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Accepted
Accepted follows four high school students at T.M. Landry, a prep school in rural Louisiana known for its viral videos of seniors being accepted to the Ivy Leagues and sending 100% of its graduates to college. But an explosive NY Times article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder – and the fiction of meritocracy in American higher education.

Watch the broadcast premiere of Accepted on the award-winning television series POV on October 10th at 10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, pbs.org, and the PBS Video app.
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  • ‘Accepted’ Filmmakers On How They Pivoted When “Miracle School Story” They Thought They Were Making Suddenly Exploded: “The S**t Hit The Fan” - Feature in Deadline
     
  • How ‘Accepted’ Director Dan Chen Shines A Light On Students Amidst A Broken System - Feature in The Black Cape
     
  • Why Media Representation Alone Will Never Make You Feel Accepted - Feature in Talkhouse
     
  • Accepted: behind a US college admissions scandal and the students affected - Feature in The Guardian
     
  • Review in The Hollywood Reporter

“We went into it wanting to tell the story of the students from their perspective, but there still was kinda a magical field around the school. By peeling away the magical kind of forcefield around it, we got to then focus on the kids as individuals, and not as miracle students at a miracle school. We got to see their flaws, their hopes, their dreams, their everyday life as it really was without any of the baggage attached to them.” -Dan Chen, Filmmaker
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