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High schoolers are inviting thousands of strangers to watch as they get into college — and get rejected

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High schoolers like Justin Chae and Nina Wang participated in the trend of documenting themselves as they learned which colleges they were accepted to. (Video: The Washington Post)
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Justin Chae woke up from a nap 10 minutes after Stanford University let early-action applicants for the freshman class of 2023 know whether they’d been admitted. With his camera perched next to him, Chae opened up his laptop.

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