<p>While I know that chances are slim on reapplication, I'm hoping that the other colleges I apply to for the first time will instead give me a chance.</p>
<p>However, my real question is my safety college that I'll have to defer admission from... if I do end up deferring admission (Rutgers, received full ride, and full scholarship will be considered for again after the gap year), I assume that I can't apply to any other colleges right, simply because that would nullify the terms of agreement on deferring admission. </p>
<p>But the whole point of deferring admission would be TO apply to other colleges... however, would it be possible to apply early (not SCEA or EA, just early, as Rutgers this year notified me of acceptance and a full scholarship quite early on at 11/11/12, before the usual RD application date of 12/31 or 1/1, eventually notifying me of acceptance on 12/4 and the the full scholarship on Jan 6th), get accepted early on, and THEN apply to other colleges? Would it violate anything?</p>
<p>You have a full ride to Rutgers… this is a bad thing? If you defer Rutger’s offer, I’m sure they will tell you the terms (such as a prohibition from applying to other schools). You want to chance that? That’d be unwise in the extreme.</p>
<p>On another thread you said you rec’d 8/9 rejections to very competitive programs. What program do you think you could even achieve that 1) is better than Rutgers and 2) is FREE like Rutgers?</p>
<p>You have a blessing in your back pocket and don’t even realize it… Don’t buy into this “name brand” crap. Go to Rutgers and never look back. Your full bank account upon graduation will be the envy of many.</p>
<p>^^ I completely agree. A full ride at Rutgers > taking a gap year and taking another shot at Harvard. Rutgers is a great school, even better if your cost is FREE!</p>
<p>The problem is that the schools I’ve been accepted to don’t prepare me for what I hope to soon do, that is film directing, and were a last resort to just get a stable job in the future… I can’t leave that as my only option though, I just can’t.
It’s not a name brand, it’s just that the one option I have does nothing for what I want to do/be.</p>
<p>well I’m not into digital filmmaking and I wasn’t accepted to the mason gross school of arts and I don’t think/know if my scholarship transfers if I did transfer over there.</p>
<p>FWIW: Harvard DOES NOT grant a degree in film making or film directing. They do, however, grant a degree in “fim studies” – the same as Rutgers, where you have been accepted. See: [Rutgers</a>, Cinema Studies:](<a href=“Error Page”>http://www.cinemastudies.rutgers.edu/)</p>
<p>^^ In addition, the vast majority of film and TV (upwards of 80%) is shot digitally today – so if care about getting a job after graduation, you must master the world of digital film making. And you can’t get that at Harvard, because they don’t offer a degree in it.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was a bit misleading posting this thread in Harvard… but I don’t plan on reapplying to Harvard, more schools like Yale and UPenn for film.
Ok, yea it’s all digital, but I want a place that will allow me to double major in film and something else. And I can’t do that at the Rutgers schools I’ve been accepted to…</p>
<p>^^ No that DOESN’T make sense, as Yale and UPenn do not grant a degree in film making or film directing either – only film studies, the same as you get at Rutgers on a free ride. If you take a gap year, please do not reapply to any of the ivies expressing an interest in film making or film directing, as none of them offer that kind of program. You need to investigate other schools that offer those majors, specifically NYU, USC, UCLA, The New School, NY Film Academy etc. Here’s my recommendation: Go to Rutgers, as it’s free. In the meantime, spend the time looking at Film Schools that accept a large number of transfer applicants and apply to those schools as a transfer student next year. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>If I’m following this correctly, yes, you need to rethink. You don’t get a film career for having majored in it at a Yale or other Ivy. Or even at Mason Gross. You get into the biz through hard work in the industry, earning opportunities and making contacts. What’s your experience so far? A good bet (considering the insecurities in film) is to become educated, so you have an informed perspective, something to share through your filmmaking. Not expect college to be trade school. Go to Rutgers, take classes open to you at MG. If you’re good and gain the right experiences, a transfer may be possible. Or grad school at USC or UCLA. Somehow, thinking you can get "there " from an Ivy seems incompletely informed.</p>
<p>My question is slightly unrelated. But, I think that that some of you might be able to answer it. </p>
<p>My teachers encouraged me to apply as a junior this year, as one of the top students in my school. However, I recently learnt that I have been rejected from all six schools that I applied to. </p>
