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| | Inside Higher Ed :: Reality TV 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Shot on the campus of the University of Southern California, the show pits 10 low-income, acne-free brainiac high school seniors against one another in intellectual competition, for a full scholarship to any college to which they are accepted. |
 | | Not to worry, though, if you happen to be a reality TV traditionalist: there’s a pillow fight in the first episode. |
 | | Other times, the seeds of more typical reality TV fare are sown: “I suppose it’s fair to say Davis gives me butterflies,” confesses Liz, a Yale-hopeful from Buhl, Idaho; or when Max divulges his attraction to two other competitors as the narrator reminds us that college is also a time for “social awakening.” |
| www.insidehighered.com /news/2005/05/16/tv (1505 words) |
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