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UPTA vs. SETC
« on: Oct 21, 2009, 02:21 pm »
I am graduating this December from College, and am curious as to if I should attend both UPTA and SETC. From what I have seen, many of the companies at SETC are going to UPTA. And UPTA is much cheaper than SETC. Is there still really a good enough benefit for me to attend both?

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Re: UPTA vs. SETC
« Reply #1 on: Oct 21, 2009, 11:25 pm »
I didn't go to UPTA, but I didn't have much luck at SETC. This was a few years back, but the tech portion I found to be pretty disorganized, and a lot of theaters didn't stay the whole day or simply didn't show up as it was on a Monday. I did meet a couple theaters I ended up working for later on, and I did get a short-term job out of it, but it wasn't what I was hoping for.
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Re: UPTA vs. SETC
« Reply #2 on: Oct 22, 2009, 05:09 pm »
I went to SETC last year, and it seemed a bit disorganized. It was long, and there were mostly college-level and even lower professionals. Very few were actually working professionals in the "real world."

 

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