With graduation exercises over and done, kids are preparing for college. Hopefully, they have gotten in to their first choice school. After exchanging information with their assigned roommate, they'll go out and shop for a new wardrobe (and receive instructions from mom on how to launder it).
What if you can't get into your favorite school and end up on a waiting list? Lawrence Yong, of Los Angeles, California found himself in just such a predicament. He was placed on the waiting list for the University of Michigan. He wasn't going to rely on the essay he wrote for his application. He decided to sing is way into the school. He rewrote the words to the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," and posted the video on YouTube. Personally, I might have chosen the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."
http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/teen-sings-way-off-university-michigan-wait-list-225904744--abc-news-topstories.html
Lawrence made it into U Michigan, and it's possible the video helped. If it turns out he doesn't like Michigan as much as he thought he would, he could always transfer to Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. "Straight No Chaser" might be auditioning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_No_Chaser_(group)
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