Unsuspecting Parents Read Daughter's College Acceptance On Video, Reaction Goes Viral

Parents react to college acceptance letter: They started off not knowing what it was exactly that they were reading. Their daughter, Gurjiv, apparently told them it was a video for extra credit for school. "You just have to read. It's like tongue twisters," she said, handing them a piece of paper as they sat somberly, facing the camera she set up with all three of them in the frame.

When they unfolded the paper to read, their expressions changed from confusion to shock to utter delight as realisation hit what lay in front of their eyes.

"It's incredible," her father first exclaimed. "Woah! San Antonio, already?"

Between peals of elated laughter, her mother asks, "What? You just had your interview today." "I got an email an hour later," Gurjiv explains, while her beaming father struggles to find words beyond "oh my god." He then proudly proceeds to read the acceptance letter aloud, beginning right at the top with his daughter's name and punctuation, et al.

Watch the viral video here: 

so i told my parents we were making a video for extra credit but what they actually read was my first acceptance into optometry school pic.twitter.com/zjTbcWnuXn

— gurjiv comma (@jeeeverz) May 19, 2021

 

 

Parents React To College Acceptance Letter, Leave Internet Heart-Eyed

The internet has clearly thoroughly enjoyed Gurjiv's

so i told my parents we were making a video for extra credit but what they actually read was my first acceptance into optometry school pic.twitter.com/zjTbcWnuXn

— gurjiv comma (@jeeeverz) May 19, 2021 clip, which has amassed over 7000 likes and almost a thousand shares in a matter of three hours alone. Many thanked her for blessing their feeds with such pure, mid-week joy.

"This is beautiful, thank you so much for sharing this <3. And congrats!!" writer Nikhil Taneja said, reacting to the video. "This is so lovely and heartwarming. God bless you and your parents. I hope you achieve great things in life," another user wrote. "omg awww my hearttt! This is sooo adorable, congrats," another said.

What netizens found most endearing was the way Gurjiv's father relished even the comma beside her name on the letter as much as he did the acceptance itself. "if one reads a Comma with such a timed pause , means they are going to read the rest of the letter over and over and over again," a user wrote.

Getting folks at home to react to acceptance letters or other life milestones on-camera accounts for one of the most popular trends on social media. The youth has found it's a way to both invite millions of global netizens to bring in the cheer with them and record the surprise in their loved ones' faces for posterity.