Hi so Im a current community college student who is planning on transferring to a university film school. I have a list of 10 schools that im applying to but i my dream school is usc. im applying to both the screenwriting program and the film/tv production program; i havent decided which one i like more so im applying to both. but anyway heres what i have to work with. my highschool record was nothing impressive. i mostly got a’s and b’s but i did get 2 f’s and 6 d’s, which is why i decided to go to community college. i was really lazy and immature in highschool and had promised myself i would change in CC. it turns out that i still wasnt ready to change though as my CC experience did not go well my first two semesters. i started college right in the summer after highschool by taking a 4 unit english class. two weeks left in the semester i got lazy and stopped going and got an f. and because i still had not learned my lesson, the following fall i signed up for 18 units. as you could guess, by october i withdrew from all 7 courses. because of this i was put on probation. however, during the last three months of the fall i did finally show improvement. i lost 60 pounds (i got fat senior year of highschool) and i also got my first job and was working 30 hours a week. probation actually turned out to be a good thing for me because the amount of units i was allowed to take was limited and so it forced me to avoid overdoing my course load. i finally buckled down in the winter and was ready to change. by the end of my first year i had not only gotten myself out of academic probation but i also got accepted into the honors society. anyway i wont summarize each following semester but ill give you an overview:
ill have taken 3 years to graduate from CC. i have those first two bad semesters but i have drastically improved and changed since then. i anticipate to graduate with three assoicate degrees in : tv production, english, and the humanities. my current gpa is 3.9. i also am going to graduate as an honors certified scholar. ill have taken a total of 115 semester units. i am also president of my schools phi theta kappa honors society.
as for my film school qualifications:
i am president of my schools film club. i have directed 3 short films with one of them winning the “best short” award at a local film festival. in the three years i was at CC i did ALOT of creative writing that includes: screenwriting, playwriting, short story writing, and poetry writing. i am a self taught playwright while the other 3 areas i learned from taking classes. as for my acolades in writing: i won an online competion for two short screenplays, 1 one-act play, and 1 poem. i have also had 2 of my short stories published.
i think i have a good chance at getting into my dream school (usc) but at the same time some things worry me. it took my 3 years to graduate which is longer than most and i did bad those first two semesters and was on academic probation. what do you guys think my chances are.