<p>I am a transfer student who is hoping to attend the Marshall School of Business in fall of 2011. The application is due in two weeks and I was curious as to see what type of people Marshall specifically looks for. To clarify how should I describe myself or sell myself on the personal statement to attribute specific traits to my personality?</p>
<p>WHOA! havent checked this account in awhile now and didn’t know there were so many unanswered questions. SORRY! </p>
<p>I am not a USC Student anymore, but an alumni. HOWEVER, I am still more than happy to answer any questions anyone has since i AM ONLY 6 months removed from USC.</p>
<p>Student007:</p>
<p>It is DEFINITELY possible to double major in business and another major. Of course, some double majors are more feasible than others like business & accounting compared to business & engineering. As far as Business and the College, that is definitely possible and easily doable. Plus USC has a Renaissance Scholar Program that you can apply to your last year which is only for people that had 2 really opposite majors such as business and east asian studies. USC WANTS YOU TO DOUBLE MAJOR. If you are transferring, I highly recommend coming into Marshall first. When I started college four years ago, it was very simple to transfer into Marshall. Now, starting last year, there is a GPA requirement and a mandatory course requirement. Hope that answers your question.</p>
<p>DayDreamer23: </p>
<p>You know the great thing about USC is that there is no “specific type” of person that USC looks for when they are accepting candidates. I literally have friends that are on opposite spectrums when it comes to personalities and that is a great thing in my opinion. No matter what school you ever apply to NEVER TRY TO ANSWER AN ESSAY OR QUESTION WITH WHAT YOU THINK THE SCHOOL WANTS TO HEAR! I know it sounds cliche but from first hand experience with marshall admission directors and various other university directors they want to have a clear image of the type of person you are after reading your application the first time. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY THIS: THEY CAN SMELL BS FROM A HUNDRED MILES AWAY. If your answers to the questions sounds even remotely scripted they will know. Just be yourself and let the admission directors make a personal connection with you through reading the words of your personal statement. If you can do that, you have a great chance of getting into Marshall (if you have the grades too of course.)</p>
<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I’m a college sophomore who just got rejected from Haas/Business Major at Berkeley. I applied for Marshall in Feb. and I think I have a pretty good chance for getting in. I love Berkeley, but I don’t want to just do Econ because I didn’t get the business major. My main interests are in marketing and advertising and I think Marshall would provide more opportunities than Berkeley would…</p>
<p>But I LOVEEE Berkeley, and I don’t know if I would be a fit for USC’s culture. Can you tell me a bit more about what you know about transfer students to Marshall or what the work ethic is like at Marshall? And are there a lot of case competitions offered at Marshall? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>hi i will be a a sophomore transfer student if i do decide to transfer into usc. however, i got admitted with my second choice major, which is a east asian cultures and studies. im not too worried about getting into marshall as an internal transfer student if i work hard. however, i heard getting admitted into accounting from marshall is kinda hard. you kinda have to be on the upper half among the business majors to be an accounting major. i dont know about usc. but at pepperdine, accounting major is way harder than just business administration, and students who are accounting major are generally the smart ones at pepperdine. is that the same trend at usc? accounting harder than general business administration? right now im just afraid that i wont make it to be an accounting major if i do decide to transfer into usc.</p>
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<li>The last post in this thread was over a year ago. Make a new one.</li>
<li>Work on being coherent in your paragraphs.</li>
<li>Good Luck.</li>
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<p>Boredguy,
Give me an indepth take on the views of sigma chi, sae, and phi psi.
Thanks</p>
<p>I am an economics major in the liberal arts part of USC right now and I was wondering what classes would be ideal to take freshman year if I am trying to get into Marshall to become a business major? Thanks</p>
<p>Haha the OP basically listed all of the reasons I did NOT choose USC…</p>
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<li><p>Have already lived in LA and now want to live practically anywhere else. Riding a motorcycle to school every morning with fresh clean air and open roads is nicer than inhaling exhaust fumes all day and feeling like a sardine on an assembly line to nowhere.</p></li>
<li><p>Find it depressing that the world’s top academic institutions still, in 2012, spend millions of dollars on guys chasing inflatable balls. It just rips away the romance of being part of some top intellectual institution. Suddenly, it’s just a mundane place full of average people who drink beer and watch ball sports. Sigh…</p></li>
<li><p>I’m middle eastern myself and have always been totally perplexed by the ‘diversity’ thing Americans have. My school is mostly white & asian and I never wake up at 3 am crying because my life isn’t diverse enough. I guess you have to have american hippie parents or something. College diversity rankings?!? Who cares?!? I’ll never get it.</p></li>
<li><p>The last thing I want is getting a generic managerial position by schmoozing & buttkissing it up with frat boys, so the alumni network is a non-factor. Even the knowledge of how often that sort of incestuous business/econ alumni hiring takes place feels all dirty.</p></li>
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<p>Sorry you feel that way discoinferno. I’ll try to address some of your points.</p>
<p>1) I can see that. I left Downtown LA to work in a developing country because I was tired of the day to day rat race.</p>
<p>2) There are academics, business executives, celebrities, white collar professionals, blue collar professionals, and students who attend USC football tailgates and games. Have you been to one and randomly sat down and asked someone what they did for a living? Let me tell you: the last time I did that, that person was a partner in a law firm who attended Stanford. His daughter went to USC. Just because someone enjoys watching competitive sports and enjoying a beer doesn’t mean they are an average mundane idiot.</p>
