<p>I am looking for an ivy-league caliber school that has a very good film school (theory/history and production). I am looking for oppurtunities as both a director and/or a producer.</p>
<p>I will also do my pre-med requirements because I might want to go to med school.</p>
<p>Why does Ivy-league caliber matter? Some of the best film schools arent Ivies...This is pathetic.</p>
<p>NYU (10 char)</p>
<p>usc (10 char)</p>
<p>Film is one of the few areas where an Ivy might not be the best bet. UCLA, USC, and NYU really do dominate and give real hands on practical training whereas the Ivies are more theoretical.</p>
<p>The Best Ivy in Film Studies is pretty much the only Ivy with an up-to-par film studies program, and that's at Yale.</p>
<p>UCLA, USC, and NYU all have programs that people preceive to be better.</p>
<p>Columbia has a decent program as well.</p>
<p>Hey, there. I was in the upstate-ish NY area visiting Syracuse (another great school for film and communications), and we decided to drive up to Cornell while we were in the area. On the tour, the guide asked me what I was interested in, and I said, "Film, other areas of communications". He looked at me like I had eight heads. I wasn't into bio-engineering? Applied physics? Well, I just wasn't worthy of the intellectualism there, then.</p>
<p>The idea of an Ivy is just an excuse for students and professors to blow air up their asses about how smart and cool they are and how they can surround themselves with pretty architecture. </p>
<p>NYU, USC, UCLA do pretty much have the monopoly as far as film goes. Syracuse is another big name. Intellectually, UCLA might be your best bet. But honestly, making films is about what's up in /your/ head, not really what someone can tell you about the theory of the American classics. I suggest you find a school that can educate you in the minimum practical requirements and land you sweet internships. Highly "prestigious" and "intellectual" schools are not focused on these things at all. Do the honors track wherever, and you'll get yourself a decent pre-med education, too.</p>
<p>My understanding is that the undergraduate film progarm at Columiba does not have production.</p>
<p>Ivy-League caliber as far as I am concerned includes schools such as usc, ucla, and nyu.</p>
<p>I want a school where I can get a good pre-med track along with film studies. I am not interested in specialized school such as Juilliard or the Hollywood Film Institute (Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/film/%5B/url%5D">http://www.arts.cornell.edu/film/</a></p>
<p>"Our program balances film studies and film production within a liberal arts major. We currently have 35 film majors, but many more students take our courses. Some choose the Film Major, some double-major in Film and another discipline, and some create their own Independent Major. A considerable resource in film education at Cornell is the extraordinary film exhibition program of Cornell Cinema. Many courses in film or related media studies are offered outside the department, which also may be counted toward the major. "</p>
<p>Also, if anyone could answer this, how does admissions into Film School work? Do you have to declare the major prior to entering college? Is admissions more intense? How do they judge the caliber of the applicant?</p>
<p>By all reports, admission to the UCLA film school is EXTREMELY competitive. You cannot enter the program as a Freshman, you have to transfer in from another school at UCLA or from outside as a Junior. Here is a link to their admissions page: <a href="http://www.tft.ucla.edu/ftv_ba/index.cfm?action=admit%5B/url%5D">http://www.tft.ucla.edu/ftv_ba/index.cfm?action=admit</a>.</p>
<p>The good news is that UCLA and USC are right in the heart of the film and television industry in the US. If you want to study film-making it is the place to be (all due respect to New Yahk).</p>
<p>three words: You Ess See</p>
<p>however i heard anything you film while a student at USC using their film equipment is property of the university, which kind of turns me off</p>
<p>Dont forget FSU. One of the most difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Right now I am considering:</p>
<p>USC
UCLA
NYU
Northwestern
Yale
Columbia
Chapman
Brown
Berkeley</p>
<p>you should really put brown at the top of your list. the modern culture and media concentration is very well regarded and very flexible in terms of combining theoretical work and production. you should go to their website and look at the faculty, courses, and especially the alumni--lots of important people in the film world.</p>
<p>also, brown's open curriculum will allow you to study film and fulfill the pre-med requirements without too much hassle. you'll be in great shape to go to medical school, or film school at usc, ucla, or nyu, schools that, with all due respect, don't offer as good an undergraduate education as brown</p>
<p>I believe that for all those film schools only three require a separate application/admissions process (USC, UCLA, and NYU).</p>
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you'll be in great shape to go to medical school, or film school at usc, ucla, or nyu, schools that, with all due respect, don't offer as good an undergraduate education as brown
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<p>sez you...</p>
<p>Wow, instantly everybody begins playing up the Ivy Leagues as "great film schools" -- face the truth: this is one area where an Ivy school is NOT the best option to go for; in fact, it's probably best to rule out all of them besides maybe Yale. With the others, even if they did have a good program for Film, there might be some disrespect associated with taking an "easy" major.</p>
<p>Now, to the person who copy and pasted something from Cornell's website...were your brain cells functioning properly when you posted that? Aside from them having their own cinema for exhibition (which really doesn't mean much), it offers very generic information, and since it comes from their website, obviously it's going to be saying they have a great program and such. Note, there are only 35 majors in the entire department...doesn't that say something?</p>
<p>And FYI, while a Brown education could do many great things, a "culture and media" concentration is not the same as film at all.</p>
<p>I'd say go for UCLA, USC, or NYU. Syracuse and Chapman are definitely other strong options, and Northwestern is good too. Columbia is alright. Berkeley? Not so much.</p>