<p>"Student selectivity is sharply increasing, with 38,000 applicants for just 2,600 seats in last year’s freshman class and 45,000 applicants for this fall."</p>
<p>President</a> Nikias Speaks to USC Faculty - USC News</p>
<p>Any projections on the admission rate?</p>
<p>Somewhere elsewhere on CC the speculation is around 17%. Essentially, bypassing Vanderbilt and moving towards Duke selectivity level.</p>
<p>If USC follows its normal patter of admitting ~8500 the admit rate would be 18.8%. The only way that I could see USC admitting less is if they were confident that their yield rate will be much higher. I am positive the yield will be higher this year due to the handful of new scholarships available, but 17% admission rate seems like a bit of a stretch.</p>
<p>17% is what the Dean of Admissions estimated. </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1287398-excerpts-email-dean-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1287398-excerpts-email-dean-admissions.html</a></p>
<p>If you notice that the 17% was not quoted by the dean of admission, but by the OP. The dean said it was just over 45,000 applicants and they are planning to accept roughly the same number as last year, which was 8,566. So, given the facts, 8500/45000 = 18.8% accepted. The math of the OP of that thread was off. Nevertheless the admit is the lowest in USC history and is extremely respectable along the lines of Vandy, Rice, Emory, and Notre Dame.</p>
<p><19% is still impressive. Above rival UCLA? We shall see! (yes, apples and oranges, but they are competing and compared often)
USC is like a rocket, but there was definitely a big boost from adding the Common App this year.
Columbia experienced this last year, and their applicant numbers are a little softer this year, so a snap-back of some magnitude is likely for USC next year.</p>
<p>So silly that this USC is not on CC Top Colleges List…</p>
<p>“So silly that this USC is not on CC Top Colleges List…”</p>
<p>yup! but those who run C are apparently blind, deaf and dumb with regard to changing in their out of date list of “top” colleges.
why this is, I really dont know…</p>
<p>I looked on US NEWS to see where USC might land due to the newly found information. It seems that USC may be on par wit Cornell. </p>
<p>Current US NEWS data:</p>
<p>USC
Students
17,380 enrolled
Admissions
24.4% accepted
2010 Endowment<br>
$2,947,978,000
Test Scores
SAT Critical Reading: 610 - 720
SAT Math: 670 - 770
SAT Writing: 650 - 740<br>
ACT Composite: 29 - 33</p>
<p>Keep in mind that USC raised 1.4 billion in 2011 so 2012 endowment will reflect around 4.3 billion. SAT scores usually go up around 10 to 20 points each year. So, with that and the 18.8% acceptance rate it will look a lot like Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell
Students
13,935 enrolled
Admissions
18.4% accepted
2010 Endowment<br>
$4,378,587,236
Test Scores
SAT Critical Reading: 630 - 730
SAT Math: 670 - 770<br>
SAT Writing: - -
ACT Composite: 29 - 33</p>
<p>Does it say anywhere how many applicants they received for transfers?</p>
<p>no not yet</p>
<p>^^^Those numbers are great, ModernMan. After this selectivity boost those #'s will only increase more- and who wants to live in Ithaca when you could live in Socal?</p>
<p>Modern Man,
The data from U.S. News is always from the previous year. For the class that entered in August 2011 the admit rate was 23%. Admit rate has varied slightly in recent years.</p>
<p>2008-Admit rate 22%
2010-Admit rate 24%
2011-Admit rate 23%</p>
<p>There have been no numbers released about transfer applications for 2012. Last year SC had 9611 applicants to transfer. Average college GPA was 3.7.</p>
<p>Last year 14% of the freshmen enrolled were the first in their family to attend college.</p>
<p>“USC also offers the nation’s largest pool of financial aid at $235 million a year - a figure that has grown in spite of economic hard times. Three years ago, he said, that pool was $185 million.”</p>
<p>" This year we will award $166 million in need-based scholarships to more than sixty percent of our students. Just in the past five years we have increased our financial aid by over 70 percent, enhancing our program to ensure the affordability of a Harvard education even in these challenging economic times. "</p>
<p>[Financial</a> Aid Office](<a href=“http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do]Financial”>http://www.fao.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do)</p>
<p>USC vs. Stanford - the decision is a difficult one. Stanford EA full freight vs. a potential Trustee at USC. I am torn between the two. One would mean a financial strain on my family vs. the other could be a lot less. Does the reputation of graduating from Stanford really equate to that much more value? I am disappointed to see USC not on the CC selective colleges list. Any advice?</p>
<p>^ I am really curious to see what people have to say about that question, because both USC and Stanford offer incredible opportunities. USC with its amazing faculty and L.A. location, Stanford with its world-wide prestige and glamor upon one look at its name.</p>
<p>Right now, I feel that USC is a great place to learn how to take the initiative and how to be independent. Opportunities are there, but not everybody takes them. And, being in So Cal, it’s no wonder USC is ranked as a top party school. But every college has its ups and downs. I guess it all depends on WHAT you do with your education at the end of the day.</p>
<p>I would say that Stanford is beyond national, really now a global schooll.
USC is still more of a local school, with a more concentrated (more Asian?) international reputation.
Thoughts?</p>
<p>Marcus,
SC is not named on any list of party schools.</p>
<p>Exactly. USC isn’t on any party list or rank.</p>
<p>The Chronicle of Higher Education this month noted SC’s endowment grew 19.3% between 2010 and 2011.</p>
<p>desertscholar - please do not allow the listing system of College Confidential to influence such an important decision. The “cc top colleges” list was simply a list established when college confidential was first started and it has not been changed since. The reason they give for not changing it is that if they started making changes in response to changes in rankings or other factors, they would be deluged with demands from posters that they make changes with every minute change in rank on every conceivable rankings list on the planet.</p>
<p>And… CONGRATULATIONS on a wonderful, if wrenching, decision! I am sure you will gather all the information and make the best decision for you and your family - you cannot go wrong!</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>