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Winning this game may just mean you get into the college of your choice
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Mar 14, 2014
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Winning this game may just mean you get into the college of your choice
A team of USC researchers seeks to make the college application process easier for teenagers to learn by making a game out of it.
11th grader plays Graduate Strike Force at Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles.
11th grader plays Graduate Strike Force at Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles.
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USC Education Professor Zoe Corwin talks to high school students playing the college-going game Graduate Strike Force.
USC Education Professor Zoe Corwin talks to high school students playing the college-going game Graduate Strike Force.
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Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
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A team of USC researchers seeks to make the college application process easier for teenagers to learn by making a game out of it.

You know those the hours and hours teenagers spend playing computer games? Well, several years ago a group of researchers asked themselves if they could harness that effort into something useful. Like getting into college.

KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports on what they came up with.