Chance Me: USC? (Please and thanks!)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I am interested in USC for the Business Administration program. </p>

<p>1740 SAT 1st time (Bad day, but no excuses. Just plan to do better.)
Definitely retaking in June.
ACT to be taken in June as well...</p>

<p>GPA: 3.95
Can't calculate unweighted based off the way my school grades.</p>

<p>Eighth Grade: German 1 (basically honors)</p>

<p>Freshman:
Honors English
German 2 (Basically honors)</p>

<p>Sophomore:
AP World History (3 on exam)
Honors Algebra 2
Honors English
Honors/AP Biology</p>

<p>Junior:
Honors Trigonometry
Honors Pre-Calculus
AP Microeconomics
AP English Language/Composition
AP Environmental</p>

<p>Senior:
AP Government
AP English Literature
AP Calculus AB</p>

<p>Total Honors Classes: 6
Total AP Classes: 8</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
FBLA (President, officer 4 years)
Soccer (coaching 5 years)
Youth Group (Vice President & Co-Founder)
Girl Scouts (8 years, Treasurer)
Varsity Tennis (1 year)
Played soccer 13 years
Leo Club Member
SADD Member
Diversity Club Member
Work 25 hours a week in school, 40 in summer to support family</p>

<p>First Generation College Student
Low-Income Family
From Pennsylvania (out-of-state)</p>

<p>Notes: Parents very unstable, neither graduated college. Financially I payed half of the bills throughout high school. Basically responsible for raising 2 younger sisters.</p>

<p>Anything else, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading this!</p>

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<p>My D was rejected by USC this year. A little bit surprise but no much. She got in to UCLA and UCB though.</p>

<p>She has 2270 (superscore) SAT and 34 ACT. 6 APs (4 or 5) in Sophomore & Junior. GPA 3.9x. Not so excited ECs. </p>

<p>You stats is bit low. Hope you can get up to 2000 SAT to increase your chance. USC business is not easy to get into. However, you have other background story that may help. </p>

<p>Please do check the USC threads in CC. You will find a lot of useful information.</p>

<p>HOWEVER, USC is a private school. The COA is > $60K. Unless you are good enough to get those few full ride/tuition scholarships (stamp, mocks…etc), it will cost you a fortune to study there. Don’t ignore this point (finance). Many do accepted, but cannot afford to go.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>USC Marshall: Reach</p>

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<p>You need to do a lot better in test score.</p>

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<p>Aim for 31+/2100+…</p>

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<p>So other than SAT, it seems as if I’m doing decent. Thanks!</p>

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<p>3.95 weighted GPA doesn’t really mean anything. You definitely need to find out what your unweighted GPA is because USC usually looks for a 3.8/3.9 unweighted, especially for the business program.</p>

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<p>I must have mistyped. That’s our unweighted, we don’t calculate weighted here.</p>

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<p>Then yes you were correct! Despite your test scores, you seem to be in a good place stats wise.</p>

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<p>Thank you! I’m hoping to take an SAT class, hopefully that helps!</p>

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<p>Yeah, I’ve seen that too. My essays are going to probably be one of my stronger points, I have a lot of back story that’s important.</p>

<p>Thank you! :)</p>