UCLA 2010

[bornfromcelluloid]

So I just read this from last year's UCLA BA thread:

Originally posted by airborne911:

Over the last couple of years, they've notified undergrad applicants they plan to interview via email around April 3 or 4 for April 10 or 11 interviews, or around April 10 or 11 for April 17 or 18 interviews (basically, notifications have started the first week in April, and interviews have been held the week after notification).

Why have I thought it'd be March all this time? Looks like a possible two more weeks of waiting ahead...

 

[Asmerza]

Hey everyone, I know that the end is nigh and we all just want to find out yes or No but not really because its either a no or a Yes for an interview than a yes or another no. check this out looking at one of the films programs older stats and turns out some one made it all the way to the end and decided UCLA wasnt the right place for him/her. Seat was left empty. Don't be that person, lol you gotta have a lot of balls or a better offer to be that person. lol anyways peace love happiness to all. I don't know what else to talk about lately because of all this tension with all these apps and this interviews.

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the days are cold and the sun, what sun? hasn't existed since last october. theres a strange and unforgiving feeling that all the tension and stress will never stop, but one morning a glimmer a sparkle a letter UC......L.............A, as i opened it the sensations were simliar to feeling of being born, the color in my face, bronze and the breath of real fresh air. among all the chaos a glimmer, small but there as i read the letter form ucla.

Dear Mr Merza

Interview Notifications are going out soon...............


lol Just having some fun, lol sometime we just need to relax and realize that its all going to be alright.

 

[Cptn. Amurikuh]

christah, do you have the link for that thread? I need something to sink my paranoia into.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Haha, I hear ya. Here it is:

http://www.studentfilms.com/ev...?r=46310627#46310627

 

[EricaLauren]

christah, did you happen to ask if they are for sure sending out notifications via email or phone??

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

I didn't ask but either sounds like a safe bet. She was in a rush and I'm sure wanted to get me off the phone quick lol. The only other thing she said was that final decisions would be out by May 1st

 

[EricaLauren]

funny how their forum was only 3 pages long.... and we are on 14. and by reading that, it looks like all of their notifications were sent out by March 30th-

Posted March 30, 2009 11:51 AM Hide Post
I just got off the phone with TFT undergrad admissions. It's over. All interview notifications have gone out. Good luck blsdmf. I'm off to Long Beach, the number one choice for those rejected by their number one choice.

We might as well start a Long Beach thread so we can start obsessing over the Production Option interviews.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Hahahahahahahaha, that post killssss meee. Sure, let's start it up. Well, I heard there was a surge of Grad student applications this year so I'm assuming that sent them a little further back this year. It's April in a few hours, bright side: we HAVE to hear something back this month

 

[EricaLauren]

does anybody else check this every half hour to see if anyone got a notification?? this is starting to get ridiculous.

 

[Oquendo]

Man this board is getting psychotic, lol. To be honest, I make sure to check my email up to only FIVE times a day. Anymore than that and I'd be going crazy as some of you might be feeling.

For those freaking out, I recommend to be always "doing something else" at this point; it'll relieve stress, trust me. Besides homework, I went to Disneyland several days ago. I hung out with a friend ALL day on Tuesday. I saw Shutter Island again, lol. And I just saw Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer yesterday. Even though Mr. Polanski is not a very nice person, this man definitely knows how to make a damn good movie!

Anyways, I thought I'd interject before everyone loses their sanity around here...

For those who applied to UCSB, is there a way to find out your financial aid status w/o submitting the SIR? I have to admit, $$$ will be a factor in the school I choose and I don't want to blow 100 bucks if I still don't know where to go. I heard UCSB is being more generous in their aid than UCSD.

Speaking of UCSD, Anyone else get the BIG, lol, envelope from UCSD? Although it won't seem likely I will be going there, I have to say it's a pretty nice school - maybe in another life.

 

[vivaitalia]

Yeah, I got the (in)famous envelope for UCSD yesterday. It really is a pretty nice school. Which of the colleges did you apply to- I applied to Sixth College. Were you a visual arts major for UCSD?

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by vivaitalia:
Yeah, I got the (in)famous envelope for UCSD yesterday. It really is a pretty nice school. Which of the colleges did you apply to- I applied to Sixth College. Were you a visual arts major for UCSD?

Yeah. Sixth College. Visual Arts - Media

I didn't really like the campus atmosphere; though the campus is on the beach which is really cool; and some of the stereotypes were true. A friend tells me UCSD kids are bigger jerks because they are pissed that they didn't get into UCLA or Berkeley. I don't know just got a uncomfortably quiet vibe from that school. Not to mention in our tour, these two jerks were making fun of the mentally challenged and promoting UCSD to our group....which I didn't really get the connection?

I also don't like their weird curriculum modeled after Oxford. Due to budget cuts, we'd probably spend an extra year doing other GE classes because of that weird style. The tour guide told us that each school has pretty much the same set of classes to take, just slightly altered.

I am going to Santa Barbara on April 22nd, scarily enough I will most likely know if UCLA accepts or rejects me by that point.

My friend is just in love with that school. But I just don't like the word "studies" combined with "film." I am a very hands-on person and I love studying movies, but I don't want to have to be graded for a dissertation/paper. When I go there, I'll investigate their supposedly NEW building.

You applied to SB, right? I also applied to Berkeley(CAL! - woot woot!) which has even fewer production courses, lol.

Speaking of Long Beach, my application is still pending - wtf? It's a CSU. They really need to change that automated phone system they got. Anybody else get accepted to the university?

 

[vivaitalia]

Yeah. I'm the same way with Film Studies majors- it seems like I could study film at just about any school and get a good education as long as it had passionate instructors. And while it is important to be a well-versed student of film inside the industry, I would much rather focus my time on honing my skills and developing them for hands-on use. Very few colleges offer that opportunity for undergrad though, so perhaps graduate school keeps looking better and better as I begin to think about it.

 

[Oquendo]

it seems like I could study film at just about any school and get a good education as long as it had passionate instructors.

I study film for FUN, lol. But I do prefer not to be graded on it.

 

[ok2play]

It's April 5th...still no word...

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by ok2play:
It's April 5th...still no word...

Well hypothetically we should get word at least before April 16th because that is when they start reviewing in-school transfers; therefore, I assume they would want get the notifications before then.

Since UCLA/CAL release decision around May 1st, I assume we find out everything: notifications, interviews, acceptance(s): by the last week of April or first week of May.

Don't worry guys, we are really close

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

I feel like we'll have to hear back by the end of this week if they're going to have decisions out by May 1st. That would mean they'd be holding interviews starting next week because they have to give us at least a weeks notification... right? I was told over the phone in the summer that I'd get a max two weeks notification as an out-of-stater. It's starting to petrify me because I've never been on a plane or to California. So if I woke up one morning and heard that both things were going to happen in a week it would be really surreal.

 

[EricaLauren]

i wish theyd just tell us so if i get rejected i can put in my intent somewhere already and have some peace of mind... this waiting is seriously stressing me out, i just want to know.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Agreed. It'd be nice to know what life has in store for us. I've been walking around completely blind to my future for a year now. It's time to know. Shouldn't be much longer... my guess is that interviews will be out by Friday.

 

[Cptn. Amurikuh]

LOL Oquendo, I was just sleuthing around the CC website, that sites kind of a mess though, I was checking out the ucsb transfer page and like seventh page in, I finally see someone accepted for film/media studies and they said it was their 4th or 5th choice, then I just glance at the name and it was You!

The Internet is a trip.