@kvavava It would be a good idea to commit to a school you wouldn’t mind attending if you don’t get into USC. Not all people are lucky enough to receive a decision before the SIR deadline for certain schools. I committed to UCLA just days before I got my acceptance to USC. Since it was June 7th when I got my USC acceptance, I would have missed a chance to have a backup school. It’s great to place all your bets on USC, but nothing is a sure thing so it’s good to be safe about such things. In the worst case, you might just have to eat the cost of submitting the SIR. Doesn’t seem as bad as having nowhere to go if USC doesn’t work out.
@zettasyntax okay that’s what i thought. thanks for confirming!
So i was just rejected for freshman admissions, and id like to keep my options open for a transfer. Most likely ill be attending an out of state private, and i was curious if USC gives preference to community college or California community college applicants like the UC schools do.
@shafhalf Yes, approximately 50% of accepted transfer students come from CCC’s. Best of luck!
@shafthalf No USC doesn’t give preference to CCCs because it’s a private college. CCCs have an advantage only because they have articulation agreements with USC so there’s a list of classes that’re guaranteed to transfer to USC.
I think the main advantage of cccs is that USC knows those schools well. As a result they know if the school has grade inflation, or not.
@NotLonelyIsland According to USC’s transfer guide, 50% of their transfers come from a CA community college. Here is the link to it:
Do GPA transfer?
@SmartJarhead Yup I know, but that doesn’t mean they give preference to them in admission. UCs give CC students priority and explicitly say that on their admissions website http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/index.html. It’s at 50% because most students that are looking to transfer are from community colleges anyway. Totally agree that it’s easier to transfer in this way though because of the articulation agreements and you’re not locked into any course sequences that 4-year schools make you take. I go to a CCC too 
. Just tryna say that if one applicant is from a 4-year and one’s from a CC, the CC kid doesn’t have any advantage just because they go to a CC.
@NotLonelyIsland Yeah that makes sense
Hey everyone, so I am very close with a teacher that I have known for years and just so happens to be a USC graduate along with her husband and she offered me to write a letter a rec. Does this help at all?
Hey everyone, so I am very close with a teacher that I have known for years and just so happens to be a USC graduate along with her husband and she offered me to write a letter a rec. Does this help at all?
I am in the same boat. If you found info on that would you lease let me know.
I saw that the freshman admin rate dropped to 13. Does this mean the transfer rate will drop significantly this year?
@ernesto98 Not really. Transfer admission depends on how many vacancies are available. This years freshmen class received the highest number of applicants which is why it was more selective than previous years.
@Alpinyo Your GPA doesn’t transfer in a fun way. They keep record of it and only bring it out come graduation time. When determining honors, they go by your USC GPA or your CC/transfer GPA + USC GPA. Whichever GPA is lower, that’s the GPA they use to decide if you get honors or not.
@Elena1355 thank you
@CADREAMIN do you think that there’s any chance of a package tomorrow? I live in the 1 day zone
Does anyone know when the first wave of admission decisions will be?
@csumit I really don’t know. They had such a large application pool to process for regular admissions and they had a couple technical glitches with scholarship decisions (and I thinks some reg decision portals are still screwy) so that may impact other stuff getting out there in a timely fashion. If I hear more I will be sure to post about it!