<p>Does USC take into heavy consideration the major for which you're applying for?</p>
<p>I'd like to study at the Communication school, but according to Wikipedia, only 326 students were admitted of the 1876 that applied for 2007, with an average GPA of 4.1. That seems fairly competitive.</p>
<p>I put for my first-choice major Business Administration, and Public Relations as second-choice. But having thought more about it, I probably would switch the two.</p>
<p>But from those statistics, it looks like someone would have a better chance applying to the business school.</p>
<p>CLAS is probably the easiest school to get admitted to. I believe GroovyGeek's daughter was able to transfer to the Communication school easily from CLAS.</p>
<p>It was printed in an article on the SC website that the admit rate for CLAS this past year was 22%. </p>
<p>The Marshall School is a top ten business school. I think admission would be very competitive. </p>
<p>These are not confirmed by any official source, but I have heard admit rates for Cinema, Music, Theatre and certain other programs such as Computer Science-Games are in the single digits. If anyone has official figures, please post for the 2008 incoming class.</p>
<p>I haven't seen it in writing, but at the Explore USC sessions last year, the School of Cinematic Arts rep said their school's admissions run between 4 and 6%--perhaps the differential is per major within the film school? So that is:</p>
<p>CLAS -- 22%
SCA -- 4-6%
Annenberg (using figures by seanndurr above) -- 17%</p>
<p>It's easier to transfer into Annenberg as a Communications major. The Public Relations major is in the journalism school and really competitive to get into, but if you think you want to do it, I totally encourage it. It's a great program!</p>
<p>Would you say it's more competitive than Marshall?</p>
<p>Since the journalism school is considered one of the best in the country (and I think I read its admit rate is in the single digits, too), I'd say it's probably more competitive than the general Marshall school and just as competitive as some of its special programs.</p>
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<p>Wow, good memory... She was thinking of applying to COM but was not sure at the time of submitting the application, so she applied undecided. In the ensuing months her decision to do COM firmed up, so during orientation she went to the Annenberg office and asked what she needs to do. They told her to come back 24 hrs later, at which time she was officially transferred. They use the 24 hrs to review the request and make sure that the applicant would have made it with the regular process, so it is not a guaranteed thing, but I do not know how the rigor of the review compares.</p>
<p>^^ Thank you. That helps me out a lot.</p>