The problem with film school's like Columbia, is they're deluding their students with this ludicrously unreasonable expectation that they're going to graduate a

The problem with film school's like Columbia, is they're deluding their students with this ludicrously unreasonable expectation that they're going to graduate and immediately get jobs at the very top of the film industry hierarchy. It's like if every business school just taught their students how to be CEOs, and completely ignored the practical, hands on skills required to actually work your way up to such a position over a decades long career in the real world. Sure everyone wants to be a writer or director, but those so called "Above the line" positions make up a tiny fraction of the cast and crew that go into making a film, and sit at the tipy-top of the pecking order. The vast majority of people who work on a given film are in props, costumes, construction, set dec, production, finance, marketing, ec., yet film schools broadly speaking ignore all these lucrative, fulfilling film industry careers in favor of pumping out legions of wanna-be writers and directors competing for an incredibly small number of jobs. Sadly, like so many other post-secondary institutions, film schools are really selling a dream rather than selling a path to a career.