At least one of the following, or a Black List Evaluation score of 7 or higher.
| Contests (Quarterfinalist or above): | Fellowships/Industry Lists: | MFA Programs: | ||
| Austin Film Festival | A List | AFI | ||
| BlueCat | Bitch List | BU | ||
| Final Draft Big Break | Blood List | Chapman | ||
| Humanitis New Voices | Brit List | Columbia | ||
| Imagine Impact | Cape List | DePaul | ||
| Nicholl Fellowship | CBS Writing Program | Emerson | ||
| PAGE | Disney Writing Program | FSU | ||
| Screencraft | Final Draft Big Break | Loyola Marymount | ||
| Scriptapalooza | HBO Access Fellowship | Northwestern | ||
| Script Pipeline | Imagine Impact | NYU | ||
| Shore Scripts | NBC Writers on the Verge | UCLA | ||
| SlamDance | Nickelodeon Writing Program | USC | ||
| Tracking Board | Sundance Lab | UT AUSTIN | ||
| Wescreenplay | The Veterans Writing Project | |||
| Universal Writers Program | ||||
| Warner Bros. Writers Workshop | ||||