Accepted Plot

Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college.

When Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long), a high school burnout, discovers he was rejected from every college he applied to, he creates the fictional South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) to fool his parents. However, Bartleby and his friends accidentally make the school's fake web page functional and find hundreds of would-be applicants showing up for orientation, complete with their checks for a year's tuition. They are forced to hire a former teacher, Bartleby's best friend's Uncle (Lewis Black) to be their dean, fix up an old mental hospital, and start the college without anyone finding out the truth.

At one point Bartleby wants to end the charade before it begins, but is overcome with pity after realizing that everyone in the college is in the exact same position he is in having been rejected from every other college. Thus begins the first year of classes, founded on the revolutionary notion of students choosing what they want to learn and teaching the very same courses. At the same time, Bartleby shyly pursues Monica, a friend from high school he has had a long-time crush on.

Eventually, the dean of neighboring Harmon University attempts to get S.H.I.T. shut down in an underhanded move to throw Bartleby in jail and tear down the mental hospital to build a fancy entrance gate for his college. Bartleby's friend Sherman (Jonah Hill), despite being a freshman at Harmon University and a new pledge in a Harmon fraternity (called BKE), applies for accreditation for S.H.I.T., and Bartleby successfully argues his way to a one-year temporary accreditation. The students return to the new college and begin a full year of ad-hoc classes and partying.

Taglines:
Reject Rejection.
When every college turned them down...they made one up.

On opening weekend it made an estimated $10,023,835 in the USA and Canada.

As of September 3rd, 2006, the movie has gained an estimated $28,166,000 in the USA and Canada.