It’s commonly known that UCLA film has an acceptance rate of 2%.
So what are the others?
USC?
NYU?
Chapman?
LMU?
I know Chapman’s is 15%, and I can assume that LMU’s is probably similar to Chapman’s.
And I’m guessing that USC and NYU are around the same acceptance rate for UCLA, especially given that USC’s didn’t accept a single U.S. applicant last year (at least that’s what I heard).
@WJShipp are you talking about the undergraduate school of Cinema Arts? There are for sure US applicants in their freshman class.
@CaliDad2020 For USC, yes. I swear I heard somewhere that they did not accept a single U.S. student. I may be wrong, but I remember attending a USC college visit at my school where they said that.
What I know for sure is that it is super competitive. Now, what I could have heard is that more international students were accepted than U.S. students, but I’m pretty sure I heard the former.
I went to USC (though not the film school) and find it impossible to believe the film school didn’t accept any US students. In fact, I’d expect a majority of accepted freshmen were from the US.
I always hear the USC film school accepts between 3%-5% of applicants.
@WJShipp I don’t know the numbers and I know it is extremely competitive, but I also know a kid from down the block who got in there last year, so unless our street has silently seceded there’s at least one.
Not sure what nationality would have to do with it anyway, but it is really hard to get in, no matter where you are from, or so I’ve heard.
(BTW, I just did a quick twitter search of “USC Film Accepted” and it looks like a bunch of kids who got in tweeted their acceptance. You could get a sense of what kind of students are getting in from there if anyone really cared, but it’s just flat out Stanford + hard to get in.)
Hi, everyone! I just phoned Loyola Marymount myself, and they said their acceptance rate was 6% last year. So I assume USC and NYU will be lower, probably around 5%.
(btw, @WJShipp I don’t think not accepting a single US student is even possible)
What about UT Austin RTF program,
anyone know acceptance rates?
@momtomine - not sure of the actual rate, but extremely low for Out of State applicants
I believe that FSU also has an extremely low acceptance rate (4% or less). They only accept approximately 20 students and that is after an interview process.
Any of the top film schools that are limited access programs will have extremely low acceptance rates. My son was accepted to FSU and is now waiting to see if he is invited to the mandatory interview for the film school. From what I have heard, they will interview less than 50 applicants out of around 350 who were accepted by the university. Only about 20 will be accepted from that pool of interviewees.
From those numbers, the acceptance rate would appear to be about 5.7% (20/350). However, that number wouldn’t include the applicants who were denied admission to the university. Say that would be another 150 students (just a wild guess on my part), that would put the acceptance rate at 4% (20/500).
Each graduating class from FSU’s film school is around 30 students. The additional ten are transfers who go through a similar, yet separate, application process.