<p>I’m not sure if you have your heart set on Ivies or not, but University of Michigan has an amazing screenwriting program underway.<br>
It doesn’t have much publicity, because it’s really taken off in the last 5 years. </p>
<p>(The Film program just got changed to the “Department of Screen Arts and Cultures,” so all the webpages are a mess and not very helpful).</p>
<p>It’s an undergraduate program, and you can’t major in screenwriting per se, but you can get a SAC major and “focus” on screenwriting - basically the same idea.</p>
<p>Anyway, the writing is rigorous. 1st semester you write an entire screenplay. 2nd semester you revise it (VERY important skill to learn!) and 3rd, you write a new one, etc. Your classes will probably be under 20 people, and if you make it to screenwriting 3 it will be about 6 people, I think screenwriting 4 is an independent study!</p>
<p>I learned more in my screenwriting classes about plot, theme, character, structure, most of all, time management, than I learned in ANY of my writing classes for the 5 years I was at college. And I majored in creative writing.</p>
<p>U of M’s screenwriting is going to blow up soon, it is WAY too good to be true, best-kept secret in screenwriting. You can pursue it purely as an art, or from a buisiness point of view.</p>
<p>Only con: U of M’s cinema studies classes are great, but their production classes aren’t. So if you want to direct or be a camera person, I don’t suggest the program. But for studies, great; for writing, AMAZING!</p>