<p>Has anyone received an email confirming USC's receipt of your application?
Do your recommendations and reports say "downloaded" or just "submitted?"</p>
<p>Wow! You are prompt! It may be a while before everything is downloaded, since USC’s application deadline is still a month away.</p>
<p>Congratulations on being on top of things! It will be hard to be patient while you wait for April 1st.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>The usc website says that applicants should contact them if they have not received usc connect login info five business days after submitting the common app and supplement.
I can be patient but do not want to wait until April to find out they never got the application due to a common app glitch.</p>
<p>If you are nervous about a Common App g;itch, by all means follow the website instructions and contact USC admissions. The good news is that there remains more than a month before the USC scholarship deadline so there is no need to panic.</p>
<p>Again, at this point (more than a month before the deadline) it is unlikely that USC admissions staff is downloading on a daily basis, so it will likely continue to show as submitted for a week or more.</p>
<p>I am sorry that you are already under so much stress this early in the application process. Try not to get caught up in the daily-application-status-check-cycle. It will drive you crazy and make that wait for April unbearable.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>We have also not received any confirmation of receipt from USC. I followed the website instructions and meet heard back. A rep will be at D’s school today so maybe we will know more later. If not, I will put a call in.</p>
<p>Thanks. Not stressed, just wondering b/c at a Discover USC event, they said that they were already reviewing applications. Every application in the dashboard shows “downloaded” except USC and LMU - so maybe it is a CA thing?!</p>
<p>Thanks! Please let me know.</p>
<p>Where does it say downloaded? Haven’t seen that. She didn’t get to visit with rep bc of a test. I plan to call USC tomorrow.</p>
<p>I agree with the tone above, relax. It is October for goodness sake, this isn’t a race. Give admissions a break - with 10s of thousands of applications, things take time. Get use to waiting for admissions to respond and the common app to download at every school. And enjoy the fact you are so early in the process. These admissions departments are only a handful of people, this is not like a call center at an airline with people just waiting to answer a phone. The more each person calls to check when it really isn’t necessary, the more the process is delayed for everyone. We applied to many schools and I clearly remember things taking time to clear through the common app. Some schools don’t download till much later, some wait till close to their deadline, just how it is. But it all ends up working out. Since you have time, perhaps an email is more efficient if you just have to know something.</p>
<p>I would have to agree. They’re getting over 43,000 applications if last year is a guide. One more thing - don’t have your parents, admissions rep, or other adult call to check on your behalf. I’m in interview season for my college. We take less than 10% of the applicants and I’ve already had to explain to “adults” that call me to “schedule” interviews or check on applications status that their action labels a student as not being able to handle college without adult supervision. </p>
<p>NY Mom - I just spent a half hour on the phone with another “mom”. Calling for your child labels you a helicopter parent at most competitive colleges. At a time when colleges are looking for reasons to put students in the “no” pile so they can whittle down to the final list, don’t be the reason that happens to yours.</p>
<p>In college admissions, parents should be neither seen or heard except as it pertains to financial aid form questions or on campus tours where you indicate you’re fully supportive. </p>
<p>Forewarned is forearmed. Your child is competing against students from all over the world - most of whom are demonstrating that they can manage this process on their own.</p>
<p>(btw - other than a meeting at a college fair two years prior, my D’s schedule and location precluded an in person interview. She tried, but the schedule was fully booked with the local reps. She did, however, visit the campus - it worked out just fine. So you can relax).</p>
<p>Relax folks, I’m not a helicopter parent. I had planned to call because she hadn’t received a way to login so she could check the application status herself. There is a specific number for that issue. My kid is hearing impaired and isn’t always comfortable on the phone.</p>
<p>I don’t think the comments were aimed specifically at you but it was just a good thread to bring up the issue of parents handling too much of their kid’s business. A&L is giving good info there. Yours may be a special circumstance, but in most cases asking these questions is a chance for the student’s character and responsibility to shine through. It’s not long before registering for classes is all on them, so this is good practice learning how to work the system.</p>
<p>NYMom - common app now shows that the recommendations and guidance report have been “downloaded.” You can see that under the individual college where it says “assign recommenders.” Although the USC connect info may be delayed a while, at least the application has been received and there was no glitch.</p>
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Great news! Now there is one thing you do not have to worry about in the long, stressful application season.</p>
<p>It is important to remember that the USC admissions staff is currently on the road to hotels across the country conducting admissions interviews* and will not be full-force at their desks at USC until December. As mentioned previously, downloading will likely not occur on a daily basis at this point.</p>
<p>*If you did not schedule an admissions interview, don’t worry. USC admissions interviews are not required. Now that I have mentioned interviews, I feel compelled to reassure those who did not schedule them not to worry:
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<p>Good luck, and - applicants and parents alike - try not to worry too much. I know the college admissions season is a stressful, very long process, but believe it or not it will work out. Keep an open mind about where you will attend and don’t hurry your decision. Bask in the excitement of your acceptances and allow the disappointment of rejections to fade before sitting down to look at all the opportunities and make a final, well-considered decision. Had my daughter committed to her then first-choice school (not USC) when she was accepted in November with a nice scholarship, she would never have thoroughly investigated and grown to love the school she ultimately chose on May 1st - USC. 
YOUR perfect school may come as a surprise to you as well.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>