<p>I’m right there with you Vinceh. As an alum, I have been very underwhelmed (and slightly embarrassed) by how the Admissions Office has handled everything this year. From promising a letter that was never received (in January) to very poor communication out of the Admissions Office. At least they could update their admissions blog once in a while. There has been either no communication or miscommunication from them. </p>
<p>Take a look at UVA’s Admission Blog to see an amazing example of how to do it right. They communicate very clearly, answer all questions, and they are a “highly selective” top CC College. What a class act! And yes, they do everyting electronically. They specify a date and time for the news release. You log into your account, check “stauts” and the result is there. Simple and saves everyone a lot of guessing about the mail delivery schedule. </p>
<p>The funny part is that I have known since March 15th that my daughter has been accepted to USC but we haven’t said a word to her as we want her to get the “big suprise” in the mail. We were initially told that the acceptance letters were being mailed the following Monday, then no - later that week, then this Monday for sure. It looks like it was finally done yesterday. The sad part is that she has pretty much lost interest in attending USC as the other schools have gone out of their way to court her . USC went from number 2 to a very distant third. </p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of you who become Trojans. Hopefully the Enrollment Office is managed much better than the Admissions Office.</p>
<p>USC has been very clear about when the letters would be mailed out. On 3-20-12 they posted this on their website “Letters of Admission will be mailed on March 27, 2012 to those accepted for the freshmen class entering in August 2012.”</p>
<p>There has been an entire topic on this subject (11 pages long since last checked) at: </p>
<p>I wonder if it was through another hs coach. That’s how Prodigyy11 found out early a few days ago.</p>
<p>I think there was some confusion because there were scholarship notificantions sent out and admission notifications. The confusion was on CC, USC has been clear.</p>
<p>I was told directly by someone in Admissions. They were expecting the acceptance letters to be mailed out the next day. </p>
<p>Unfortunately USC has not been clear in their communication. The confusion has come from USC as they stated that they sent scholarship letters (yes or no) to all who applied by the initial deadline. That did not happen. There were many individuals who did not receive the letters. Why bother sending a letter at all to people who were not getting anything and/or not expecting a response until late March? In regards to the March 27th date, that was just posted a few days ago, probably in response to all the rumors coming out of Admissions. Without going into a lot of detail, the way they handled the whole process was not at the level I would expect from the university. In comparison to the other universities we have dealt with, we are not impressed. </p>
<p>Bottom line- for me, I expected better from my Alma Mater.</p>
<p>Wow! I’m glad I found this thread, which is discussing my favorite topic: USC Admissions Department communication. If anyone happened to venture “cross town” to the UCLA threads a couple weeks ago, you know there was a lot of speculation about decisions being released the second Friday in March, as they had been the past 2 years. Since that fell on March 9 this year, it raised a lot of questions. UCLA posted on their web site that decisions would be released on March 23 in the evening via the Internet, which they were, and everyone knew at the same time what their status was (my son was admitted). Just drove to the post office today here in So Cal (we don’t have mail delivery to our house) to look for the USC notification: nothing. But let me tell you, it warms my heart to no end that someone was told personally of their child’s admission status BY AN ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR ON MARCH !5, and another student found out their status FROM TALKING TO THEIR COACH WHO TALKED TO AN ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR ON MARCH 26. I never thought I’d see the day when a government institution would so readily trump a private one in terms of execution on something so simple as a yes/no communication.</p>
<p>boomom, I can sympathize with your disappointment in the delays and uncertainties with admissions information. Some improvements happen every year, but that doesn’t mean a nervous applicant or parent finds it easy to deal with when their year is messed up. </p>
<p>A lot of the angst of the waiting for answers turns to anger at the messenger. That’s probably a normal response. But when selecting a university at which to study and live for four years, the quality of their email communications from an overburdened admissions department (a department, I should add, with which matriculated students will have no further dealings) is, frankly, short-sighted. Understandable, as I said. But often important decisions need to be made without the emotional drama. Over the course of several years, we see a lot of posts on cc from parents, and sometimes kids, who want to take it out on the adcoms who kept them waiting or lost their files or… other bad stuff. But in the end, what school, major, department will offer the best experience of a lifetime?</p>
