Try Harder!
A Storyville documentary that follows students at San Francisco's Lowell High School as they navigate their way through the highly competitive US university application process.
The American college application process can be stressful at the best of times. For the super-smart, mostly Asian-American students at San Francisco鈥檚 Lowell High School, it鈥檚 emotionally draining. At Lowell, it鈥檚 cool to be a nerd 鈥� everyone is talented.
This Storyville documentary follows a group of students as they make their university applications, all of them under pressure to get a prized spot at one of the country鈥檚 most elite institutions. Try Harder! is a portrait of young adults in the most diverse American generation ever, navigating their way through a quintessential rite of passage.
Last on
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
-
![]()
00:40Zoot Sims
Blinuet (Dj Remix)
Broadcast
- Wed 16 Feb 2022 22:00
Featured in...
![]()
Storyville
Amazing, shocking, inspiring and award-winning - the best in international documentaries.
![]()
Thought-provoking Global Stories
Learn more about the world we live in with these thought-provoking documentaries.
![]()
Documentary Films
Compelling stories from around the world - captured on camera.
![]()
iPlayer 13-15 Homepage :: Documentaries
iPlayer 13-15 Homepage - Documentaries
