Anonymous wrote:It isn't just California, people. I'd venture to say that maybe 4/5 of the country doesn't even realize there is this freakish obsession with ivy league education on the east coast (or, to be more accurate, the New York-Philadelphia-Washington corridor). I was a top notch student in another part of the country and it never even crossed my mind that I should be applying to the ivies. I didn't even know what they were, beyond some vague understanding that Harvard was a place for geniuses. The same educational obsession seems to continue into securing the right career path, working for the right investment banking or law firm, and so on. Life everywhere else is so much different. It seems to me that a lot of people who were born and raised and remain in this bubble have no idea. It can be so much simpler.

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California is definitely not for the pasty-faced, the tight-assed and the self-righteous. West coast-represent, now put your hands up, baby.

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Anonymous wrote:Entrance to USC film school is very competitive. Much more difficult to get into that than the MBA, law, medical, engineering and music divisions.

does film school add value other than putting you in touch with movers and shakers? i.e, if you are an artist/visionary isn't it better just to keep shooting and making films? I don't think Chris Nolan went to film school.

Good grief. Would you ask that question about Julliard?

Anonymous wrote:Question for all you west coast fans, why are you here? I am guessing living here is better than eating out of garbage cans in Cali? Appreciate.

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Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

The film industry is a trillion dollar industry. It's a primary export of the US. It's a primary means by which the US excercises soft power.

You are a provincial idiot.

Anonymous wrote:Question for all you west coast fans, why are you here? I am guessing living here is better than eating out of garbage cans in Cali? Appreciate.

Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

Anonymous wrote:Film school? Whoop-ti-do. Although, I guess in Cali, that's a big deal. From what I've heard all the Cali schools have been struggling lately.

A sample: " I’d be lying if I said what we offer students hasn’t been changed and that there hasn’t been a degradation of the learning environment,” said Timothy White, the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside" NYT 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/california-cuts-threaten-the-status-of-universities.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And it gets worse. More than 60% of freshmen at these "prestigious schools" are in remedial math. They can't all be from MoCo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/opinion/sunday/resurrecting-californias-public-universities.html

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Anonymous wrote:Entrance to USC film school is very competitive. Much more difficult to get into that than the MBA, law, medical, engineering and music divisions.

does film school add value other than putting you in touch with movers and shakers? i.e, if you are an artist/visionary isn't it better just to keep shooting and making films? I don't think Chris Nolan went to film school.