Columbia 2013 Applicants (3 Viewers)

[Sara Suri]

Hey Sudarshan,

Yup, they haven't been announced yet. Im aiming at sending in my app by let's say 1st march or so?
Im sure they'd come out with the dates asap.

Also, are you applying to the National Film and Television School (UK)?
What are the places that you have applied to/going to apply to?

 

[Virat]

Hi Sudarshan & Sara,

Nice to meet fellow applicants from India! Best of luck for your applications!

 

[sudarshansuresh]

As a matter of fact I am! I'm applying to both NFTS and LFS.

So far I've sent in applications to Columbia, USC and Tisch. Will be submitting my CalArts application by the end of the month hopefully. Then breathe for a little while before I start again on the UK and FAMU apps.

Nice to meet you too Virat. Where all have you applied, if I may ask? Really liked the short that you posted on this forum btw. Did you send that in as your visual submission?

 

[Virat]

Hi Sudarshan,

I've applied to Columbia, NYU Tisch, USC, UCLA and AFI. But I'm focusing on the screenwriting program with the only exception being for NYU where I've applied for the MFA Film Program.

Thanks a lot for watching the Short Film, I'm glad you liked it. It was my first ever attempt, so it has quite a few amateur glitches in it, but thanks! And You're right I've sent that as the visual submission. Not very sure if that was the best reel to send!

 

[Sara Suri]

Hey Sudarshan!

So I guess we have applied to the same places and are planning to apply to the same!
good luck for all of them!

 

[Robin101]

Hello Everybody,

Anyone willing to talk about what they did for the film scenario? I choose the scene in the store parking lot. I probably started about five different scenarios, but ultimately ended up with a scene between the young woman and her 'party girl' roommate trying to convince her to ditch work and come out.

Anyone do something drastically different? If I was reviewing applications, I think this would be the most interesting to read over. You know, see what different minds came up with.

 

[sudarshansuresh]

Hey Robin. That sounds interesting. I chose the yoga studio scenario. I'm just as curious to see how different people dealt with these scenarios. If you'd like to exchange pieces just drop me a private message. I'll be happy to!

 

[wannabe13]

Any updates here? Do you guys know when interviews go out?

 

[Stevie]

Notifications for interviews usually begin in the first or second week of February. Calls for interviews usually conclude by the end of February or the first week in March. Acceptance calls are made from the end of March until mid April. Rejection letters go out in April.

 

[wannabe13]

Cool, thanks. Do you know how many people apply? I'm applying for Scr/Dir...

 

[Sara Suri]

No idea about the number of people that apply :\

THIS IS SCARY NOW.

I've made sure i'm going to keep my self as busy as possible in Jan so that i don't hyperventilate like crazy.

 

[Stevie]

Originally posted by wannabe13:
Cool, thanks. Do you know how many people apply? I'm applying for Scr/Dir...

I pulled the following from Columbia's website:

"In 2012, we received approximately 602 applications for the Film MFA Program, and an average incoming class is around 48 students in the Screenwriting/Directing program and 24 students in the Creative Producing program."

I pasted the link below. This part of Columbia's page answers a lot of questions about the film program.

http://arts.columbia.edu/mfa-admissions-faq

 

[wannabe13]

Anybody get plays on their video submissions recently?

 

[avid spots]

Hello, my name is Dave and I am applying to the screenwriting and directing program at Columbia. I am currently working on my scenario component of the application and I was wondering if anybody could discuss how they formatted their 2-3 pages film scenario.

Did you include the prompt along with your script?

Can you change the wording if you wanted to add description to the characters?

I have chosen the second prompt about a black limousine pulling up to the young woman.

Thank you in advance.

 

[freakyfreddy]

I used Final Draft. The program automatically formats it as a screenplay. I did include the prompt and I changed the wording a little bit to add description to the characters.

Just FYI, they change the scenarios every year so I would wait until next fall before I work on it. All other creative materials stay the same.

Originally posted by avid spots:
Hello, my name is Dave and I am applying to the screenwriting and directing program at Columbia. I am currently working on my scenario component of the application and I was wondering if anybody could discuss how they formatted their 2-3 pages film scenario.

Did you include the prompt along with your script?

Can you change the wording if you wanted to add description to the characters?

I have chosen the second prompt about a black limousine pulling up to the young woman.

Thank you in advance.

 

[avid spots]

Yeah, that's what I've been told that they change the prompts every year, however I do remember reading the prompt in 2011 and the second scenario remained the same for the 2012 application.

But just to be safe, I'll work on the other parts of the application.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[s.aldani]

I think we're a few weeks away from finding out about interviews. I've been obsessively combing through last year's forum and it seems that Creative Producing applicants got invitations around the 7th of Feb and Directing/Screenwriting applicants found out around the 16th. The year before that they were sent out a week later.

Fingers crossed everyone.

S x

 

[rtessler]

glad to be in good company!

good luck to us!!

 

[pinsandneedles]

has anyone had any word from columbia yet?

 

[Stevie]

Nope. Emails for interviews will probably go out near the end of next week and continue through early March.