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USC School of Cinematic Arts

USC School of Cinematic Arts

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Hollywood Trash
Reviewed by: Current Student
Pros
  • Free lunch if you don't pay at Galen Center
Cons
  • They pick literally anyone, students who have no idea what filmmaking is (not talking about experience but at least passion and basic understanding of filmmaking)
  • Terrible taste (Hollywood trash, as I stated. They would all die for Marvel because- KeviN FeiGe iS aN AlUmNi)
  • Expensive (Tuition + living cost in LA for 3 years, plus production cost etc would likely cost you a literal kidney)
  • USC owns YOUR film that YOU pay on your own
  • Most students can't accept criticism and can't give criticism
  • They rely on sappy stories to make film, without actually having merit
  • Useless first year
  • Useless faculty
  • Terrible equipment with low production value
  • Not actual industry network as they market, most of the time it's just B-list directors who happen to be friends with the faculty
Overall, this school is what 'quantity over quality' means.

The network they brag about is absolutely not as they market. The filmmakers who come mostly make low-rated films that happen to need a boost of marketing. Occasionally they are good, don't get me wrong, but it's just gonna be once every semester so I wouldn't call that good network.

I would give it 0 star but this website won't let me.

Oh and the SCA building is a horrific building, an insult to any architect in the world. At least $75 million endowment from alumni and organizations are distributed to the construction of this awful building instead of I don't know, scholarship? Emergency fund? Lower tuition?
Affordability
1.00 star(s)
Alumni Network
2.00 star(s)
Campus
2.00 star(s)
Career Assistance
1.00 star(s)
Coursework
1.00 star(s)
Facilities & Equipment
2.00 star(s)
Professors
1.00 star(s)
Scholarships
1.00 star(s)
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