but when she scores a 1205 on the SAT, she gets the cold shoulder from the recruiter. In reality, while [=SATs=] are taken into account, they're not the ''only'' thing taken into account - they also look for overall school grades and extracurriculars, in case the SAT scores were a fluke.
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* Occurs in the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode "UsefulNotes/SATs". Zack, who's lucky to never repeat a grade and only takes up extracurriculars for [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat plot points]] that are never brought up again, scored a 1502 on the SAT and the "Stansbury" recruiter wants to eat him up. Meanwhile, Jessi's had one B in her life and has an impressive list of extracurricular activities, but when she scores a 1205 on the SAT, she gets the cold shoulder from the recruiter. In reality, while [=SATs=] are taken into account, they're not the ''only'' thing taken into account - they also look for overall school grades and extracurriculars, in case the SAT scores were a fluke. (Not to mention that the stated scores are impossible in real life; the SAT is scored in 10-point increments.)
