UCLA 2009

[saintelmosfire71]

Originally posted by ambiguous:
not a peep....but i did get an email notifying me of the upcoming deadline for Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis....I've been getting them for the last few months....and have no idea how or why.

lol, one more question to the accepted ones, did your status changed in the UCLA grad school admission website? (decision status link) just curious if they ever update that thing.

 

[magicmyk]

they send an email that tells you a decision has been made on you application and then give you the link to the decision status site. Once there, you'll either see an acceptance letter with information about completing your intent to register, and setting up your email account and everything, or it'll be a rejection letter.

 

[smell_the_glove]

Is that for this year or last year?

 

[magicmyk]

This year (but probably every year)

 

[saintelmosfire71]

that's actually what the UCLA website says, but for screenwriting folks like KayS & Starbuck7, they got an email from Maureen johnson. Just curious if they checked their decision status page and it shows their acceptance.

 

[magicmyk]

Well I'm Producer Program, but I got an email like two weeks ago saying I was in and to sit tight while they finished making decisions and expect the official letter from the Graduate Division (which i got today) with the intent to register and all that. So like the first one was "unofficial."

 

[notroberttowne]

I'm not sure that the screenwriting program is using that website. When I check my status, it tells me that no decision has been made, which I expect. When I check on my application, though, it tells me that none of my recommendations, transcripts, or anything else have been received.

I would be curious to know if the accepted folks have actually seen that reflected on the decision page, but I know that the application status page, at least, is meaningless.

 

[ambiguous]

i wonder if it's safe to say that if we haven't gotten anything yet, we might as well accept the worst....

 

[magicmyk]

I don't know if that's entirely true, ambiguous. The erratic way people have been receiving their notices seem to have no rhyme or reason. Some heard weeks ago, other just heard today. Don't assume anything until you get an official word.

 

[saintelmosfire71]

same here notroberttowne, I actually called them last December just to check if they really had my application, because I used a return receipt when I mailed in my application, but nothing came back...congrats magicmyk btw, and im with u ambiguous, I actually found an old UCLA creative directory from 2007 when I attended the TFT festival @ the writer's guild office. And our very own Maureen won in a screenwriting contest there.

I remember sitting in the audience listening to a reading of her script. I noticed that majority of the MFA students were female, and had impressive undergrad backgrounds. I suddenly felt humbled by my qualifications and I'll understand if I get rejected, lol. If I get offered the PP, I'll definitely attend..

 

[ambiguous]

yeah, I thought about the PP, but I really want to get an MFA so I can teach later on. I enjoy screenwriting and it certainly is a passion of mine, but so is teaching. To be able to instill the passion that I have for the creative process, as well as telling a good, captivating story, would be a dream come true. I wanted to couple my two passions together and make the most of it, so if I don't get in, I'm not sure what road I'm going to go down then.

 

[Coop]

For you Producers out there -
I just called today and they said the Producers Program hadn't sent emails out yet and that that's what would be happening first. - eh?

 

[notroberttowne]

Dear UCLA,

wtf, mate?

love,

applicant

 

[WillieGreen]

I feel like Sergeant Schultz.

"I see nothing! I know nothing!"

 

[WillieGreen]

 

[notroberttowne]

I'm guessing that no one else heard anything today either? Indiana, your sources are incorrect.

(you cheat dr. bones!)

 

[WillieGreen]

I've got an idea for a new movie:

The Taking of Melnitz 123

 

[notroberttowne]

I wonder if a script of that included as your creative writing sample would, all things being equal, help your chances or utterly destroy them. Maybe if you made a faculty member the hero...

 

[WillieGreen]

I wouldn't have the stones to submit something like that.

I'd make it a water gun fight or something.

 

[notroberttowne]

c'mon... Alan Rickman leads a band of shady mercenaries into Melnitz with a plot to force the faculty to admit a class of terrorists. The terrorist students will write antiamerican films (more antiamerican?) that will weaken america's resolve to combat whoever the hell alan rickman represents.

Then Paul Castro goes all Frankie Muniz on 'em, and Linda Vorhees gets her massive rambo-esque machine gun from under her desk (which she totally has there). "This is one professor who's going out the front door!" Think that Lee Major's christmas special from the beginning of Scrooged.

That would definitely get... um... some kind of reaction from the faculty.