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I am just starting to look at grad schools and after some lurking here and research (plus an eye-opening meeting at Tisch where I learned very few applicants make it and they're all mostly older and experienced), I'm unsure what to do...my undergrad is theater design/tech, although definitely more design than tech. I'm at a flagship university in the South, will graduate next May and although I love the theater, I have fallen in love with film production. I've been trying to beef up my portfolio and while I've worked on several short films, have a few awards, am doing what I can here- I feel it's a thin portfolio and I don't have any professional experience (and no internship this summer, obviously). Should I even bother to apply to MFA programs this fall? These are the schools I'm interested in: Brooklyn College, Tisch (dream school), plus UT-Austin, University of Miami and some schools in the west. If I wait and work, I'm not sure how I could even get a job or internship in film production, with the pandemic and the uncertainty. Thanks for any advice!