<p>I agree with SCHedgie’s “intellectually curious lol” note. Don’t mix up “passionate about what you do” with “intellectually curious.” There are a good number of people in the arts who are passionate about/talented at what they do but aren’t necessarily intellectually curious/are very narrow-sighted otherwise, knowing/caring little about stuff outside their field of interest.</p>
<p>That said, I like the handful of good friends I’ve made through SCA. Two of my best friends just graduated from SCA. Some really cool people, and I can’t imagine any other university where the majority of my peers would be able to talk to me casually about video editing, game design, and screenwriting and such whenever - everyone “speaks the language,” which certainly wasn’t the case when I wanted to talk about filmmaking and such in HS.</p>