Bartleby (B.) Gaines is a fun loving slacker who, unfortunately, gets
turned down for every college he applied for, much to the chagrin of his
overly expectant parents. So, with a little cutting and pasting, he creates
the South Harmon Institute of Technology, and lo and behold, he is accepted
(along with his friends Rory, Hands, and Glen, whose college plans were
also all but dashed). However, his parents want to see the website, the
campus, and the dean. So now he has his other friend Sherman (who has been
accepted to the prestigious Harmon College) build a web page, they lease
out an abandoned psychiatric hospital, and they hire Sherman's uncle Ben to
be the dean. Problem solved? Not quite. The web page was done so well, that
hundreds of students show up at the front door, all of which were turned
down by other colleges. Faced with no choice, Bartleby decides to proceed
with turning South Harmon into a real college, and sets about figuring out
what to teach and how to teach it. Meanwhile at Harmon, dean Van Horne
meets with Hoyt Ambrose, a rich law student and head of the KBE fraternity
(which Sherman is trying to become a member of), to discuss building a
gateway for Harmon using land presently being used by South Harmon. He
tries finding the leaseholder of the land, to no avail. Meanwhile, his
girlfriend, Monica, catches him cheating on her, and a big party at South
Harmon lures a chunk of Harmon's students away, including Monica into the
arms of Bartleby. Now Hoyt uses Sherman, knowing he has been bouncing
between the two schools, in an attempt to bring South Harmon down for good.
However, Bartleby has an accreditation appointment with the state Board of
Education to prove South Harmon's worthiness. Can he legally bring the
South Harmon Institute of Technology to life and win the love of Monica?
After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided
to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology,
with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too
well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must
find a way to give the education and future his students and friends
deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next
door
