I got rejected from USC engineering, but I feel I should have gotten in. Is this actually worth it? They are going to ask for my mid-year grades and my most recent grades. My mid year grades are (88 calc AB, 81 IB physics SL, ~95 government / english / business internship). Current grades (1st 6 wks 88 calc, 81 phys, ~88 eng, 98 eco, 90 internship; 2nd 6 wks 90+ in all subjs). Below are my stast that i intially applied with:
1380 sat (670 M 710 V)
690 math2c 630 chem 630 writing
96/748 rank, 4.0 W gpa (5.0 IB scale, regular class 4.0)
impressive essay (mathematically described a brekdance move and related it to my life) / great EC’s (main hook is national breakdance champion and co-captain of school’s hiphop / breakdance team, TONS of volunteering / tutoring, job with citigroup (current employment); internships since I was 14 (in summers), wrote that I visited to india, sweden(with a man speaking at the nobel prize conference), amsterdam, japan.
counseler rec (good? counseler sorta dumb)
Should I even bother? Or just let it go. Thank you!
<p>Do they allow appeals? If they don't then they will just throw away your complaint. Even if they do, it'd still be pretty tough to get in with low SAT scores and HS grades and rank. I know that schools like national champions and stuff, but breakdancing just doesn't seem like that big of a hook that could make up for your grades/scores.</p>
<p>My sat score may not be that high, but it is above USC's avg, also their avg weighted gpa is 4.06, mines 4.0, it doesn't seem enough to reject me. They provide an appeal form with every rejection, so they do allow it.</p>
<p>if you don't have anything new to let usc know about, then its not worth the trouble. unless there's something that you didn't mention on your original application that you think might get you in, there's no use appealing 'cause they've made up their mind. last year only 13 people out of about 500 got in.</p>