What majors did you guys apply for? curious as to everyones first and second choice 
Iâm applying for Psychology, what about you?
I applied as a Neuroscience major as my first choice and Human Biology as my second choice. Im currently at a california community college. My GPA is a 3.6 and I have 7/8 GEâs from the core literacies done and will have 3/4 major requirements completed.
Do you guys know who to contact to find out if a course I took would meet one of USCâs reqs?
For transfer credit - If you are a current student there is an online form to request approval. If you are a transfer applicant which I assume is the case, at this point they are selecting scholarship recipients, selecting those to be admitted in March, and processing transfer applications. If you did not seek this info prior to applying, I am afraid this would be at the bottom of their priority list of things to do at this point in time. My guess is you wonât be getting an answer, it just isnât important to the decisions at hand, nothing personal, but ya have to look at it from their side. If you get in, if it is accepted, it will show up on your STARS report, if not, you can appeal to get it approved. To approve a course not already on an articulation agreement requires people in the specific department working with the transfer office and admissions, and would require submission of materials from the student. I just donât see that happening in what is arguably the busiest month for admissions at USC. Maybe someone else has had a different experience, this is just an opinion.
I have a class change to update with my admission counselor. Do you guys think it would be nice to tell her that I became a leader in the student council, and joined a research with a prof, after I submit the app in the same email? Or this sounds a little bragging and backfire me? What do you guys think?
@Alpinyo I agree with others as well. I know BU is a place that is hard to get a high GPA, even among other four-years. And from the stats of last yearâs thread, itâs entirely possible! Best of luck to you!
Does anyone know how much admissions takes the rigor of the applicantsâ current college into consideration?
Im applying to comm and PR for my second choice!
@blueskies2day Hmmm, I understand. Itâs just that this was a last minute decision to apply because of a health diagnosis of mine (mentioned in my app). And as a business major, they require MATH 118 or 125 as a pre-req for being accepted into Marshall. If they do not find that the course I took at my current institution would meet their course, I am automatically rejected. Would I then have to appeal my admissionâs decision, so I am able to bring this to their attention?
@ilovelamps Thatâs a good question! I remember talking with somebody last year that was a student at UCB. His GPA was slightly below the admitted average, but I figured USC would take into account that getting an A in a Berkley CS course is arguably harder than getting an A in a community college course. In my Java course at CC, the professor offered so much extra credit that I think my final grade was something like 150%! Very few CS professors at USC seem to like the idea of extra credit. The only one that I remember was for CSCI 201 and it was something like 0.25% on exams. It was definitely nothing as grade altering as what I experienced in CC.
Anyway, that guy got rejected. I felt terrible. Itâs hard to say how much they take the rigor of the college into account.
I think schools might also assume that someone going to UCB is already taken care of, while a CC student doesnât have anywhere to go.
@zettasyntax USC cares more about the type of person you are then (essays). and the grades in your classes/GPA are used because they want to make sure you can handle the course work.
Most people start hearing back around the last week of April and through the end of May right?
Honestly, I have no excuse. I was very sick during the final period of my last spring semester but that is not an excuse. I guess I just have to hope for the best. @instarae
I took at summer classes at another institution to get credits for Boston University. However, after the classes started I got an amazing fulltime internship opportunity so I stopped going to classes and it was too late the withdraw. One of the classes was attendance mandatory so I got an F, and in the other one attendance covered a great deal but not mandatory so I managed to get a B- by doing good on the exams hence got the credits. Now, I am freaking out that they will look down on those grades. What should I do? I forgot to mention this in my common application.
@Alpinyo i hope you explained your situation to them.
I did not. Is it too late now I already sent my common application? @Kvadhan789
@Alpinyo That is an important thing to forget to mention. You have to write them an e-mail with an explanation and ask them to attach it to your file. When admissions looks at your file to accept/decline you they will see that e-mail.
@Alpinyo Aw Iâm sorry. All I can say is to write a letter explaining exactly that and upload it to the You.usc application portal. Once you log in, click âSubmit Application Documents,â click âDocument Libraryâ and check the box that says âAdditional Info.â That should direct you to a page where you can upload your letter. Or you can email your regional representative. I wish you the best man, I hope everything works out in the end. Donât beat yourself up about this, the past is the past and that was completely out of your control. Iâm sure youâll succeed wherever you end up