USC MFA Screenwriting Fall 2016

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Hey everyone...couldn't find a thread for this year's applicants. figured I would start it and begin the anguish of lurking.

 

[nervouslurker]

I've pretty much given up on UCLA and this is the only other program I applied to. I won't start losing my mind until the end of the month though based on previous years. I did wake up about an hour ago to an email from the financial aid office saying they are still waiting on my corrected fafsa so there's that to fill my time.

 

[FranklyMyDear]

Judging by last year, looks like 'SC delivers their acceptances next week.

*GULP*

 

[panda]

Also received that email, @nervouslurker

How does everyone feel about the creative challenge scenes they submitted? I've re-read mine so many times I've started to think they're horrible (but that's probably just a product of me overanalyzing).

 

[lady-vengeance]

Hey guys! Glad there's so many support group threads going on right now!

And @panda I've been going through my stuff so often, it's unhealthy. I've never been so obsessive over my stuff until applications happened. This waiting, though, is killer; all this stress is bad for my skin :/

 

[panda]

@lady-vengeance I know what you mean. I'm mostly stressing about one of my challenges that I ended up rewriting last minute. I wanted to inject comedy into my application because everything else seemed so heavy, but I've admittedly never written much comedy... so I hope it came across as it was meant to (satire) rather than not (in which case it'd be interpreted as potentially sexist and shallow). Ha...

 

[panda]

Seems we'll be hearing back soon! Those who were accepted last year were notified during the last weekend of February, but it was also a 4-week month. If their timeframe is based on number of days since app submission, we would hear back this weekend. If it's "notify last weekend of February," we'll be hearing back next weekend.

 

[FranklyMyDear]

My fingers have been crossed so long and so hard at this point they've melded together.

 

[nervouslurker]

https://camel2.usc.edu/AdmGradCertification/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=/AdmGradCertification/

Has anyone tried logging into the Statement of Intent page again? Still nothing for me.

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

https://camel2.usc.edu/AdmGradCertification/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=/AdmGradCertification/

Has anyone tried logging into the Statement of Intent page again? Still nothing for me.

yep...nothing. I believe they typically mail the notifications.

 

[Point Break]

Either this weekend or next!

I know the SCA professors already read applications and sent their suggestions to campus admissions, so it's in their hands.

USC admissions mails notifications, but last year it hit their online system on the same day: 02/20/15. So, some of us (eager beavers) were able to log into the Statement of Intent page, but didn't get the official email to check our online status until that Sunday: 02/22/15.

It was the morning of that year's Oscars, if that has any influence (probably not, but this year's event is 02/28/16). Whether it's this weekend or next, good luck to everyone waiting to here good news!!! And remember, waitlist possibilities are possible even up to the first week of the Fall 2016 semester if you don't receive a rejection letter.

 

[Boe21]

Hey everyone, I also applied to USC's screenwriting MFA program -- was hoping to wake up to a notification email this morning (judging from previous years) but looks like we're in for a bit more of a wait. Best of luck to everyone!

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Hey everyone, I also applied to USC's screenwriting MFA program -- was hoping to wake up to a notification email this morning (judging from previous years) but looks like we're in for a bit more of a wait. Best of luck to everyone!

Right? I wish. The band aid is always so slowly peeled when dealing with admission processes.

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Hey everyone

Talked to the school today.

No official word on a timetable for decision notification.

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

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We'll. Looks like tomorrow is our day folks.

 

[Tiffany Kontoyiannis]

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We'll. Looks like tomorrow is our day folks.

I HOPE SO!

 

[CReynes]

@Timothy Marc Hopper, How do you know it will be tomorrow?

 

[Brawn Burgundy]

I second the whole "how are we sure it's tomorrow?" argument. Please, we need details!

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

I guess my rain dancing did not work too well. Was hoping to Spartan our way out of purgatory by just declaring it would be the day. Maybe it is the Oscar's.

Wonder if that is for the irony of "and the award goes too..."

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Name is Timothy Marc Hopper. Born and raised in Orange county. How about you all?

Former Marine and soon to be graduate from California Institute of the Arts with a Film/Video BFA

How about you all?


P.S.
How many times do you check your decision status in the day?

I think I am at about a few times an hour even during sleep