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[quote=Anonymous]We have family friends whose DS won several documentary awards while in high school and has a real passion for filmmaking.  He's pretty good.  They are World Bank/IMF employees, so DS could have gone to university in Canada for free.  We thought that was a better option, as many films and shows are made in Canada and would have provided good experience.

However, the DS wanted to go to NYU film school and follow in Scorsese's footsteps.  DS felt that the Canadian route was not as prestigious, so it was off to NYU.  But it wasn't just the usual COA for NYU, which is already sky-high. Because of all the social networking required, the family spent on much more expensive rent and upkeep so DS could hang with the much richer, connected students in the school.

DS didn't go into debt, which is good. But the family now has spent a lot of its resources and has little $ for their other DCs for university.

We really hope things work out for this kid. He's a good kid. But for every Scorsese, there's a Tarantino (or many of them) who never even finished high school, and learned his craft by working in a video store and watching movies.  Spielberg went (in-state) to a Cal State before dropping out.

Film school is like art school.  If you've got real talent, it will help.  But you've got to be prepared either (1) to starve or (2) to compromise and take more commercial work, and even with that talent it might not work out.[/quote]

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