USC Screenwriting MFA - Fall 2019 (2 Viewers)

[mersault]

Totals. If screenwriting is what you ought to do with your life, no rejection will ever steer you away from it.

That being said, there'll most likely be another opportunity for letters next weekend.

 

[dorkydiana]

to the one person who has gotten theirs congrats and to the others i’m almost positive this was the first wave and letters are gonna start trickling in tonight and next weekend as well and look on the bright side the one person who said they got theirs is an international student which means domestic ones have yet to be released

 

[Mdub_2013]

Hi all, just received my acceptance letter 30 minutes ago. It's basically an email telling you to log into the "youSC" portal.

Best of luck to all of you!

Congrats! That’s awesome ??

 

[mersault]

Thanks, guys!

According to last year there was no distinction made between int./dom. Alphabetical order doesn't seem to fit the procedure as well. Maybe it's just random or based on a more gradual admission process.

Anyway, I'm pretty certain that loads more of these letters are in the pipe.

 

[Eddy]

Congrats! That’s awesome ??

I got an email and checked my portal. It says I have to show proof that I can afford it before getting the official letter of acceptance. Is that normal? It says we look forward to seeing u on campus. Idk if this means I’m in. What if I can’t afford it? I’m so nervous.

 

[Mdub_2013]

I got an email and checked my portal. It says I have to show proof that I can afford it before getting the official letter of acceptance. Is that normal? It says we look forward to seeing u on campus. Idk if this means I’m in. What if I can’t afford it? I’m so nervous.

What does that even mean ?!? ?

 

[Cd23]

I got an email and checked my portal. It says I have to show proof that I can afford it before getting the official letter of acceptance. Is that normal? It says we look forward to seeing u on campus. Idk if this means I’m in. What if I can’t afford it? I’m so nervous.

A lot of people in the past have gotten an email similar and it pretty much means you're accepted

 

[BuddernScotch]

Ahhhggghhjkkk!!!!

 

[Chris W]

Hi all, just received my acceptance letter 30 minutes ago. It's basically an email telling you to log into the "youSC" portal.

Best of luck to all of you!

I got an email and checked my portal. It says I have to show proof that I can afford it before getting the official letter of acceptance. Is that normal? It says we look forward to seeing u on campus. Idk if this means I’m in. What if I can’t afford it? I’m so nervous.

Congratulations guys! You're in!

Be sure to update your Applications in the tracker.

 

[dorkydiana]

did anyone else get in? do you guys think there will be more tonight? also do you think this was the “first wave” for screenwriting applicants since clearly we’ve established we don’t know what the hell is going on this year ?

 

[dorkydiana]

i gotta know before i fall into a disassosiative state lol

 

[Cd23]

So this whole week is just gonna be

i gotta know before i fall into a disassosiative state lol

ha yup I’m right there with you

 

[addik]

Me three! We'll be there having anxieties over the week unless something comes up soon.

Plus, I'm also waiting on that response from the Film Production MFA so I'm not sure if I get them together or if I get them separately.

 

[Septopus7]

I got an email and checked my portal. It says I have to show proof that I can afford it before getting the official letter of acceptance. Is that normal? It says we look forward to seeing u on campus. Idk if this means I’m in. What if I can’t afford it? I’m so nervous.

As I said, international students get this all the time as their acceptance info, since you guys have to jump through more hoops to pay for tuition than domestic students (if worse comes to worse, almost all of us can take out loans to pay the piper...international students don't have that luxury.)

So yeah, you are in, as long as you can show sources of funding for the program. Which I assume you can, otherwise you wouldn't have even applied based on the requirement.

 

[StarChild]

Congratulations to those who got in!!!

For the rest of us I guess fingers crossed, but I gotta admit my hopes have plummeted slightly (Lol plummeted...slightly ?). I hope we all hear soon. Too bad I thought I had a real shot!

 

[Michel Lichand]

Congrats to those who got and will get in.

Can't wait to meet you all in August. I'll be the one probably telling you all to go to Disneyland.

P.S.: Feel free to ask me about teachers when that time comes.

 

[StarChild]

@Septopus7 do you how big the second wave is compared to the first? If they’re similar in size or more stragglers? (My hopes are rising again ?)

 

[Cd23]

Congratulations to those who got in!!!

For the rest of us I guess fingers crossed, but I gotta admit my hopes have plummeted slightly (Lol plummeted...slightly ?). I hope we all hear soon. Too bad I thought I had a real shot!

I feel you. I read a lot of last year's thread and I'm pretty sure no one on it got in until the second wave in March. So we can hold on for 1 more week then lose all hope haha

 

[Septopus7]

@Septopus7 do you how big the second wave is compared to the first? If they’re similar in size or more stragglers? (My hopes are rising again ?)

Impossible to say, as it varies by year/applicants. I don't want to bum anyone out too much (and, let me add, it usually is an outlier when it happens!) but, sometimes, there is no second phase at all. In 2016, like 6 people found out on March 4, and no other acceptances were sent out anytime before or after. Just on that weekend. Did that mean USC decided to release them all at once one year? Highly unlikely -- it just meant that, for the people ON THIS FORUM, chance happened to land on them all finding out at once.

As I've stressed many times in the past, we are not a representative at all of the entire applicant pool for any program, USC, screenwriting, or otherwise. Hell, I really wish we were -- it would make the data far more conclusive. But we are just a slim percentage of the actual group, so when things happen, it's hard to determine whether it's truly a pattern, or just simply happenstance.

Now that being said? My personal philosophy is a numbers game. At this point, only two people have checked in with acceptances, and both are international. That's really low, with a mean being more like five people getting accepted from this group (and usually more.) So my gut says there's more to come at some point. Will it be tonight, or next weekend, of April 32nd? Hard to know. But I don't quite think we are all done yet.

Yet.

 

[Chris W]

Will it be tonight, or next weekend, of April 32nd?

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