@fsumom236 I’m a freshman. Do you know what essay they are talking about? Is it the personal journey statement about wanting to be a filmmaker or the writing sample we submitted?
@awkwardambition Your personal journey statement. I think someone also posted a link on first page with more info
@awkwardambition Yes, the personal journey statement. But, I wouldn’t get too wrapped up in what you think they may ask you. Relax and be yourself. Good luck today and congrats for making it this far!
@awkwardambition Good luck, mate! I agree with what @jrmutley said about just being yourself. You got this!
@fsumom236 My son just got his email from the School of Communication. He got accepted into the DMP program! 
Now, he just has to see if he gets an interview with the film school. Such a relief to know that he got into at least one of his choices!!!
@jrmutley That’s awesome! Tell your son congrats. I don’t think my daughter has received an email yet. I hope that’s not a bad sign 
My fingers are crossed for you, @fsumom236!
@jrmutley Unfortunately my daughter was not accepted into DMP Keeping my fingers crossed that she gets a interview with the film school.
I just finished my interview! When do they notify people whether or not they’ve been accepted into the film program?
Just got the email for the interview! I get to choose from five sessions it seems. I’m a transfer for anyone that reads this later on. I wish everyone luck in the next few days. Hope you all land an interview!
Sorry to hear, @fsumom236. I was there last year when my son didn’t get an interview. Good luck.
@awkwardambition From what I’ve seen before, it depends. Some get offers relatively quickly. Others are kind of deferred as the other candidates accept or deny their offers. As some candidates turn down admission, the school works down their list of other candidates they liked. Don’t get too worried if you don’t hear anything right away.
Congratulations and best of luck on your interview @jrcheeseburger!!
Unfortunately my daughter was not selected for an interview
@fsumom236 - As I see it, everything is meant to be and the universe has a plan for everyone. If she didn’t get in there’s probably a good reason. “Hindsight is 20/20” is a quote that I always try to remember when things seem to be falling out of place. I wish her the best of luck wherever she ends up. Odds are she was meant to end up there. 
I re-read what I wrote and failed to realize my second sentence may come off as rude. I intended it to be interpreted as “a good reason” meaning that her life path seems to not include FSU. Not that she did bad and that’s why she didn’t get in. Sorry if it came off wrong
@FSUMON236 Do not worry about your daughter not getting accepted into the FSU Film Program. As someone who finished school there, I can tell you that one day you will see the College of Motion Picture Arts (CMPA) on the front page of a news papers for a major corruption scandal. Starting with the recently moved on Dean of the school, Frank Patterson, profiting close to $90,000 while spending student and state funds on a defunct animation program called Digital Domain. The school is still dealing with the fall out of DD as there are huge crates of DD equipment constantly shuffled from one CMPA storage room to another in an attempt to hide it from higher school and public officials. http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/the-downfall-digital-domain-how-public-millions-vanished/zNr7bwo0gobvwRSidMPPpO/
Reb Braddock, the current Dean, loves to throw ridiculously expensive parties at the school on the student’s dime. Student’s tuition funds are spent on alcohol for him and his broskis. Students are not invited.
The academic staff is vastly over stretched and can BARELY accommodate 60 students coming in per year (30 for undergrad and 30 for graduate). Professors have little motivation to teach you or care about you when they log in over 60/80 hours a week. Its not uncommon to find professors asleep during class meetings and sneak out for phone calls so much that you don’t see them for %50 of the course. The amount of pressure on professors and the lack of sleep or family time they get means they are far more likely to become agitated when asked to do their professional job to some standard.
The school NEEDS an overhaul on its equipment program and the people that over see it. Right now, students only have access to about %10 of the total equipment. The rest are reserved for professor’s own projects or rented out under the table with no record. Its all possible because faculty is simply shuffling equipment from storage room to another with no cause or end in sight to the madness. The %10 of equipment that is available to students has an absurdly high failure rate and they LOVE to charge individual students up to $500 for each piece of broken equipment. If students refuse to accept the equipment provided, they will more than likely be removed from the program.
CMPA also likes to boast about it’s low tuition rate and high employment rate after graduation. Let me just flat out say that both of these are untrue. The low tuition rate is hidden by a hefty amount of undisclosed demands placed on students. For example, during production days, one student assigned the role of producer will often have to dig into their own pocket to feed a crew of 5 to 30 people. Students cannot refuse the position without threat of being kicked out of the program. I honestly don’t know where they get %90 employment rate 2 weeks after graduation. The employment rate is more so at %25 for the last couple of graduating classes 6 months to 2 years after graduation.
It’s pretty grim going to this school and most students who graduate the program won’t talk bad it publicly because we all have an image to uphold to the general public. That FSU can consistently crank out Barry Jenkins over and over again.
The Digital Domain saga is old news–I think Florida sued the company for fraud and recovered some money, although certainly no where near the money invested. I think the bankruptcy was 2012 and FL’s lawsuit was in 2014. Can’t speak to your other concerns although I do know a few graduates and they certainly haven’t expressed any of your concerns. I do think the employment rate is a little misleading as many graduates are employed in low-level PA type jobs to begin, but I think most film school applicants expect to start there post graduation. It’s a tough industry.
Thanks for your kind words @jrcheeseburger. I didn’t take it as being rude at all. Now that all the “dust” has settled she is looking into other majors at FSU. Keep us posted on how your interview goes.
@marcuscaulius Having to pay to feed the crew balances out from all the free meals you’d get from other people buying you food during their productions. I’d say it’s more than fair since they pay for everything else essentially. There’s work for whoever works to get it. If somebody doesn’t get a job within six months after graduation, they probably aren’t hustling hard enough. Also, this is the actual statement “This provides more than 97% of Film School graduates with meaningful work in the industry within 12 months of graduation.” Not two weeks after graduation, 52 weeks. A whole year. I can’t speak of anything else you said because I’ve never read on any of that. But, I hope it’s untrue as well.
Has anyone heard from FSU?
I find it interesting that @marcuscaelius seems to have created that profile for the sole purpose of bashing FSU’s film school. I know a recent FSU film school grad who agrees about the digital domain / Frank Patterson stuff, but little else. Plus, as mentioned above, that is old news.
I’ve mentioned this grad’s FSU film school experiences in another message thread before. If you search my profile, it probably wouldn’t be hard to find. The grad that I know also loves Reb Braddock, and says that most current students and faculty would agree with that.
Edit: I looked up my old post that referenced Frank Patterson and digital domain. Here is the link.
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20347836/#Comment_20347836