I searched for “usc rhp” on Google, and I got someone’s blog as the 1st result. I found three other people who applied! Is there anyone else out there on these boards who applied or knows someone who has applied? I want to talk to you. Leave your e-mail and AIM screen name. If someone replies, I’ll leave my contact information.
-Sam
<p>i hope you get in sam</p>
<p>Haha, I do too. The lady at the admissions office called me today because I forgot to send my SAT I and II scores officially through the College Board. Oops! I sent my AP scores, and I guess I thought that my SAT scores would be included. I hate all these fees. 7 bucks for AP, and now 7 bucks for SAT, plus $24 because of rush reporting. $38 for ONE college! I hope my mistake does not count against me. Gosh, I do hope I get in so I can skip all the senior stress.</p>
<p>Anybody???</p>
<p>Me. It was my blog, after all :)</p>
<p>This seems to be the definitive topic on RHP: <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?5/44800%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?5/44800</a>
(from 2004)</p>
<p>I don't think I officially sent my SAT I and II scores through the College Board. They're nothing amazing, anyway..</p>
<p>They did call about my ACT scores, which I did send officially.</p>
<p>being that RHP is such a small program, which most people seem to have never heard of, it's not too shocking (but still mildly frustrating) that there is very little information about it on the web and fellow participants are even more scarce. i was RHP in 2001-2 and can say honestly that i still lack any conception as to what the experience entails on average-- its impossible to find any written feedback and the RHP "classes" each year are more like a diffuse nebula than a cohesive unit (though there are exceptions i'm sure). RHP is just destined to be shrouded in mystery i think.</p>
<p>What were the best/worst parts of your RHP experience?</p>
<p>Do you remember when you were notified of admission?</p>
<p>looking back, it's hard for me to isolate many outstanding elements of my USC experience that were related to my being RHP. it's true that i likely wouldn't have done thematic option if i werent, and i found the program truly excellent. i can't stress enough how interesting and challanging the curriculum is, and the professors teaching these courses are amazingly accomplished, ambitious, and insightfu people. my older brother and i have the same SATs but he went throughthe normal admissions process and ended up at Brown-- and hated it. he was shocked at how self-satisfied and unimaginative the professors were, and he didn't think the student body was particularily dynamic or intellectual engaged either. the students in TO frankly have the same stats but have more to prove, so the motivation among the students to distinguish themselves as a capable, first rate bunch is high. if anything, kids in TO take themselves too seriously but i would say thats preferable to smugness or apathy. on the other hand, an unfortunate aspect of being RHP is living in the Deans' Halls. while i can appreciate my fellow honors students scholastically, and while TO has in truth been the source of the vast majority of my closest (and incidentally most intelligent) friends, the honors "community" in the social sense is really isolated and eccentric in a boring rather than interesting way. especially aweful was living in Marks' Hall, where there are only two floors and fully half the population is RHP-- a true recipe for disaster. the RHP in the other hall managed to escape the pull of this insular, immature culture which was marked mostly by ruthless competition and inane cliqueishness that is impossible to extricate oneself from because its virtually impossible to meet other people. the other hall is much bigger and thus less microcosmic. </p>
<p>as for admissions, they do it on a rolling basis. they generally admit the candidates that they are less sure will attend or who are most likely to need financial aid/ get a scholarship first (late December/ January). during in March they let in the majority of their choices, typically the strongest and best-fit applicants in terms of test-scores and GPA (ensuring the averages remain stellar). if you don't hear until April, then the liklihood is that your extracurriculars are the defining factor in their decision, and they are by this point trying to fill in various niches (leaders, activists, etc) in order to bring balance to the class. these students generally have lower test scores (low 1400s) than the final batch. the last batch are admitted as space permits, and are not necessarily inferior students but who don't add anything specific to the group.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. Does the rolling basis also apply to the Resident Honors Program?</p>
<p>How do they admit "as space permits" (how much space is there)? Since the deadline is past (so everyone who will apply has applied), don't they know how many people there are vs. how much space there is?</p>