Acceptances 2009

[Coop]

Congrats Cabezon! Is that where you're going?
I got a rejection from UCLA today but still haven't heard from Chapman. I hope it's soon since you just heard.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Production/Directing:

FSU: Interview, Accepted
Boston U: No interview, Accepted
American U: No interview, Accepted
Columbia University: Didn't do Interview
Columbia College: No word (Rejected?)

Screenwriting:

UT-Austin: No interview, Accepted

Have a few days to decide, pretty sure I'm going to UT though, decided kind of last minute to pursue the screenwriting track.

Undergrad: MA in Visual Media (focus on Film and Media Arts) from American University

GPA: 3.43 (3.68 in major)
GREs: 1410
Quantitative -730
Qualitative -680
Writing -5.5

Letters of Recommendation:
Professor from Film Production II course, Professor from Writing for Visual Media, Professor from Advanced Screenwriting

Sample: Feature screenplay (first act)

 

[cabezon]

Hey Coop! Yeah, I'm going to Chapman. I liked it there and that's where I'll be. What about you? Heard anything from Chapman yet?

 

[cschu011]

anyone else going to NCSA for fall 09?

 

[cschu011]

well I guess I should also post the school I applied to as well.

USC - Accepted
NCSA - Accepted

GPA - 2.9

SAT - 1600


Im going to NCSA. I like the film production program better, and the connections they have are just as solid as the west coast schools.

 

[Schmanna17]

MFA Production Design Programs:

NYU- interviewed, rejected
Chapman- no interview, accepted!

Undergrad GPA: 3.7
GRE: N/A

 

[Maijodojo]

I'd love for more people to reply to this once they get their decisions. I can say from someone who will be applying to film school that this thread is extremely useful.

 

[Manalive]

Applied to: USC Screenwriting, UCLA Screenwriting, Chapman Screenwriting, LMU Screenwriting
Accepted by: Chapman
Rejected by: UCLA and UCLA
Haven't heard back from: LMU
GPA: 3.54, History major.
GRE: 1310 - I did terrible on the math portion!
Recommendations: history professor, English professor, longtime drama instructor

 

[Maijodojo]

Congrats on getting into Chapman Manalive!

 

[Manalive]

Originally posted by Maijodojo:
Congrats on getting into Chapman Manalive!

Hey, thanks! It was a pleasant surprise.

 

[Fox]

oaky, here is my post. I never thought I could be accepted by a film school in the US. I'm so surprised that I got into many. If I know so, I would have applied less. it seems all the other schools are safe bet compared with Chapman....

Film Prodcution:
RIT-Accepted, $12,000 fellowship
Chapman-Accepted
UT Austin-Accepted
CalArts-Rejected (this is probably the only school reject me...)
American University-Accepted, scholarship+stipend
SMU-Accepted-almost free ride (they jusy want me in after I got into Chapman University)

Television, Film and Radio, M.A
Syracuse U (Newhouse)-Accepted, $10,000 fellowship

School info
Graduating this summer from Beijing.
Studying digital media arts.
No GPA(different grading here)
GRE only okay, iBT pretty good

 

[Norsewriter]

I applied to the following for screenwriting:

UCLA -- no interview, rejected
USC -- no interview, rejected
Northwestern -- no interview, pending (likely rejected)
FSU -- interview, accepted
Boston -- no interview, waitlist
Edinburgh Napier -- pending
CSSD -- interview, pending

GPA: 4.0

Undergrad: BFA Playwriting from NKU, honors minor. Graduated summa cum laude.

GRE: 530 Verbal, 560 Quant., 4.5 Analytical Writing

References: Three from mentors/professors, one of whom used to work in the film industry and another who is an emmy nominated tv writer/award-winning playwright.

Background: I've spent the last 4 years working in various positions on theatre productions and writing.

 

[Ira Parker]

I only applied to Chapman for MFA Screenwriting and I was accepted.

