Cal Pryluck's caveat regarding the verissimilitude of the AFI Guide to Film Schools is very well taken. The listings are about as accurate as the information supplied by the individual schools, and anyone who has had experience reading course descriptions in most course catalogs should be familiar with the unreliability of academic descriptions, or, to state the case more charitably, the gap between aspirations and accomplishment. When undergraduates come to us for advice about graduate film programs, my colleagues and I are happy to share our knowledge, opinions and biases, but we very strongly recommend that they visit the school(s) to talk with both faculty and students. Similarly, when prospective applicants visit us, we insist that they talk with current students. In addition to the financial investment, there is the rather more serious investment of time, and applicants need to be absolutely sure that there is a very good fit between their needs and the capabilities of the graduate program. The other side of this issue is the need for film schools to be rigorous, precise and honest (I almost wrote "modest") and "up-front" about what they do best, adequately, inadequately, or not at all. -Henry Breitrose Dept. of Communication Stanford