<p>I attended Las Positas community college in the California Bay Area for two years, and just moved down to LA where I am attending Santa Monica College for the Fall 2010/Spring 2011 semesters. My current GPA is 3.387, but if I maintain my grades I could have around a 3.51 at the end of the fall semester, and hopefully get it even higher in the spring semester. I am majoring in History, which I am doing the prerequisite work for these two semesters. What are my chances of getting into Loyola Marymount for History?</p>
<p>Just realize that Santa Monica College UC transferable classes are not easy peasy. You will have to work for what you earn at SMC so careful not to get too ahead of yourself!</p>
<p>Also one question? Your name is reelfilm but you want to go to Loyola Marymount for History!?!?!? Don’t get me wrong I love history but that is a lot of money to spend on such a degree. Granted they have an excellent history (and law) program but is that what you want to do? Loyola is in a great location (by the beach) relative to the film industry and has one of the best Music for Film programs in LA that you should really look into.</p>
<p>I took a few years of classes including history in the east bay and got mostly A’s but at SMC ended up getting straight B’s in UC level classes there my first 6 months. It ended up knocking down my 3.5+ down to a 3.3 overall for a while. I took Early Western Civ, Physical Geology, and PE during SMC’s 6 week winter session. It ended up being pretty intense for how much I learned in such a short time that I got straight B’s. I really liked the classes and quality of education but we ended up reading all of the fat meaty texts written by UCLA. That is SMCs standard in many classes as part of their academic based UC transferable course agreement to maintain high transfer rates to UCLA and beyond.
If you want to do well you will have to both read the book and do as much as the online portion as you can because UCLA write the tests for the book publication too which are difficult! I also took US History after Reconstruction that spring but only got a B again with a 16 unit load. It was the same situation but really enjoyed that class with the instructor I took whom was a great speaker and fair, firm, and fun professor.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, kmazza. In regards to your question about my name, reelfilm, it is because I actually wanted to be a film major and plan on trying as hard as I can to break into the film industry as my profession in some way (I want to be a writer/director). I changed my major now, however, after not getting accepted to some places and because I can’t afford to take another chance applying for film which is so hard to get into, and I won’t let myself be at community college for another year (this will be my third year). So I am increasing my chances of getting in by changing my major now.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Well I will level with you then. Your chances at becoming a director on a major motion picture are slim to none. If you want to become a screenwriter within the film or television industry then you would want to make English your BA major not History then. The best thing to do would be a double major English/Film and learn to write well! Good screenwriters are always in demand but the competition is fierce though.<br>
SMC has good Film Studies classes but is not a F/TV Production program so does not offer Directing. Since you have little industry experience and guessing not many film classes under your belt then I would suggest transferring to CSUN for English/Film. You are going down a completely different path if made History your major but are interested in film.</p>