<p>I mean seriously, college is not high school. If you don’t want to go to frats parties, don’t. </p>
<p>“Pursue film” how? Production? Screen writing? Parts of SCA are highly audition/portfolio dependent, assuming you’re talented enough to get admitted, you’ll be working with other equally or more talented classmates. There are few other schools, if any, that can match the caliber of film students at SC, grad or undergrad. Are you actually going to pass on SC because of some frat parties or tired stereotypes about ‘spoiled children’?</p>
<p>College is what you make of it not the other way around. If you want to dress in all black and pontificate on the wonders of Stieglitz and Eisenstein you’ll find friends. If you want to make adventure films like Lucas or Spielberg you’ll find friends. It’s up to you.</p>
<p>As for how ‘comforting’ an environment USC possesses, again, it’s not high school. No one will hold your hand or tell you what to do. If you want to get to know your professors, seek them out. If you want to get involved in making films, then make them. But I’ll warn you, from what I’ve seen and heard “comforting” is one of the last words I’d use to describe the film industry.</p>