USC MFA Screenwriting Fall 2016

[Paul J.]

Congrats to all the screenwriters too! Any idea what the "intent to enroll" is? Is it not yet binding? At which point does the 500d fee come in play?

 

[panda]

Congrats to all the screenwriters too! Any idea what the "intent to enroll" is? Is it not yet binding? At which point does the 500d fee come in play?

I believe it's just so the graduate school admissions people can have an indication of who's intending to enroll in the fall. I already submitted it and it leads to the creation of your USC graduate school log-in and email, I think!

 

[Paul J.]

So you paid the 500 dollar deposit at the same time? When and how does actual enrollment happen then?

 

[panda]

So you paid the 500 dollar deposit at the same time? When and how does actual enrollment happen then?

It might be different for the screenwriting program, but the deposit was through SCA rather than graduate admissions. I received one email from grad admissions that was very general with the Intent to Enroll link, and then another more specified from SCA with a link to accept and submit deposit.

 

[Paul J.]

@panda Were you provided with your financial package before accepting or was it just a no-brainer so you pulled the trigger non the less? I was surprised that no such info, tuition costs etc were absent from the acceptance letter. Maybe later via regular mail?

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Congrats everyone.

Has anyone reviewed their rejection letters? Waiting list?

 

[Point Break]

@panda Were you provided with your financial package before accepting or was it just a no-brainer so you pulled the trigger non the less? I was surprised that no such info, tuition costs etc were absent from the acceptance letter. Maybe later via regular mail?

Financial Aid is kind of a funny beast with USC. You'll receive any scholarship/fellowship offers with your official acceptance letter in the mail. Once you have your student login info, you can log into the financial aid website, USC FAST, but your scholarships/fellowships won't be applied to the system until right before the semester starts.

All of the tuition numbers are estimates, since we pay by the unit and that price can change each semester. The only guarantee is that it will be as expensive as you think, but if you look past that it's still a very worthwhile experience. Hope that helps

 

[Paul J.]

@Point Break thanks for the input! I am sure it's expensive. Then again it would be nice to see all the administration costs etc before committing. I attended the financial aid webinar and was actually surprised positivelly because the guestimates there were in the 30k (ish) range rather than 50k per year so... It could be worse?

 

[panda]

@panda Were you provided with your financial package before accepting or was it just a no-brainer so you pulled the trigger non the less? I was surprised that no such info, tuition costs etc were absent from the acceptance letter. Maybe later via regular mail?

The latter. I figured I'll make it work, though I'm of course still anxiously awaiting financial aid and scholarship information.

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Anyone else accepted receive their Physical acceptance letter package in the mail?

 

[Matt Ramphele]

Hey Kids, more great news. I won the George Lucas Diversity scholarship

 

[panda]

@Timothy Marc Hopper I finally did yesterday. @Matt Ramphele that's awesome! Did the notification come with the physical package? How did you find out?

 

[Paul J.]

@Matt Ramphele Nice! Congrats! You will be having a tough decision on which school to pick. Any first thoughts? And echoing Panda's question on how you were informed. Won't be seeing my physical package for two weeks since I'll be in NYC for Columbia (and fun)

 

[Matt Ramphele]

Well I live in South Africa, so it'll probably take a good couple of weeks to reach me . I just got an email.

 

[WriterGirl]

I didn't receive a letter so it looks lIke I'll have to reapply next year.

Same here. Did you apply anywhere else? I still have hope with Columbia and AFI, since both asked to interview me, and neither has sent acceptances to writers yet

But USC was always my dream school, so I'm super bummed, not going to lie...

 

[WriterGirl]

Has anyone reviewed their rejection letters? Waiting list?

Nope, but I'm sure we'll probably get them by next week, since they seem to have notified the "chosen ones" already

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

Nope, but I'm sure we'll probably get them by next week, since they seem to have notified the "chosen ones" already

So apparently USC is saying they have not officially selected everyone and that people are finding out on a rolling basis.

Their comments were there are Five professors in charge of this process and they each go through the stuff and then hand it off to another. So as they find out who is selected they will let them know.

If there is a USC Representative some people i am sure would be happy to hear your voice

 

[Timothy Marc Hopper]

***UPDATE***

A friend just informed me they called and talked with USC once again to find out more information

They have just made final decisions of final acceptances and rejections and waiting list and are processing them currently. They informed her we will find out by the end of this week latest.

So there is still hope apparently for some of you out there. Unless this is a mean joke by the school.

 

[WriterGirl]

***UPDATE***

A friend just informed me they called and talked with USC once again to find out more information

They have just made final decisions of final acceptances and rejections and waiting list and are processing them currently. They informed her we will find out by the end of this week latest.

So there is still hope apparently for some of you out there. Unless this is a mean joke by the school.

I hope they are not cruel enough to make such a joke

Thanks for the info!

 

[FranklyMyDear]

Let me be the first:

Officially Rejected @ 2:28 AM, 3/11/16. Emailed to see decision letter posted on YouSC.