Chance Me! (Film Schools)

reese8
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:46:38 +0000

Hello! I am a current high school senior who has applied to study film production at USC, UCLA, Chapman, NYU, Ryerson and ASU (already accepted). I am wondering what my chances are so I know if I need to be worried all the way out into April waiting to get my decisions back or if I can maybe be more realistic with my options.

I am a female who lives in Arizona, but I am originally from Canada so I am a dual US-Canadian citizen.

Academics:
GPA: 4.50 W/3.95 UW
Rank: 34/647
SAT: 1270 (only took once & submitted to 2 schools since others wouldn’t accept it this year)
6 APs (currently taking 4)
APUSH: 5
Lang & Comp: 4

EC’s:

Secretary of my school’s Media Productions club for 2 years (disbanded this year due to COVID)

Competed on my school’s SKILLSUSA Broadcast News team twice, won regionals and advanced to state in 2020 but competition was canceled

Daily news anchor on my school’s morning announcements, reported the weather and worked with the tricaster editing segments behind the scenes

Won 2nd place school award for final project in Media Productions, asked personally to film and edit sample teaching tape for teacher who was trying to get a job out of state (she was hired!)

Volunteered with the National Charity League for 6 years, won award for most hours volunteered in entire chapter 2 years in a row, received congressional award for efforts from local congresswoman

Portfolio:

I have an editing YouTube channel with over 530,000 subscribers and 270,000,000 views. I talked a lot about this in my essays because it has been my job since grade 9 and I’ve put all of my work into it. I’ve done brand deals with large companies like Boxlunch and I run my own merchandise store. I edit almost daily and am skilled with Final Cut Pro and After Effects.

I felt confident with most of my portfolio pieces, including short films. Only lackluster part was my letter of recs, I had one from my media productions teacher, one from a board member of my volunteer organization and one from my counselor. I don’t think they said anything too specific, just generally that I was a good student/member. Definitely should have been more diligent with those.

That’s all! Thank you so much for reading