Anyone who has longed to attend college and waited months for acceptance packages only to be rejected over and over again should find solace in Accepted.

After opening seven rejection letters in a row from various colleges and universities, Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) has one more school to hear from, and this will be his final opportunity to obtain a post-secondary education. 

Bartleby’s father (Mark Derwin) cannot believe it when his son presents him with charts, graphs, and statistics indicating people who lack degrees are able to thrive on a minimum of $20,000 a year. Bartleby tells his parents he would rather earn $20,000 a year than have them spend $80,000 in tuition. Naturally, this is an excuse to hide the truth about his lack of acceptance everywhere he's applied.

Bartleby opens his final rejection letter and crumples it up. Not sure how to break the news to his folks, he  has a stroke of genius and decides to scan the note into his computer. He changes the font, color and size of the logo, then picks South Harmon Institute of Technology as the name of the bogus college. He thinks the name makes it easier to trick his family into believing he's been accepted by a branch of the well-known Harmon College.

Bartleby knows his ruse will be uncovered unless certain precautions are taken. His father will want information, and the first place he'll surely turn to is the Internet, so Bartleby twists the arm of Schrader (Jonah Hill), a hacker and Web developer, and persuades him to design a credible Internet portal for South Harmon Institute of Technology.

In his haste, Schrader uploads the site and the counterfeit acceptance letter to the Internet. Neither he nor Bartleby could possibly anticipate what happens next. After printing out Bartleby's acceptance letter, swarms of people mistakenly believe they have been automatically accepted into South Harmon Institute of Technology.  

Unimpressed with the South Harmon Institute of Technology after reading on the site that this school wants students to be whatever they wish to be, Bartleby's father demands a meeting with the dean (Lewis Black) before plunking down his son’s tuition. However, the dean is unstable -- and, of course, allows the students to create their own courses such as Skepticism 101.

Is it any wonder Harmon College wants to close the doors of the South Harmon Institute of Technololgy and take over the land to build an arch?  

I admired Long's low-key, natural performance as Bartleby in this amusing comedy and found Black hilarious in scenes where the foul-mouthed dean meets Bartleby's parents. Final evaluation: Accepted turned out to be more than acceptable for me.

(Released by Universal Studios and rated "PG" for language, sexual material and drug content.)