Film School Admissions

Nester
Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:42:31 +0000

TarantinoFan – Clearly you’re going to apply to USC and NYU and hopefully the film folks will love your stuff and go to the mat for you with admissions. If you go to college arts fairs, many of the college reps will tell you straight up that say an actress or a violinist they really want may get a break on numbers. Whether this happens with USC or NYU film is an unknown. All you can do is send them both the best application with the best recommendations you can muster and see what happens. Seriously, get going on that writing.

It sounds as if Chapman and LMU may be of interest. I don’t think their numbers are as high as for NYU or USC for the universities in general, so the film schools may be more accessible. If these look good to you, go for it.

With your interest in a hands-on, film centered program, please do look at NCSA. They are an arts college in the University of North Carolina system with spectacular filmmaking facilities and their program is exactly what you describe yourself as looking for. Florida State is also a place you should check out. These schools both have very competitive film programs BUT the threshold criteria of the colleges themselves are not as demanding in terms of numbers.

Isn’t there also an arts college in Chicago that has a top film program for undergrads?