<p>@canada</p>
<p>Glad to hear you applied to SCA! :)</p>
<p>I’m having a terrific time in SCA and could imagine no better place in the world for someone who wants to be involved in the entertainment industry. I have many friends in the Screenwriting major, and all of them love it. It’s a BFA, not a BA, which means more major-specific courses - and they tell me as a result, their schedules are packed and what they take is pretty much predetermined for them. But they tell me this as a matter of fact, not a complaint. They’re a very close-knit group that loves what they do. </p>
<p>Depends on whether you’re going to be proactive or not. If all you’re going to do at SC is just go to the classes and such, then no, you probably won’t get much out of it. But as an SCA student, you will get emails all the time from SCA and your specific department about upcoming visits, presentations, and info sessions from big name companies (I’ve attended sessions held by Disney Interactive, Blizzard, Microsoft Games, etc etc.) all the time. If you go to these, meet people, and keep up with them, then you will have the time of your life. Half of being in the entertainment industry is MAKING CONNECTIONS, and USC gives you the unparalleled opportunity to do just that. To put in as an analogy: USC will provide you with many refrigerators for you to put your sandwiches in that no other school ever could - but it’s up to YOU to actually use those refrigerators. </p>
<p>My CTCS190 (Intro to Cinema, you’ll be taking it) TA told me that in the entertainment industry, at meetings and such, he’ll always see people from other schools (well, he specifically said UCLA, but I didn’t want to start trouble :P) scattered all about, but USC people sitting together, keeping up with one another, and sticking together. Even more so than the Trojan family itself, SCA itself is a great network. </p>
<p>Hope to welcome you to the SCA family in August.</p>