<p>lovelybottles, I teach at UCLA, so please forgive me when I respond to your silly post. It’s not the one day in which you get your response. It’s the four years and beyond, as one’s school contacts and alumni help to forge a career. It may warm your heart that California’s almost bankrupt higher education system has spent $$ on admissions notification as they continue to cut classes and, I must add, enrollment numbers.</p>
<p>By the way, Prodigyy11, take a deep breath and relax. You’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, and congrats on your upcoming matriculation to a fine institution with an inept admissions office.</p>
<p>Boomom you stated that you were told directly by someone in Admissions. They were expecting the acceptance letters to be mailed out the next day. But letters did not go out the next day; they went out 12 days later (which has no bearing of why you were told).</p>
<p>There is definitely something wrong at the USC admission office staff if they gave you this information before anyone else. Are you a big contributor to USC?</p>
<p>Wow sukahjoy. Thanks for keeping the legend of alums receiving special treatment alive. That is NOT the case. I currently have 2 children attending USC. No special treatment or communication was given to our family. We are active and contributing alums.(3rd generation). We had to wait with the rest of the United States and the World.</p>
<p>lonelybottles, no bet. But I do think your emotions are getting the better of you. To feel glee about putting down a private school? What sort of UCLA- inferiority complex is this? </p>
<p>No one is denying universities need to do an excellent job of notifying applicants. But just to be clear, last year Cal accidentally posted all their decisions online for everyone to see. Everyone. Students could look up their friends by name and see if they had been admitted. Talk about invasion of privacy and, for those not admitted, a very sad way to learn the news. Does this mean someone should not send their student to UC Berkeley? Or should feel smirky over their mistakes? Of course not. It’s regrettable. But the folks running these departments are only… human, whether Bruin, Trojan or Cal Bear.</p>
<p>And Agent99, we hear many many stories to support your post. No special treatment. Many many disappointed Trojan families, too, when decisions are mailed.</p>
<p>No inferiority complex here, madbean. And, in fact, I am proud that my alma mater (UCLA’s Anderson School of Management) has gotten permission to go with a 100% private funding model, so they will look no different than Wharton or HBS. My hat’s off to Dean Olian for her creative problem solving in the face of the state’s budget crisis.</p>
<p>So I am a bit jealous that Prodigyy11 has his acceptance packet in hand and we still await word of my son’s fate. And it does make me wonder what yesterday looked like at the USC Admissions Office. They say there were 45,000 applicants. Let’s set aside that small cohort of scholarship recipients for the moment (that’s a whole OTHER story). If we assume a 20% acceptance rate, that’s 9000 “big” envelopes and 36,000 small envelopes. I’ll leave it to someone else to calculate the cost, but my question is, how much do those big envelopes weigh? How many fit inside a bin? 20? 40? Let’s say 45 to keep the math simple. That’s 200 bins. Did they hire a Brinks truck to get to the post office? Was there a 20 vehicle caravan down S. Figueroa? When they arrived, how long did they have to wait in line? Did the people behind them get mad? Was the guy behind the counter on his break? Did they hit their quota after the first 2000 packages? Maybe some of the applicants won’t hear till August. What if one of the packages got smudged? Did they have to go back and redo that one all over again?</p>
<p>Alas, questions, questions, questions, but no answers. Placido240 is right: where is Alamemom when we need her? Anybody got a batman flood light, or at least a bat phone?</p>
<p>I have heard there are a line of trucks, so your scenario is very close! Can you imagine the line of trucks needed for UCLA’s over 70,000 applicants! The worry that any of the admissions offices can keep any of the kids straight was the reason I was biting my nails last year. </p>
<p>As for wonderful Alamemom, she is keeping calm and, of course, reading all posts. This way she most likely is rooting for everyone (rah rah!) and able to avoid bopping anyone on the head who is posting mis-information. Perhaps I should join her.</p>
<p>no disrespect, but its hilarious how most people on here are talking about envelopes: how big they are, how they’re shipped, etc. This is not a math class. Everyone just needs to R-E-L-A-X…either way those who applied will get an envelope PERIOD. geez…<em>shrugs shoulders</em></p>
But I do think your emotions are getting the better of you. To feel glee about putting down a private school? What sort of UCLA- inferiority complex is this? </p>