According to USC's collegeboard profile, no one who attends the school had a...

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<p>GPA lower than 3.24?</p>

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<p>You can find it if you go to "How Do I Stack Up"</p>

<p>Basically, the breakdown is:</p>

<p>90% - 3.75+
8% - 3.5 - 3.74
2% - 3.25 - 3.49
0% - 3.0 - 3.24</p>

<p>I'm somewhat surprised. For the 3.0 - 3.24 range, I thought there would surely be a small percentage, considering that some schools are more rigorous than others. Even Stanford has at least 1% for the 3.0 - 3.24 range. Does this rule out chances for anyone in that range for 'sc</p>

<p>EDIT: Are they just considering the 3 years prior to applying, or the full four years? If it's the latter, then this might make a little more sense.</p>

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<p>USC does consider high school freshman year grades (I think that's what you meant.)</p>

<p>My guess is that the 90%, 8%, and 2% that they quote are rounded up. For example, maybe it was 89.6%, 7.7%, 1.7%. This would leave 1% for those lower GPA's (although it probably is less than 1%.)</p>

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<p>As cc411 mentioned, this can probably be attributed to rounding.</p>

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<p>These GPA's are all considered UNweighted right?</p>

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<p>Yes- unweighted GPA.</p>