Can you attend the USC School of Cinematic Arts and still fail or give up early on in your career or still not make it big or not take full advantage of the networking that being among the SCA Mafia / Trojan Mafia might afford you over time? Well… of course. Harvard Law School grads, Wharton Business school grads and even Rhodes Scholars fail too. SCA is not a Golden Ticket or Magic Key to guaranteed success. But no other film school offers a greater potential platform or foundation for success in film or television… or its ancillary entertainment industry roles.
SCA has more than 10,000 alumni. My older daughter is already connected to over 1000 of them on LinkedIn.
Among the most notable SCA alumni are:
Judd Apatow
John Carpenter
Jon Chu
Ryan Coogler
Richard Edlund
Kevin Feige
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
James Ivory
Rian Johnson
Eric Kripke
Jon Landau
Doug Liman
George Lucas
John Milius
Paula Patton
Kevin Reynolds
Jay Roach
Shonda Rhimes
Bryan Singer
John Singleton
Jon Turteltaub
Matthew Weiner
John Wells
Robert Zemeckis
And most started out at the bottom… and worked their way upward over time.