USC School of Cinematic Arts MFA Screenwriting Fall 2020

[studio54]

How/when do you set up the portal? Not sure if I did it or not.

You should have gotten a link to it in the e-mail providing you with your 10 digit ID after submitting your app!

 

[TheCasualReader]

i truly have no idea. I called yesterday and was told it’s ok to wait. Did you get the same one?

I haven't received any email informing me to fill it out but I just applied for financial aid recently, and I noticed there was a "financial aid supplement" I had not yet noticed. It requests intended unit count for the next four semesters (among other information), which, clearly, I do not yet have any knowledge about. I'm just curious if this was something we were supposed to fill out ages ago.

 

[princessjasmine]

I haven't received any email informing me to fill it out but I just applied for financial aid recently, and I noticed there was a "financial aid supplement" I had not yet noticed. It requests intended unit count for the next four semesters (among other information), which, clearly, I do not yet have any knowledge about. I'm just curious if this was something we were supposed to fill out ages ago.

That sounds like the one I got. They said it doesn’t affect decision and we can wait.

 

[TheCasualReader]

That sounds like the one I got. They said it doesn’t affect decision and we can wait.

"We can wait." If only that were so easy. I'm straight up stressing every other minute of the day. I was talking to my boyfriend about this, and we both decided that the wait is way worse than any rejection we've ever gotten. I just want to know one way or the other.

 

[princessjasmine]

"We can wait." If only that were so easy. I'm straight up stressing every other minute of the day. I was talking to my boyfriend about this, and we both decided that the wait is way worse than any rejection we've ever gotten. I just want to know one way or the other.

I couldn’t agree more, waiting is the worst

 

[Write2Eat]

Should I have applied for financial aid already? I submitted my FAFSA but have done nothing else.

 

[princessjasmine]

Should I have applied for financial aid already? I submitted my FAFSA but have done nothing else.

I submitted the scholarship apps with my application, and the FAFSA. I don’t think there’s anything else besides that.

 

[Write2Eat]

I submitted the scholarship apps with my application, and the FAFSA. I don’t think there’s anything else besides that.

OK yeah that's all I did, too, but noticed people upthread talking about the financial aid supplement. When I go to youSC and click on financial aid it takes me to the USC website and when I click on financial aid supplement it takes me back to youSC. I'll leave it alone for now as I realize it's just me finding a new thing to obsess and stress about and that is wasted energy I could redirect to get this script done (started!) that I am supposed to be most of the way through at this point but can't stop stop watching this Love Is Blind on Netflix and procrastinating.

 

[princessjasmine]

OK yeah that's all I did, too, but noticed people upthread talking about the financial aid supplement. When I go to youSC and click on financial aid it takes me to the USC website and when I click on financial aid supplement it takes me back to youSC. I'll leave it alone for now as I realize it's just me finding a new thing to obsess and stress about and that is wasted energy I could redirect to get this script done (started!) that I am supposed to be most of the way through at this point but can't stop stop watching this Love Is Blind on Netflix and procrastinating.

dont worry about the supplement, you only get that when your FAFSA processes I believe. And same, I’m burning through all my streaming queues lol. I might have to invest in Disney plus at this point.

 

[KatieeveD]

I swear this is all I can think about, whatever happens I just hope I know soon

 

[TheCasualReader]

I swear this is all I can think about, whatever happens I just hope I know soon

Same. I was hoping this weekend would bring sweet release one way or another but all it brought was an intense need to check the portal and forum even more frequently than before.

 

[TheCasualReader]

Well the weekend turned out to be a bit of a bust. My body woke me up, unprompted, at 3:10 am and the first thing I thought was to check the portal, which is unchanged.

I keep reading through older forums trying to gather a sense of the admissions timeline but the only thing I've learned is that I have got to be patient, which is difficult. People started finding out on 02/24 of last year and, apparently, that was the last Sunday in February, so maybe we have a full week left?

I imagine I look like this to anyone whose spoken to me in the past week:

 

[Write2Eat]

This is me right now

 

[Jalenyj]

So far, everyday this week I find myself back here, despite knowing the first round of acceptances will likely be sent out this weekend. The weekend really can't come fast enough.

 

[TheCasualReader]

Same.

 

[KatieeveD]

 

[Chris W]

When they do start coming this site is gonna be like...

 

[Chris W]

Always welcome to check out and respond the fun threads in the lounge while you're wating.

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[KatieeveD]

Anyone else desperately counting the hours until the weekend in the hopes that they'll be coming out?

 

[addik]

Hey guys, just dropping by from the Production thread wishing you guys good luck! I'd sometimes check the thread when this goes on top because I'd be curious to see if they put out letters to the screenwriting program (which would mean the results for production would come out too?). Anyway, yeah, good luck everyone and I hope we hear from the schools the soonest!