Wondering when you need to get that film school application in? Below is a list of all current graduate film school deadlines as of December 2024.
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Wondering when you need to get that film school application in? Below is a list of all current undergraduate film school deadlines as of December 2024. Check out previous year's application acceptance data with our Application Tracker. Be sure to add your application to the database once...
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The overall acceptance rate for Emerson College is 41%, according to BestColleges.
However, according to the applications in our database, FilmSchool.org users have a much higher acceptance rate: 65% for Film and Media Art MFA students, 52% for Writing for Film and Television MFA students, and...
The University of Southern California is one of the most competitive universities worldwide. According to prepscholar.com, the School of Cinematic arts has an acceptance rate of only 3%.
However, Filmschool.org members have reported much higher acceptance rates. Thanks to our Application...
You've been wondering how hard it is to get into film school and what your are chances getting into top film programs such as USC. Maybe you’ve heard that their acceptance rate is 2% — but what is it, really? You've been wondering what is the lowest GPA a film program will accept and what is the...
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Columbia University has updated their Undergraduate Financial Aid for the 2022-2023 Academic Year and it states that families making less than $150,000 will be able to attend Columbia University for FREE.
"On April 26, 2022, Columbia University announced additional enhancements to financial aid...
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People often ask "What is the minimum GPA for USC film school?" Or "What is the acceptance rate of NYU film school?"
The problem is that Film Schools are often very tight lipped and secret about their acceptance rates and the minimum GPAs that they accept. However thanks to the over 3,200...
According to the LA Times all in person classes are canceled for the fall for all Cal State programs, including film.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/coronavirus-reopening-csu-fall-online-classes
For more info on the Cal State Film Schools check them out in our=Cal+State']...
This is Part 3 of the series with advice on how to get into film school given by the many members of FilmSchool.org over the years. The forums have been around for over 17 years so there are a ton of people who have gone what you are going through right now and lived to tell about it.
USC and...
This is Part 2 of the series with advice on how to get into film school given by the many members of FilmSchool.org over the years. The forums have been around for over 17 years so there are a ton of people who have gone what you are going through right now and lived to tell about it.
USC and...
Film Schools receives thousands of applications per year. How are you going to stand out? What are film schools looking for? In this article series I've gathered some of the best advice from the past 17 years on the forums on applying to film school.
According to the FilmSchool.org Application...
As a Supporting Member it is possible to have your own blog on FilmSchool.org. You can use your blog to write about the process of applying to film school, filmmaking, and attending film school once you are accepted. It is very easy to create your own blog on the site and current film students...
"I went to Columbia because I wanted to be a better storyteller and understanding structure... and I do think my storytelling
has gotten better and more complex and deeper and I'm really grateful to Columbia.... they delivered exactly what I expected them to deliver."
Recently I had the...
“Film School is still Graduate School... you're still getting a master's and there's still traditional work that has to be done. And a lot of people just thought like, oh well I’ll just come here and make a bunch of movies.”
Danni sitting with camera in kitchen - for her very first assignment...
(Photo by Miles Gehm)
There are many places to attend film school but there's definitely something to be said to going to school in the heart of all of the action. Below is a listing of the top LA Film Schools and it's surrounding area ranked by the review system as of January 2019.
If you are...
What is the best film school program out there? There are certainly a lot of opinions on the matter. FilmSchool.org's community has it's own as well. Below are the top ranked film school programs based on our Film School Review system. If you want to add a film to the list leave a comment below...
(Cannes Film Festival. Photo by Rita Molnár)
At a Q&A session with Christopher Nolan at Cannes (he's showing a 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey), he had some film school advice that was diametrically opposed to Alexander Payne's advice in the article last week:
Studying...
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