<p>like<em>a</em>willow - Sounds like my own story of having USC bumped way up. You don't really feel it until you get down there. Funny how a lot of us are applying to the same schools huh?</p>
<p>cheerchick012- Sounds good, I'll brainstorm some basic ideas I guess. Don't want to overprepare and have it sound fake though I guess.</p>
<p>Same goes for me. NYU was before USC, but once I got there, I put it before NYU.</p>
<p>Me too!! NYU was before USC...but now USC is top...haha</p>
<p>Only prob is my SAT was so badd...i took it first time in Oct and got 1750 0_0...i really have to do well in dec...or else.....</p>
<p>saeraxD!!! you got in to RHP and didn't go?? Just curious, what happened? omg..that program is soo 1337! If you got into that program last year, doesn't that almost guarantee you into getting in this year?</p>
<p>Exactly, forgottenhawk. God, reading this thread I feel like we're all applying to the exact same schools. Northwestern? Stanford? NYU? Welcome to my college list. Hopefully, we'll all get in to every one of them and end up in the X vs. Y vs. Z threads together in April.</p>
<p>lolz i love the "X vs Y vs Z threads"</p>
<p>Yeah. I'm applying to Stanford, Yale, Columbia, USC, NYU, Boston University, and the University of Dallas. In order of how much I want to go there. My SAT scores are horrible, though. I got an 1850 and even though I re-took it, I feel I did worse.</p>
<p>When you guys put it that way...lol, maybe we should start a tally of how many of us prospective Trojans are applying to certain other schools.</p>
<p>So my full list is pretttty long.</p>
<p>In no particular order:
USC, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, NYU, Boston U, UCs. </p>
<p>Oh and I remember getting the RHP thing in the mail last year as a junior. That was before I knew I'd like USC so much.</p>
<p>My SAT score is relatively low for all my major reach schools. My GPA is my biggest concern. Hooray for hopefully interesting ECs?</p>
<p>My SAT score was an 1850, but I have a 4.68 on a 4.0 scale. I have good clubs and a good solid essay, but my SAT scores are what kill me. Sometimes I feel like I'm aiming too high, though. And that even USC is too above me. =/</p>
<p>I'm jealous of you guys with great GPAs. My SAT scores are decent (2260) and the SAT IIs are better, but I have a 3.7 unweighted and a rank of top 17%. Yeah, the numbers aren't exactly keeping me warm at night, so I know what you mean, Nickel. I'm in one of those moods right now where it's just like "Wow, I have no real safeties and I could totally have screwed myself over for the next four years." Blah. While we're listing colleges though I'm applying to....USC, NYU, Northwestern, Stanford, Wesleyan, Smith, and Occidental.</p>
<p>NYU is everyone's Ivy back-up. xDD I'm 10 out of 507, so I'm around 1 or 2 percent? My unweighted GPA is a 4.0. I'm not applying to that many schools. Only seven and it worries me because there's a chance I'll only get into my safety and I'd rather not go there... I'm only making it my safety because my mom works there and I'll get free tuition, but I'd rather not go there... I don't like the school that much, but I don't see the point in paying a bunch of money to go out of state to a school I'm not that motivated about going to. So that's why if I don't get into any of those schools and only get into my safety, I'll just go there.</p>
<p>Im a definite hopeful prospective of usc. it's actually my first choice!!</p>
<p>USC is actually my first choice too. Others are Umich, NYU, BU, U of Miami and U of Indiana. My gpa is 3.8/4.1, my Ecs are good, recs good, essay good...just the stupid SAT!!!!!! my god!! lolz. I'm so worried that USC is too much of a reach for me...even though i'd wanna go to UPenn and Northwestern too...but just...i think for me it'd be impossible....so i'm sticking to USC as my first choice...and even then i think there is a slim chance i will actually get in</p>
<p>I think a lot of people got screwed by the SAT. XD</p>
<p>Yea! That's the main reason i'm not applying to higher reach schools...because of that SAT score! i mean...damn..practice tests i got 2100...and then 1750...*&%@# still angry about that lolz.
Good luck on the retake!!!</p>
<p>When I took the PSAT, I was sooo disappointed. I scored in the 500s. But then I took the real test and I got at least a 600 on each test. I ended up with a 1850 and I don't know my new scores yet. I'm so worried. I don't want to do worse. What if I made in the 500s this time?</p>
<p>any internationals applying under the scholarship deadline?
does anybody know whether they pay for our trip to LA (assuming we get an interview)?</p>
<p>Yep, I'm applying. I heard they pay half of the trip, but I'm not sure. You seem to be fairly certain about being invited ;)</p>
<p>I just wanted to suggest that Nickel Xenon and the others whose SAT's aren't up to the rest of their applications consider taking the ACT as a walk-in on December 8th. Some people find the ACT a more straightforward test and do a lot better on it. There is a Science section that is different from what you see on the SAT, but if you get an ACT prep book and just take a look, the issue seems to be more how you approach the questions than knowing the material cold. All you have to lose is a Saturday morning! And USC seems to be perfectly happy with ACT's, whether or not the student is from an "ACT state." (If you do decide to try out the ACT as a walk-in, get an application at your school and fill it out before you go to the test center, be sure to bring all the stuff they say you need, and be sure to arrive as early as possible. You might even want to call the test center where you're going to to go as a walk-in and see if they have suggestions or a formal waiting list.)</p>
<p>I alread took the ACT. I was pretty average too, just like on the SAT. I hated the ACT science questions too. Really, I felt the SAT to be a better test. I felt the ACT was a waste of my time. I wish I could get my money back.</p>