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Originally posted by Monotreme:
Personally, I will be attending NYU starting this fall, and as far as I'm concerned, it is absolutely the best school I could have gotten in to. I applied to a number of other schools - including Chapman, USC, FSU - and was accepted into all of them, but my ultimate deciding factor in choosing NYU, aside from its reputation which certainly precedes it, was the location.

Florida's program looked really great - small classes, supportive of its students, full funding of projects by the school - but what opportunities would I have for internships and post-graduation employment in the field in Florida?

USC is also considered one of the top film schools, but almost everyone I know told me to stay away from Los Angeles as long as I possibly could. On the other hand, it has been my dream to live in New York City for quite a while now, and the combination of attending a highly regarded film school and living in what is probably my favorite city in the world ended up being the deciding factor for me.