Getting into the USC Film and Television Production Program.

If you have the grades for USC, you'd be crazy not to apply. Even if you don't, 60 dollars or whatever the application fee is isn't too bad.

Don't let financial issues concern you. If you get into a good school, they'll pay. My family's not that wealthy, but we're getting about 30 grand a year in loans and financial aid, and every school I was accepted to offered a similar amount of money (over 20 grand in pure scholarship, I think.) Go for it. You're in a position where if you get rejected, you won't care too much from the sound of things, and if you're considering applying, you obviously have great grades. Try other places like NYU. Columbia has a great film studies major, too, and they're very highly respected. The school I go to (Weslyean University) has an excellent film studies major and a bunch of alumni in Hollywood, but if you want to make movies instead of analyzing them, stay far, far away. It's pretty easy to get into compared with USC, though, and you don't need a portfolio or anything (average SATs are only around 1410.)
 
pookie said:
The people who you're quoting are whom exactly?
And they somehow are speaking from experience?

Sounds too much like the ones who couldn't get in are the ones that you're quoting.

The USC FS is about the top school out there.
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Those were people who have posted in this thread, that's all. You wanted to know where I got that idea from.

Ok, so if I can get into USC I'll try to go there, but I'll need a lot of scholarships.

Are there any obvious scholarships that I should try to get?
 
Policar said:
If you have the grades for USC, you'd be crazy not to apply. Even if you don't, 60 dollars or whatever the application fee is isn't too bad.

Don't let financial issues concern you. If you get into a good school, they'll pay. My family's not that wealthy, but we're getting about 30 grand a year in loans and financial aid, and every school I was accepted to offered a similar amount of money (over 20 grand in pure scholarship, I think.) Go for it. You're in a position where if you get rejected, you won't care too much from the sound of things, and if you're considering applying, you obviously have great grades. Try other places like NYU. Columbia has a great film studies major, too, and they're very highly respected. The school I go to (Weslyean University) has an excellent film studies major and a bunch of alumni in Hollywood, but if you want to make movies instead of analyzing them, stay far, far away. It's pretty easy to get into compared with USC, though, and you don't need a portfolio or anything (average SATs are only around 1410.)
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I don't want to have a huge loan to pay off after I graduate though...

I don't know the first thing about getting a scholarship (still trying to research it all).

I'd like to stay in California, won't out of state tuition rape me?

Also, what's considered good grades? 3.7-4.0 GPA is about what I have.

Also, did anybody here go to Brooks? If so, what do you have to say about it?
 
I've never heard of it, it might be good. There are a LOT of decent places, so just apply to a bunch, visit them all, then pick. If you're applying to just one school, you're asking for trouble. Apply to at least five or six. That's a good enough GPA if it's unscaled, although you'll need board scores and hard classes to back it up.

If you can't afford to pay for college, there will be loans one way or the other, although you can probably reduce them beyond what I have with work study programs, etc. Talk with a college advisor or someone at your school. Honestly, they will know a billion times more than us. We haven't seen your HS transcript, your portfolio, anything. And none of us know that much about film schools compared with people whose job it is to know that stuff.
 
My two cents: go somewhere that you're guaranteed to make at least one of your own projects and not just work on other people's stuff. The grad. program I'm in now requires you to complete two projects of your own before you leave, which means you're guaranteed to make two films. Also, the classes are about 60% hands on (meaning actually shooting, lighting, directing, writing scripts, producing, etc.) and 40%theory, which has been a good mix for me.
 
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