USC Fall 2009 (3 Viewers)

[redic]

STG, sounds like you've come to an epiphany. Can I have some of your kool-aid? that's the good stuff.

Seriously though, The most successful people in Hollywood have had the most and biggest rejections. And the quickest way to succeed and get over that learning curve is to realize failure and rejection are inevitable when you take risks. Even after getting into USC there will be bigger risks and even bigger possible failures. Thinking youre going to get a base hit every time you get up is unrealistic even though you should try to every time. And actually succeeding everytime and not facing failures and not taking risks is detrimental to ones character and growth as a person. Now of course there is the right way to respond to failures to allow for the best possible outcome. Crawling into a hole for three months not being one of them....

 

[kiernanbyrne]

Yeah,

Just keep writing, join writers groups, do some improv, attend seminars, intern at a studio...keep momentum going.

Also, holy guacamole! 800 posts!

 

[Neville26]

Dang it, Kiernan! I wanted to be number 800 post! lol

801. Okay. That'll do.

 

[tabbycat]

Is it weird that I've been following this thread even though I didn't apply here? I'm pulling for all you guys to get in!

 

[Neville26]

haha, that's cool. where'd you apply to tabby?

someone better not submit this thread as a creating writing sample for next year's USC application. you better not!!!! lol

 

[tabbycat]

AFI and Chapman, for editing..

I'm also kind of following the UCLA threads too.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

Thanks tabbycat!

Hey guys, we have groupies! Hahaha.

(pulls hair out)

 

[TDK120]

Sorry, folks, to create a panic. I do understand how fragile everyone's state of mind is because this is a huge deal for all of us.

Let me clarify what I was saying. No one, as far as we know, has received a rejection. A couple of people have been waitlisted, and their status is unchanged (it's still "forwarded to the department"). That makes sense. From the university's point of view, "waitlisted" isn't a final decision. Only acceptance or rejection is a change of status. And any screenwriter whose status has changed thus far has been accepted.

Let me put it another way. Here are the possibilities:

#1) The SCA accepts someone. They send out an acceptance letter (small envelope) to the applicant, and they also contact the graduate admissions office, who then changes the status to "postal mail" and sends out the big envelope to the applicant.

#2) The SCA waitlists someone. They send out a waitlist letter (small envelope), but they do NOT contact the graduate admissions office, because they have not made a final determination as to acceptance or rejection. The graduate admissions office doesn't change the online status because they don't care who's been waitlisted and they won't care until the waitlisted person is either accepted or rejected. THAT'S when they'll change that person's admissions status online because that's when their final admissions status has actually been determined.

#3) The SCA rejects someone. They send out a rejection letter (small envelope) to the applicant, and they also contact the graduate admissions office who changes the status to "postal mail" because their final admissions status has been determined.

So far as we know, #3 hasn't happened yet for anyone. But here's what to look for (in my theory -- and it IS a theory): If your status changes and virtually no one else's does, you're probably in. If you get an envelope without your status changing, you're probably waitlisted. If your status changes the same day everybody else's does... Well, you just have to wait for the letter. There's no way to predict.

Remember, you're not rejected until you're rejected. I was sure I'd been rejected when the first round of letters went out, and it turned out I was in the second round. We don't know who many rounds there will be, so hang in there.

 

[Maliz]

Well...
I wrote an email last week to the admissions department because I haven´t received a response from USC. They answered quickly and said that all the admissions decision were already made. That my decision is suppose to be arriving within a week or two.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

Does anyone have the tally of known admits and waitlisters for Writing (looks at smelltheglove)?

Just curious.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

Maliz,

Really? What department?

 

[Maliz]

Cinema. I applied to screenwriting.
But my status has not changed, so... I don´t know what to think.

 

[smell_the_glove]

I stopped counting a while ago, but I think it's about 2-3 waitlisters and 5-7 acceptances. Probably more acceptances now.

 

[kiernanbyrne]

I just spoke to admissions........

They said all writing decisions have gone out.

BAH!

(dies)

 

[Filipe]

Guys, why are you discarding a third (or a forth...) round of acceptances?

 

[Filipe]

Thanks for killing me, kiernan.

My previous post was 2 seconds too late. Forget it.

 

[smell_the_glove]

Ugh, didn't you just call them yesterday Kiernan, and they told you they weren't done yet? GOD! I feel like shoving my head in a toilet! Ugh, I don't wanna go to class!

 

[tabbycat]

to me, "all decisions have gone out" means they're in the mail, it doesn't mean that if you haven't gotten one you're not in...

 

[kiernanbyrne]

There seems to be a little more than a little conflicting information coming from them...

Also I live only 30 miles from USC, why in the world haven't I gotten it yet?

 

[kiernanbyrne]

tabby: that's true, they said "both admits and declines were sent out, so it could be either."