…oops double post. typing too fast!
Anyone that got accepted as junior transfer?
If they were looking for specific performance, I just wish they would have let me in undecided in the meantime:(
@Trojan4u1001 Even if have a 4.0, good essays, good letters, good essays, and TTP, it does not make you a top applicant.
There are other deciding factors such as race, fit, and impression.
Also, your essays and recommendation letters are subjective, so the admission officers evaluate them based on their own impression. How do you know if they are “good” because admission officers might not think that they are that “good”.
@xoxo13 You’re non ttp and got in?
@ttpusclover I’m rooting for you. Hopefully, you can post you got in shortly. Hang in there!
For clarification from before, I’m a non-TTP sophomore applicant and I got an SGR.
I really appreciate your thoughts about essays and such, but (even though I still worked for weeks on my essays) my admission counselor said last year that essays do not matter much for transfer applicants, but he thinks I shouldn’t copy and paste them from my freshman application because I have grown as a student while in college. So that makes it sound like they don’t value essays that much…
I just checked my portal and I am still waiting for a decision. No SGR so far.
I have two friends who are also from Pepperdine applied last year and they both did not get SGR. However, they were both accepted. One got in by late June and the other one got in by early July. They were both admitted to Spring 2019.
The anxiety is real.
@ttpusclover I’m inclined to agree with what you and your admission counselor have said since my admission counselor as well as several other academic counselors I’ve contacted agreed regarding USC transfer applicants specifically. It’s wise to change your essays since they have a record of your previous app on file and submitting the same exact thing may imply laziness… but that’s more so speculation on my part.
Anyways! Let’s all try and stay patient since most of us will be hearing back by May 31st or even later 
@ttpusclover This is not true. Essays are very important in both freshman and transfer admission.
If you are a bottom applicant (Let’s say a 3.0 college GPA), your essays probably won’t help you a lot. They help, however, if you are close in getting admitted. Good essays will push you to an acceptance letter.
May I know your major and how many units you have?
Of course I changed my essays, and I worked very hard on them. (They were not even modeled after my high school ones, just to be clear). Just wanted to circulate what my counselor said!
@sagaciousforever My counselor also told me essays dont really matter much
I wonder if any rejections have been rolled out yet… I’m paranoid
@GotYa55 yes
@DDHH2017 I think essays matter less for transfers than freshman applicants. They are still important (just not as much). Essays and the short-questions are indicators for USC to see if you are a good fit for the Trojan family.
Otherwise, they would just accept all the good GPA applicants with good academic standing (units and transferable classes). What is the point of giving essays questions then? They would have just been taken away.
I’m at a point where I can’t focus on my real life because I’m so anxious? Will not having any recommendation letters affect my admission by a lot? I’m a junior transfer btw
@PokeBear Not at all. Recommendation letters are optional. They are not required so you do not have to worry.
However, good recommendation letters will increase your chance of getting in.
I asked one professor to do my academic letter and one professor to do my professional letter. I hope they will help.
Do not be too anxious just do your best !!! focus on what u r doing now improving yourself and GPA!!! just in case there might be another chance !!! sure u will be fine !!! good luck all of us