<p>Two of my interviewers have indicated that I was the best candidate they ever interviewed. They stated that they think I have been rejected due to being a junior. Now, am I disadvantaged next year if I reapply?</p>
<p>^^ No, I don’t think you will be disadvantaged in any way, as juniors are not often admitted. You should reapply as a senior (writing new essays and with new teacher recs)! Good luck to you.</p>
<p>Why is this in the Harvard Section if this has nothing to do with Harvard</p>
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<p>lolz</p>
<p>Also Yale is just as difficult as Harvard to get into and UPenn just slightly less difficult but still a crap shoot.</p>
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<p>You really are looking at the wrong kinds of schools for film making IMO.</p>
<p>I would think you would want to be applying to more liberal arts schools, or like NorthWestern or Brown if you want the ivy tag.</p>
<p>Maybe an LA school because you will be in the middle of the movie industry for internships or NYU or something ja feelz me?</p>
<p>I don’t think you become a film director or whatever by “majoring” in it… You become one through experience step by step… I would think even if there was a major for it, I would probably discourage it as it would kill your creativity. </p>
<p>The best writers out there didn’t go to school for writing, look at J.K Rowling or Ray Bradbury or Maya Angelou, in fact my mom knew Kurt Vonegut’s agent guy thing (don’t know what exactly to call him but he owns the biggest publishing company in the world) and she was thinking about going back to graduate school to become a writer and he told her not to because it will make her be like everybody else and she will lose her unique-ness.</p>
<p>I would think the same would apply for filming. Take classes at the surface to get a feel for it but don’t follow it too strictly or you will conform to their standards and probably miss out on many opportunities.</p>
<p>If I were you I would research some great film-makers, the role models you look up to in the industry and research how they got to where they were. Doesn’t look like you did much research.</p>
<p>edit again: I have no experience in the film industry and I am just writing what I think to be common sense, or its common sense to me. But I could be completely off base? I have absolutely NO CREDENTIALS. K.</p>
This is somewhat of a digression but nevertheless: as somewhat of an aspiring writer who attends a collegiate-grade creative writing program five days a week, I’d have to disagree with this. Perhaps some programs are less stimulating than others, but I can personally attest to the value of directed education in the creative arts; while some prodigies (Kurt Vonnegut) have an innate ability to produce top-quality work, the vast majority of artists are going to benefit from at least some training in their art. You don’t go to school to become a writer, you go to school to become a better one. </p>
<p>Additionally, one of my teachers, who is a brilliant writer with a book of short stories published, went through the MFA program at the University of Alabama and I know that he values that experience very highly.</p>
<p>Not trying to be a priss, but I just wanted to present another side to the whole thing :D</p>
<p>This professionalization of creative writing always seemed a bit odd. Go to college to learn how to think. To grow as a human and to develop a nuanced and inquiring mind. By all means write, write, write and get people you respect to read and critique from professor to upperclassmen on the lit mag. But primarily go to develop as a person–a person like that has something to say when they write.</p>
<p>I agree for the most part, and I think honestly that the one of the primary benefits of creative writing instruction, at least for someone like me, is forced practice under the tutelage of a talented writer and surrounded by other talented writers. The other benefits - exposure to great literature, learning to take and make criticisms effectively, figuring out how to truly kill your darlings, etc.- are a bit easier I think for the self-motivated person to acquire on their own. However, I think arts instruction sometimes gets a bad rap as being detrimental to creativity, and I do disagree with that pretty strongly.</p>
<p>To the thoughts about creative writing: I don’t think that this applies.
To everyone else: … Ok guys, after close consulting with a lot of different, experienced people (mind you, that I was only rejected since Friday, so I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking/not as much as you’d think)… I will take your advice about going to Rutgers and transferring later.
And one thing that deterred me from transferring was the low admissions rates for many top colleges; however, I think I feel a bit relieved when I find out I’m only competing against around 1000-2000 people for most colleges, as opposed to like tens of thousands in the regular admissions process. While the admissions rate is lower for transfers, … I guess it’s not as bad if I look at it in how many people I effectively have to “beat”?</p>