UCLA 2010

[bornfromcelluloid]

People wake up! Who applied? I turned in my application yesterday. Let's talk

 

[Oquendo]

I turned it in on the 19th. Do you know if they supposed to send us a confirmation receipt?

These next few months are going to be so nerve wrecking! First we have to get offered an interview, then we have to ace it!

I'm transferring from a local community college in LA, what school you transferring from?

Good luck

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Yay! I called the day it was due, the 29th, and they said they were still processing apps... they told me they'd email us if any parts are missing.

I'm applying from out-of-state, I'm currently in upstate New York enjoying massive snowfall and gusting winds.

Is it the end of March we'll be hearing if we get an interview or not? I'm going to go completely insane until I hear something back

What'd you turn in for your creative writing?

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Good luck to you too!

 

[Oquendo]

Thanks!

>Is it the end of March we'll be hearing if we get an interview or not? I'm going to go completely insane until I hear something back

I have no idea. I've heard end of March, but possibly as late as mid-April.

>What'd you turn in for your creative writing?

I turned in an 'excerpt' from one of my scripts. I attached some photos to the sides for some "visual" effect since we can't send DVD's, unfortunately. That five-page limit is insane!

How about you?

For the critical analysis essay, I did it on "Taxi Driver."

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

That long wait to hear about in interview is going to be pretty deathly.

I also used an excerpt from a script, the five page limit is insane! I was having a harder time keeping the personal and critical down in page length though

I did my critical on "Daughters of the Dust"

I've been worrying about this application for sooo long. I can't believe how long this process is. Did you apply to any other schools?

 

[Oquendo]

>I was having a harder time keeping the personal and critical down in page length though

Lol, me too. I ended up "tweaking" the margins a little. It said 12pt font, but it didn't say "one-inch margins"

>Did you apply to any other schools?

Yeah. I'm a California guy so I went crazy, lol; I applied to 8 schools in CA.

UC Los Angeles
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
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Cal State Los Angeles - Accepted
Cal State San Francisco - Accepted
Cal State Long Beach
Cal State San Diego

My top school is UCLA, but Long Beach and San Diego is quite nice and cheap.

As for out-of-state, I'm considering NYU(are you, btw?), Northwestern, and Boston University.

I'm surprised there's no one else posting here.

 

[Neville26]

I think UCLA interviews start getting notified late Feb/early March. Then through March they decide and you hear late march/early April. I think. Based on last year that's what happened.

 

[Oquendo]

Based on last year that's what happened.

How was the interview process? Did you get accepted?

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Eight! That's so much work, good job! I only applied to UCLA.. if it doesn't work out then I'm going to finish out my current school and see what's up when I'm done. I want to make sure if I'm flying across the country for school I'm going to love the program I'm in and UCLA just fits what I'm looking for.

I'm surprised no one else who applied is posting here too, in the older forums people went nuts over the UCLA undergrad. It seems like generally the only people alive on this forum are grad students


That timeline sounds sounds soooo much nicer for the interview! The application scares me.. it says something about not hearing a final decision until July


Oquendo- are you working on applying for scholarships?

 

[Neville26]

Oquendo, I didn't get an interview. Got rejected. This is based on friends who did get an interview and one friend of mine (from my home in MI) who got in.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Did you hear that you didn't get in around the same time as your friends who got the interview?

 

[Neville26]

Not really...it was a few weeks after I heard about them getting interviews. It was on March 20, 2009 (Friday night at 11 PM--good timing, right?) that they sent me the e-mail that said a decision has been made. It was cold and heartless. lol Here's what it said:

Dear Applicant:

A decision has been made on your application for Film and Television for
Fall 2009.

If you have not already done so, please log in at the following link to
check your decision status:

https://www.gradadmissions.ucla.edu/newapp/ and select Decision Status at
the bottom of the page

If you have any questions about the decision, please contact your
department directly at:

Film and Television
103E East Melnitz
Box 951622
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622
info@tft.ucla.edu
(310) 206-8441

 

[Oquendo]

Oquendo- are you working on applying for scholarships?

Yeah, but I'm not sure if they will transfer to my college of FALL 2010. I did do my FAFSA, though, as well as the scholarships offered on the UC application.

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by Neville26:
Not really...it was a few weeks after I heard about them getting interviews. It was on March 20, 2009 (Friday night at 11 PM--good timing, right?) that they sent me the e-mail that said a decision has been made.

You applied Graduate or Undergrad?

 

[Neville26]

Graduate MFA in Screenwriting.

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by Neville26:
Graduate MFA in Screenwriting.

I guess the undergraduates must be later since I've never heard of undergraduate TFT getting called as early as late February. After searching pages upon pages of UCLA TFT, the undergraduate calling has to be during mid-March - April.

Are you going to the Pasadena School of Art and Design?

 

[Oquendo]

Hey Christah,

Did you by any chance get a UCLA ID# for admission login? I didn't get one, but wasn't sure if they even sent one out to applicants.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Neville26- That email is cruel. I hope March 20th isn't ruined for you forever

Oquendo- I got an application ID number... but that's it. I hope we'll be getting some kind of conformation soon, that would be nice. Have you ever gotten a tour of the school? I hear a lot of nice things about California, I'm itching to leave the east coast

 

[Neville26]

Haha, thanks for your empathy Christah. I think the most depressing thing about it was I read it at midnight on a Friday (just an hour after it was sent). "Call UCLA if you have questions." Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen. But oh well. I'm a big boy. I'm over it now and stronger this year to take on apps because of it. Here we go...