2018 Accepted for USC MFA Screenwriting

[DamienA]

Hi guys. I'm in the same boat. I'm worried about $$$ as well. I just want to know when they start offering out scholarships, or have they done that already?

 

[Riki Tiki Tavi]

Grew up in Jersey! But my family has a cabin in the Catskills in Cobleskill so I know upstate New York well

Re: financial stuff. When I went to SC so so so many of my friends worked around campus. I will say SC has amazing opportunities for work-study.

ah, i love the catskills. great horse back riding there, it’s just perfect for a scenic ride. only thing that compared was the sierra nevada.

anyway, that’s great news! i’m more than happy to earn my keep. hopefully they do graduate work study as well?

damien, we’re not sure! though it looks like michael got an email saying it’d be around late march/early april. admissions told me something similar, so that’s the one i’m going with.

 

[Septopus7]

Hey cool kids, not to interject, but can I make a request? When you receive info on scholarship stuff (be it in April or in September), would at least one of you share the info here? I feel like every year one of these threads is created for people who are accepted, but abandoned a few weeks in before anyone actually reports back how they did, scholarship wise. Case in point:

USC Students Fall 2017

I guess a Facebook group of the acceptees is created, and all the conversation is shifted there. Which is fine, but it does leave the rest of us hanging in terms of concrete scholarship info. Which is why pretty much none of that is available at any point in anytime. Everyone posts about WANTING to know the aid information, but no one actually follows up when they get it. Could you guys be the first? It would help hopeful applicants a bunch, I think.

I'm especially curious about the George Lucas scholarship, as it's one of the main reasons USC is my top school to begin with. From a pool of $10 million I have to imagine the award is somewhat substantial, but is it $2000 substantial or $20,000 substantial? I haven't been able to find ANY information on how much is given anywhere on the internet (even a ballpark estimate!), so if any one of you gets it, one simple report with a dollar sign (or even % of tuition!) would help a great deal, re: expectations of how much money I will be losing if I ever get it.

 

[PaulP]

That's my big worry too.

Does anybody know if international students should fill out the FAFSA? I keep getting emails telling me to.

I think you can only start a FASFA with an American Social Secutiy Number, which you can only get as a foreign student, if you are permitted to campus work by the university. At least thats what the internet tells me. So.... Wait and see?

Also, I tried to activate myUSC account, but it didn't work. Said, my user name was no good... Any of you also had this issue?

 

[Michel Lichand]

I think you can only start a FASFA with an American Social Secutiy Number, which you can only get as a foreign student, if you are permitted to campus work by the university. At least thats what the internet tells me. So.... Wait and see?

Also, I tried to activate myUSC account, but it didn't work. Said, my user name was no good... Any of you also had this issue?

What if I already have a SSN from a previous work experience in the US? It was a J-1 visa.

 

[spicystanislaus]

on an unrelated note...which neighborhoods are people looking at to move to? :~)

 

[Riki Tiki Tavi]

on an unrelated note...which neighborhoods are people looking at to move to? :~)

hollywood hills, obviously.

kidding! i applied for graduate housing, but i’m planning on sticking around, and i think i’d like to move into weho. that’s the premier gayborhood, and it’s a stone’s throw away from hollywood proper.

 

[Avec Love]

Anybody have any good details in terms of paying for films? I know SCA has suggested budgets for each film on their course map but I'm not sure if that's a bare minimum or what.

 

[EF1]

Hi!

Accepted to USC Screenwriting and wanted to say hello.
I'm currently living in Hollywood, but plan to move closer to campus.
If anyone is in the area and would like to get together for coffee or whatnot, I'd be glad to meet some of the cohort!

 

[Lindsey Robertson]

Hi all! Sorry, I'm super late to this bc I've been stressing about money also. But, glad we all have a place to stress together!

I'm currently living in Los Feliz, and my boyfriend is in the Stark producing program — he hasn't found commuting from our location to be too difficult this year, for what it's worth!

 

[snoopdog]

Hi!

Accepted to USC Screenwriting and wanted to say hello.
I'm currently living in Hollywood, but plan to move closer to campus.
If anyone is in the area and would like to get together for coffee or whatnot, I'd be glad to meet some of the cohort!

HI! Congrats on getting accepted, when did you get notified? (I'm still waiting, pretty sure that means a rejection but just curious if there is still hope, ha ha)

 

[Michel Lichand]

So I finally sent my financial documents, and despite a plethora of e-mails making me think I was already accepted, as soon as I sent them in my academic eligibility message disappeared.

Maybe I'm just being paranoid and should wait a little? Yeah. Definitely. Maybe. Hopefully.

 

[flamesonthesidemyface]

hollywood hills, obviously.

kidding! i applied for graduate housing, but i’m planning on sticking around, and i think i’d like to move into weho. that’s the premier gayborhood, and it’s a stone’s throw away from hollywood proper.

I live in WeHo and honestly it’s the best. It takes me 30 minutes tops to get to downtown and 30 minutes to get to Santa Monica, etc. Comes in handy if you have an internship on the west side since that commute between SC and anything west of Mid City can be BRUTAL.

 

[flamesonthesidemyface]

Hi!

Accepted to USC Screenwriting and wanted to say hello.
I'm currently living in Hollywood, but plan to move closer to campus.
If anyone is in the area and would like to get together for coffee or whatnot, I'd be glad to meet some of the cohort!

Hey! Would love to meet up at some point. I unfortunately can’t go to the admitted students event in April so it’d be great to get to know some people before classes start in August.

 

[Chris W]

I live in WeHo and honestly it’s the best. It takes me 30 minutes tops to get to downtown and 30 minutes to get to Santa Monica, etc. Comes in handy if you have an internship on the west side since that commute between SC and anything west of Mid City can be BRUTAL.

Just want to say that I love your username and avatar. I need to see that movie again.

"I'm not shouting!"

 

[Riki Tiki Tavi]

I live in WeHo and honestly it’s the best. It takes me 30 minutes tops to get to downtown and 30 minutes to get to Santa Monica, etc. Comes in handy if you have an internship on the west side since that commute between SC and anything west of Mid City can be BRUTAL.

oh, that’s just what i wanted to hear! the location was very attractive to me.

i’d also love to meet up with you guys! i’m not sure if i can make it to admitted student’s event either, the cost of flying there and back alone gives me a lot of pause, but i was hoping to move in early to meet up with my fellow classmates!

 

[flamesonthesidemyface]

Just want to say that I love your username and avatar. I need to see that movie again.

"I'm not shouting!"

It’s my favorite movie! I’m glad to meet a fellow Clue fan

 

[flamesonthesidemyface]

oh, that’s just what i wanted to hear! the location was very attractive to me.

i’d also love to meet up with you guys! i’m not sure if i can make it to admitted student’s event either, the cost of flying there and back alone gives me a lot of pause, but i was hoping to move in early to meet up with my fellow classmates!

Yes! Let us know when you move out here. I know they strongly suggest to attend that event but honestly it’s not feasible for most of us. But I’ll be around all summer before classes start! Do we want to make a Facebook group for admitted students?

 

[spicystanislaus]

Yes! Let us know when you move out here. I know they strongly suggest to attend that event but honestly it’s not feasible for most of us. But I’ll be around all summer before classes start! Do we want to make a Facebook group for admitted students?

yes fb group please!! i can't make it to admitted students day either. currently in PA

 

[Michel Lichand]

I'd love a group too, even though I'm starting to think the academic eligibility notification wasn't the same as getting admitted despite all the signs.