<p>Is anybody appealing? I know the its pretty unlikely, but what the hell, it doesn't seem that hard. I don't know what new stuff to put tho. What are other ppl saying? I need to send it out tomarrow, so the sooner the better please!!</p>
<p>I am going to. At least if i don't get in they'll see I am serious about going and maybe it will help me out when transferring. Did you get that paper about appealing with your rejection letter?</p>
<p>I did. Didn't everybody? I'm appealing too. I have a couple new extra currivular activites, but I don't have any new academic news for them.</p>
<p>I'm appealing, and I added a lot of things besides the letter for added impressiveness. It's a big envelope...</p>
<p>What did you guys do?</p>
<p>if you appealed...did your application status change?</p>
<p>mine did and i was wondering if it changed for anyone else. it's on another thread. the paragraph from the original "3/29" acted upon date changed too. so it's a new paragraph and it says it was last updated 4/10. anybody get the same thing?</p>
<p>mine hasnt changed since 3/29. But i sent my appeal on saturday, so maybe they havent gotten it yet? What kind of new things did u add? i didnt have anything impressive..</p>
<p>I handed in mine personally today, and my status time changed to today's date, 4:39 PM.</p>
<p>However, let's not get ourselves worked up on these status changes again. USC explicitly states they're letting us know May 15th.</p>
<p>Hmm.. has anyone that has appealed in the past received notification BEFORE the date USC gave?</p>
<p>bunkey- i don't know if my things were impressive either...but i just included that some of my grades were missing (3 A's) and one of the classes i'm taking right now didn't show up (AP psych.) i forgot to talk about my volunteering on the application (stupid...i know) so i talked about how i volunteered to coach little boys' soccer teams...and lastly i emphasized how much time my EC took to give reason for not a 4.0.</p>
<p>hopefully it works..but i've braced myself for another rejection. what about your basis??</p>
<p>and the only person i know to hear before the deadline had a "special circumstance" (an athlete not marked as recrutied) but other than that i don't know...i know last year they heard before the May 1st deadline though.</p>
<p>By "May 1st deadline," do you mean that USC indicated that they'd inform people before May 1st? Or are you referring to submitting SIR's to other schoolsby May 1st?</p>
<p>i meant USC notified students who appealed prior to the SIR May 1st deadline last year. i think they heard around the 26th or 27th. i wonder why it was pushed back so far this year. i hope it's not because they're going to be way more strict. can i ask what your basis for appealing was??</p>
<p>can you appeal at usc? is there a defined process or just write a letter to the dean?</p>
<p>still no status change update. that would be cool if they told us by may 1st. i didnt really have a big reason for appealing, i just included like more volunteering stuff (just reached 200 hrs), that school is in top 2% of US highschools, so is hard to get good grades, my act is above avg, aunt is alumni (which i didnt say in the main application, but called the other day and they said i should include it), so i dunno little things like that. i'm not counting on getting in, i just wanted a little bit of hope (couldnt accept going to davis or ucsb or bu or where ever i got in just yet cause dont really love any of them)</p>
<p>DukeBlueDevils, all appeal info was included on a paper that came in the rejection envelope -- the process was simply write a statement, include up to 2 letters of rec, and up-to-date transcript. The deadline for them receiving it was yesterday, though.</p>
<p>^oh sorry i didn't mean to mislead you, i was accepted back in march. i was just curious if usc (private university) had an appeals process...interesting.</p>
<p>I put in a lot of stuff... Big manila envelope... Besides saying how much I want to go, and that I will transfer if needed, I went into more depth on a few things... I had mentioned that I had arranged music for my band at school, and that I had made a few computer games, but for the appeal I included the musical scores for some of the music, the code for some of the games, and a cd with the video of the performance of some of the music as well as the game executables...</p>
<p>did you guys who are appealing think you were gonna get in? was usc a stretch for you based on your SATs and GPA? i got a 32, which is on the higher side of the avg, and my gpa is average, like a 3.7 unw i think. Are you guys similar to that?</p>
<p>Nah, I'm a bit higher on tests cores but a bit lower on GPA. What did you do in your appeal?</p>
<p>I have this big long series of ideas that have me convinced its easier to appeal this year, but I am likely just fooling myself.</p>
<p>why do u think its easier to appeal this year?</p>
<p>yeah i would like to hear them too.</p>
<p>They admitted 8500 last year for 2600 spots, and they had 2900 attend. The appeals were 41 of 626.</p>
<p>This year they accepted 7500ish for 2600 spots. I think that they will have less than 2600 attend, as every year the number of colleges people apply to increases. Plus I know a lot of people who were going to go but can't due to worries over being able to afford it because of the economy.</p>