UCSC vs UCSB film for 2015

anhydrite
Tue, 26 May 2015 03:39:25 +0000

I personally wouldn’t take USA Today seriously for anything, but what seems to be the issue here is UCSC is actually a production program, and UCSB is not. Since your gut seems to be leading you to a production program, maybe you should take the latter into consideration. They are both excellent schools, so that’s not much of a problem. The other aspects of UCSB seem to fit better for you, so what you should determine is whether you are willing to arrange things so you can get some production experience, and gain traction in the industry. There are certainly UCSB graduates in the industry, probably more than UCSC re: size, location, history, but I don’t have data to back that up.

You should also consider grad school, post-grad (where you want to live, alumni), and perhaps communicating with UCSB students and faculty if it remains a strong choice, to see what things will be like for that track re: industry. There’s definitely nothing wrong with UCSC, and several advantages there.