Would appealing to USC hurt my chances of transferring the next year?
No it definitely wouldn’t
Nope. I appealed and when I tried to apply to USC again the next year, I was accepted. I like to think they admire the perseverance/the ability to “fight on”. I actually used something like that in the ending line of my admissions essay the second time I applied. It was probably cheesy as heck, but maybe they liked it.
Is there a deadline to send an appeal or should we just do it ASAP