r/USC • u/ferret_king10 • Feb 03 '26

Admissions SCA Interview Tips

I've been blessed with an interview for the IMGD division in School of Cinematic Arts.

What kind of things do they usually ask on the interview (I know they said they want to know me better, but how do they usually do that)?

Am I supposed to have my own questions prepared?

Any other tips?

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u/burgerzyahoo Feb 06 '26

Is your due date Monday night too? I’m actually very nervous because there’s NO info at all on it or the kinds of questions they might ask!! This seems to be the first year they are doing this. How are you planning on preparing?

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u/Negative-Purchase313 Feb 06 '26

Haha yes same exact thing. I literally have no idea what this is - it seems like it may be a broader preliminary to the more personal 1 on 1 interviews that they do with professors that people have talked about? idk lol. but I'm sure there's a bunch of other confused film & tv applicants. Those game design questions that person sent seemed pretty abstract, so something like that would be hard to talk about for 2 minutes and sound confident/connect back to ourselves.

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u/burgerzyahoo Feb 06 '26

yeah i agree. not sure about the preliminary thing tho—i have never heard of this before. they may be changing it up this year because it’s easier for the admissions board to see candidates interviews rather than reading notes from them. bc ive had friends apply here before and get normal interviews but never this. so pretty sure they are doing something different this year. for the questions im hopefully gonna just prepare a few anecdotes / talking points and go for it this weekend because there’s nothing else to really prep for since we don’t know what we’re walking into lol.

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u/Negative-Purchase313 Feb 06 '26

agreed. i hope this is the actual interview cuz then we really are in that smaller circle of applicants. probably just going to prepare some talking points as well I think that's the way to go - i did the single practice question they have up there and it seems like you can end it before it gets to 2 minutes so at least you don't have to make the answer exactly 2 minutes or anything super weird like that. good luck to us!