<p>3.0 GPA
26 ACT
A few ECs</p>
<p>..Now I know what you guys are thinking, why the hell is he applying to USC with such a disadvantage. Well unfortunately I'm going to have the same excuse as everyone else, I'm a smart kid who messed around too much during their high school years. USC is my top school and I was just wondering if it would even be worth it to apply?</p>
<p>Also I'm out of state but have multiple family members who went to SC</p>
<p>I’d definitely say it’s worth it to at least try, especially since you have the alumni relations. Write your essay about where you went wrong and make it stellar, and you’ll have a chance!</p>
<p>Thanks for your input :)</p>
<p>U South Carolina: Low match
U Southern California: Reach</p>
<p>Thanks, and I’m referring to University of Southern California :)!</p>
<p>I personally think it is out of reach. I always try to be encouraging, but unless if you have super hooks such as a dad-donated-millions story or a tear-inducing essay about being in a single-parent household with autistic brother, and are a URM athlete and chess champion, I would not bother. </p>
<p>Try a CC transfer.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input. I’ve already been accepted CU Boulder so that’s where I’ll most likely end up, and the problem with a CC is that I currently live in Texas so going to a California CC and transferring wouldn’t be my ideal plan.</p>
<p>“I’m a smart kid who messed around too much during their high school years.”
If this were really the case, then you would have a high ACT, and you do not. Legacy and paying full tuition would help, but I don’t think it’s enough in this case. Sorry, but a 3.0 GPA in high school is practically failing at a school like USC.</p>
<p>I didn’t think a 26 my first time was too awful…</p>
<p>But I understand your post of course, I’m aware of where I stand in USC’s placement as I stated earlier.</p>
<p>But… maybe you could do well in CU-Boulder and then attempt to transfer into USC!</p>
<p>It’ll be hard to transfer from one OOS University to another…but who knows it could happen! Even if it doesn’t I wont be discouraged or anything, CU is a great school and I’m excited to go there :)</p>
<p>It never hurts to try!</p>
<p>It’s a reach, but you never know.
Chance me
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1418462-my-final-chance-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1418462-my-final-chance-thread.html</a></p>
<p>Schedule an interview and try to woo them there. Hopefully you can excel.</p>
<p>Thanks! Calling them for an interview doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all!</p>