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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Stats:</p>

<p>-African-American Female
-SAT: 1830 (1240 cr+m)
-ACT: Haven't gotten a score back...should be around 27
-GPA: 3.53 UW
-School: Private Catholic</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars:</p>

<p>Varsity Cheerleading: co-captain, 3 varsity letters, 4 awards, 60 community service hours.</p>

<p>Red Cross Club: president; first major project is the Measles Initiative - selling pins to raise money to have people vaccinated for measles</p>

<p>SAA Club: leader; organizing a spring break service trip to New Orleans to rebuild houses for Katrina survivors :)</p>

<p>African-American Summit Committee: Chair of Speakers Committee, organized a to-drive for Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. We raised over 50 toys!</p>

<p>Operation Keep Em’ Warm and Fed: Serve breakfast and converse with homeless people on the streets of Tacoma once a month. I also volunteered at charity dinner that benefits this program.</p>

<p>FIF: Student leadership program at school.</p>

<p>Volunteer Service:</p>

<p>Red Cross: Youth Chairman, volunteer for 4 summers, organized a project to make goody bags for deploying soldiers. 300 hours of volunteering.</p>

<p>Service trip to New Orleans. 40 hours of volunteer work. I wrote and published a newspaper article about my service work in my city's newspaper.</p>

<p>During my trip to New Orleans I created a blog so my friends could follow along as I wrote about the events that occurred during my service trip. </p>

<p>Other:
Essays: Unique topic, reveals a very interesting and touching story about my mother. Ties in compassion, the importance of helping others/my inspiration for volunteering, the power of fate, and family values in one cohesive essay. </p>

<p>Recommendations: Good</p>

<p>Grades: Transition from a public middle school to a competitive high school resulted in low grades my freshman years. However, I've had an upward trend and remained consistent in taking honors/AP classes ALL four years of high-school. Even though school was hard for me in the beginning, I still love to learn and wanted to challenge myself by taking rigorous courses.</p>

<p>Future Plans: I want to study Journalism and Pre-med. The ultimate plan is to become an Emergency Room Doctor and write articles about my future service trips to hopefully inspire others to volunteer.</p>

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<p>Realistically I wouldn’t apply if I were you. Use your money on another application.</p>

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<p>The info in this might give you a good idea of the average scores.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1011/FreshmanProfile2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>your CR+M score would be below the 25th percentile for admits, but quite close to the 25th percentile among people who actually choose to enroll. SAT scores aren’t the only consideration for admission. But hypothetically, even if you were in the 5th percentile, USC admits more than 8000 people and over 300 people with stats lower than yours would get in. </p>

<p>USC would still be a reach, but you’re supposed to apply to one or two “reach” schools. I’ve read that colleges look favorably on applicants in challenging schools whose grades have improved throughout high school. It proves that you challenge yourself and that you’re working hard. Your volunteer service is really impressive. Get a teacher’s help and make your essay stand out. If USC is your dream school, you should go for it!</p>