GPA: 2.71 (proof that grades matter less than the writing samples)

Undergrad:
University of Toronto Bachelor of Commerce
(Double Major: Finance and Economics)
#1 Business School in Canada
#18 in world by Newsweek.

Background:
Attended the LA Film School after undergrad for a year (great school by the way for cine and editing). Then I interned at a production company for six months, now Chapman in September.

Recommendations:
1 from a professor
1 from a producer
1 from an employer

 

[Astantax]

Accepted by:
USC Production Fall '09!

Rejected by:
UCLA
Chapman
FSU (probably, haven't heard back from them yet)

Undergrad Info
School: Penn State
GPA: 3.1 (3.8 within major)
Major: English
Jealousy of film majors: high

GRE Score
Total: 1210
Verbal: 590
Quant: 620
(Proof that the GRE is meaningless: I am an english major and I often resort to counting on my fingers)
Analytical Writing: 6.0



Recommendations
2 from employers, one of whom is a senior counsel/VP of a global pharma corp.
1 from a professor

Level of shock over having been accepted at all: Extreme (just kidding...sort of!)

 

[Coop]

hey Cab
I got into Chapman and AFI. (Producing)
I pretty much have to make a decision today or tomorrow and I'm thinking I'll be headed to AFI.

Anyone have an opinion on that or advice about one or the other?

 

[Michael Tom]

Hey everyone - I just got accepted at Temple this morning! Is anyone else going, or have any info on the program? I'm not totally sure if I'll be going or not (but it's likely).

As for me, here's my application info:

B.A. in Cinema Studies, UPenn, 2008; GPA 3.54, GRE 1350 (650 Verbal, 700 Math). Three recommendations - one from a experimental/conceptual writing/art professor, one from an English professor/current job supervisor, one from a Cinema Studies professor.

After graduating, I've been working at UPenn, doing audio/video editing for an online poetry recording archive.

UT Austin: Rejected
CalArts: Rejected
Temple: Waitlist, accepted

 

[jouster]

Production
USC - Fall waitlist/spring admit
UCLA - rejected

Undergrad
School: CWRU'09
GPA: 3.3
Degrees: BSE Biomedical Engineering, BA Economics

GRE Score
Total: 1400

I think...
Verb: 650
Quan: 750
Analytical Writing: 4.0


Recommendations:
2 from supervisors during an internship I had with the Dept of State in Beijing... during the olympics... essentially a paid vacation
1 from a professor/advisor


I can't believe I will be moving to LA... all my friends call me crazy for "wasting" my degrees for film, but it's what I love
opportunity cost: 60k job
dreams realized: priceless

 

[MikeSter4]

Jouster, that's great - my friends are the same way. Until you invite them on sets, they will never understand. This business is crazy, but it certainly has its perks.


Producing
Chapman - Accepted (didn't really want to go anywhere else)

Undergrad
University of Utah
Film Major, Business Minor
GPA: 3.37

Recommendations:
Mine are all over the board from Sundance Film Festival, VP at Mattel Toy company and another from an international commercial and infomercial company.

Been working in the entertainment industry for five years now - don't really know why I'm going back to school. Guess because the world has slowed down lately and I want to obtain more contacts. You've heard it before, but really that's what this business is all about.

 

[Nervousaurus Rex]

I went for screenwriting and applied to Columbia, NYU, UCLA, USC, AFI, and LMU. Didn't get any interviews, got rejected from them all, except LMU, which I just got an acceptance from.

GPA:
3.2 or something along those lines.

GRE:
1100

Rec's:
A screenwriting teacher, my supervisor at work, and my editor (I do online reviews for TV and movies).

Background:
Got my BA in English (minored in Film Studies) from Boston College in 2004. Worked a couple production-related internships, then temp jobs in the financial industry, then I landed a full-time job, where I've been for the past two years.

 

[Luke joseph]

Not that your post even warrants a response, Movied, but I don't know whats more pathetic; your absurd close-minded bigotry, or the fact that you took time out of your day to write the same word 24 times. Really quite sad.