Mabel says she needs to write an essay to apply to community college but all community colleges have an open admissions policy. Anyone with a high school diploma or GED can simply enroll in classes.
When the rescue helicopter spots the survival raft, the message sent gives coordinates "at 42 degrees east, 65 degrees west."
Coordinates are supposed to be latitude (north or west to the equator) and longitude (east or west to the Greenwitch meridian).
It should be 42 degrees north, 65 degrees west (somewhere south of Nova Scotia, Canada).
Moreover, those coordinates are quite vague for a rescue mission.
1 degree is about 111km long (69mi) in latitude, and about 85km (83mi) in longitude.
When Ben Foster's character takes a leak outside his house the sound of a zipper can be heard although he is wearing track pants.