<p>3) Diversity is important. Understanding and respecting other people’s backgrounds and cultures add to the educational experience. Sounds like you need to get out of your bubble.</p>
<p>4) Schmoozing and networking is a part of life. If you don’t do it with the frat boys or an alum, you’ll do it with your clients, boss, the middle executives and the C-level executives. If you don’t, you’ll have a difficult time moving up the ladder. You need to boost your emotional IQ and get off your high horse.</p>
<p>Why does there seem to be pockets of disdain for uSC, seemingly especially from UCLA and Stanford engineering types? Similarly, with an 18% admit rate and the SAT/ACT scores of USC students, how long do you think it might be before USC enjoys the acclaim it deserves, especially for undergraduate education?</p>
<p>discoinferno,</p>
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<li><p>You’ve experienced LA and want to try someplace new. Fine. Of course there are plenty of people from the wide-open spaces who are sick of them and want to experience opportunities a large city offers.</p></li>
<li><p>You don’t like football. Fine. Just don’t be so naive as to think that the student body will not get excited about the winning football team regardless of the level of competition. </p></li>
<li><p>You don’t value diversity. Fine. Much like point one, there are plenty of people who do.</p></li>
<li><p>There are very, very few occupations where advancement is solely based on merit - trading your own account in the commodities pits and professional sports are the only two I can think of off the top of my head. You are free to ignore the opportunities that friends, family, classmates and alumni connections offer you, but like it or not, networking is a fact of business life regardless of your chosen career.</p></li>
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<p>nextbigmoney,</p>
<p>First the bad news, I’m a parent of a USC rising sophomore. The good news, he took both Stats and Calc 1 as a freshman so I know a little bit about the grind. First of all, college classes are likely to feel much tougher than anything you experienced in high school. Material comes at you faster and there’s a lot less hand holding. That said, it’s impossible for anyone to tell you how tough you’re going to find these classes. If you have a mathematical bent as my son does they are pretty straightforward. Calc was definitely the harder of the two courses for him, but that seemed to be more instructor related than material. He attended the help sessions and sought out other support and got a B+. Stats, for him, was a breeze, got an A with only limited stress.</p>
<p>I’m currently an incoming junior in high school. My freshman grades were terrible, I got a 3.0 that year. First semester of my sophomore year, same thing, only worse. My GPA dropped from a 3.0, to a 2.8. I buckled down my second semester though and it is back at a 3.1 now. I know these grades aren’t great at all, especially in the competitive world today. I took the SAT my sophomore year as well, after the PSAT, and ended up getting a 1900. I plan to take it again and try to bring it up to a 2000-2100 my junior year. Entering my junior year I plan to keep straight As for the rest of my high school career. My four AP classes this year should really help my GPA. </p>
<p>I know that although my GPA is not strong as of now, improvement in the later years is always a good indicator of current study habits. </p>
<p>And my ECs include:
-President of SIMS club for the past 2 years.
-Competed at an international level for DECA.
-Varsity golf for the past two years (next two years as well).
-400+ hours of community service.
-Own my own MLM business with 50+ people working under me.</p>
<p>I’m very interested in attending a school for music composition, such as USC Thornton, NYU Steinhardt, Berklee, or Frost. I’m aware that an audition is mandatory and quite frankly, I am not all too worried about that. I would audition for piano, been playing since I could move my hands, and my theory is above average. Academically, however, I am concerned. I am not entirely sure how the admission process would work…? Could someone please explain this to me? Will an outstanding audition (piano) and interview be accounted for when applying to these schools? </p>
<p>When I apply to USC’s Thornton School of Music, for example, does that mean I’m applying to USC itself, or are they separate? Also, does a rock solid audition/interview have ANY weight on the admission process? If so, how much? Does it vary school to school? </p>
<p>What do you believe my chances of getting into one of these schools are, if I really buckle down this year? And if not those, what are some other more likely target schools I should apply to?</p>
<p>You apply for admission to the School of Music, but the Admissions Office has major input in your admit decision. But of course a huge factor, probably the most important one, will be the quality of your audition. </p>
<p>Occasionally you’ll see people posting on CC about how they want to use their musical talents to get admitted to a school well beyond their academic statistics. The concern from the admissions office is what would happen if you decided to change your major after admission? Are you capable of succeeding at the university from a strictly academic perspective? In that sense more "A"s are always going to help your case. I suspect that the more talented an artist you are the more leeway will be given to things like GPA; but this will require the school of music to ‘go to bat for you’. I don’t know if USC has minimum GPA thresholds for musicians, but if I had to guess 3.0 would be where I would start. With a junior year of 4.0s, an SAT of at least 2100 and a killer audition and I think you’ll be OK.</p>
<p>(first off, I’m sorry for bringing back an old thread, but since this was started by a Business Administration major, this is helpful)</p>
<p>so I’m applying for Marshall right now as we speak, and I’m still confused over the supplement for Marshall. Do all Marshall applicants have to do the supplement, or is it just purely for hopeful WBB’s (World Bachelor in Business)? The more I read the questions, the more I’m starting to think it’s just for WBB’s, but I’m not 100% sure.</p>
Hi - could you please comment on the easiest class to take in Marshal Business school. I am not a business major and I am trying to find the most manageable course in the business program. thank you
This thread was started by a student long graduated by now. The risk of resurrecting old threads is people reading through posts don’t realize how old they are and the info they find is incorrect because it is so outdated. I suggest making a new thread a little more broad like, “Easier classes at USC” then ask about one in business, or post in a more current thread.