<p>Okay I can't believe how confusing this is...</p>
<p>so chappa called the film school and said:
"I called the cinema school and they said that the main admissions people at USC look at your application first and then pass it to the department with their "OK". The department admissions people then do their review knowing which applicants are acceptable to USC general admissions. The scholarship group acceptances have gone out. The rest of us are being reviewed now."</p>
<p>my best friend went to explore USC (i didn't hear this from her, but this is what she said): that the general admissions department and the individual school (film, music, theatre, business etc.) admissions department review our applications at the same time.</p>
<p>I emailed my USC summer session teacher and he even said that your app has to pass through the general school before being passed on to film for example. I mean why make them waste time on an app that doesn't even pass the basic USC criteria?</p>
<p>I know there has been a thread on this before, but no one ever came to a solid conclusion of how the admissions process really works, some people say one thing and some say another.</p>
<p>I think it has to pass through the school itself first. Chappa heard it from the film school and your summer session teacher said the same. That's two against one with credible sources. It's also the one that makes the most sense.
Probably won't be sure until it's over and then it won't matter anymore</p>
<p>thats sounds strange, seeing as how we all sent a supplement directly to the film school... im sure they review it at the same time, they cant wait for USC general admissions to get to all the film apps before looking at it, considering the supplements are much longer and more detailed</p>
<p>Makes sense, there are so many applicants, they probably only look at the ones that passed the regular admissions unless you are perhaps the child of George Lucas.</p>
<p>Also, many are accepted into USC but rejected from the film school. This happened to my sons roommate, he came to USC undeclared, but is very happy even though he couldn't get into the film school freshman year.</p>
<p>I don't think it would take much time for general admissions to make a quick review. One way they could do it is to just look at GPA's and scores to make sure you meet some kind University minimum. Since most of us probably submitted online it could probably done with the push of a button. If they were going to read all the essays that would take longer and I could see how that might slow things down for the departments.</p>
<p>imsilly has already gotten in with the possibility of a trustees scholarship so of course it doesn't matter to them. this is for people who haven't gotten in yet, and are really desperate for any kind of information.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, if USC accepts you, but not for your first or second choice majors (or colleges), do you get placed in a general education curriculum in the CLAS? (not sure if that's the right acronym, but w/e)</p>
<p>If you don't get accepted to your two first choice majors, but do get accepted to USC, you're automatically "undeclared" in CLAS - meaning your immediate goal is to complete GE requirements, yeah, while you pick a major.</p>
<p>jbusc probably knows more than me, - the only thing I know is that 2 freshmen that didn't get into their schools but were accepted into USC anyway (undeclared) found a major very quickly (by parents weekend in Oct). The only school that is virtually impossible to get into for an undeclared as a major is the film school. However, it is very easy to minor in the film school.
The two majors that the freshmen got into were Music Industry and Video Game design (at least this is what the parents told me.)</p>