Goals After College

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I have recently Graduated High school and want to Film Editor for Online media and Traditional media. My goal after college is to get a job working for a production company. I plan on doing this by going to a junior college to get my Associates Degree then Transferring to another school to Major in Film. During this time I am going to get an internship to get experience in how to work in my industry.
My first step is to Attend community college for my general education. I have already applied to a local community college and have been accepted. I am currently waiting on the college to open up class registrations. My goal was to finish my general studies as soon as possible to start taking classes in my career. Based on my assessment test results I am already close to transfer rates. I have kept a total 3.0 GPA all 4 years of high school as provided on my Transcripts.
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I am currently Enrolled in a junior college. The school has a partnership with California State University system and gives students a better opportunity to enroll in those schools. I am going to graduate with enough units to transfer so I would have a better chance of getting into CSULB. I want to go to Cal State long beach because out of all of the schools in the CSU or UC system it is the best local school for what I want to do. When I am accepted I want to go to the college to study and work in the film department. I would have already prepared for entering this career by taking previous classes on producing film and film studies since high school. During this time I would be getting a part time job to help support to help with work experience for later jobs in my career. This would all be possible because I would have previously graduated a junior college that has a partnership with the school with a great film

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