@Unionville5 The website says that admission is on a rolling basis. last year additional HC notifications were made in Late January, and then again in February. The waiting is so hard, especially when schools follow such varying decision schedules.
Hello all, my D had her honors application completed on Nov 8 and we have been anxiously waiting for the letter. Today she got an email saying, “We are evaluating a record number of applications this year, and we will let you know your Honors College decision in mid-February when we release our second and final round of notifications.” Did anyone else get this? Is it a deferral or have they actually just not read her application yet? Her application was completed a week before the deadline…
My son received the same email earlier today. I suspect it’s a nice way of saying that he didn’t make the first cut for acceptances, but I have no way of knowing. This is our first experience with USC. Fingers crossed he makes the cut in February. We’re visitng the campus next month, so maybe that will help.
ktbird You might prefer being at a conservative religious school. SC attracts lots of students from OOS and many from blue states. You might learn something if you spend some time around people who don’t share your views.
We got the same HC email–DD was disappointed but we’re looking at it like a deferral rather than a rejection at this point. I still think that HC quite a long shot for her but we will stay positive and see!
My son was accepted and received his HC acceptance on 12/18. IB school, 5.1 GPA, 1470 SAT, 34 ACT, some leadership experience. Now waiting to hear about the top scholars awards with fingers crossed.
Is this post a joke? If you’re one of the 30 percent who thinks everything is hunky-dory and enjoys “alternative facts,”
then your brainwashed kid should go to somewhere like Bob Jones University or Liberty and not USC.
DD declined her offer of admissions today. Good Luck everyone!
Straight rejected with a 1230 SAT, 3.1 GPA, college level classes and great extracurriculars. No gateway either. Is there anything to do?
@ckoen22 I am sorry that you did not get in. How and when did you hear? Was it via letter or through your portal?
@ckoen22 I’m so sorry to hear that. If this is truly your school, you could always start somewhere else and transfer. Do you have a second choice that you’d be happy with trying? I know of kids who ended up having to go to their second (or third or fourth) choice with the intent to apply for transfer to their top choice later and end up really happy and never transferring. Very disappointing news I’m sure but try to keep an open mind. Sometimes the biggest disappointments lead to the best outcomes. Just hard to see at the time. 
Got the small envelope yesterday-Waitlisted and can only be put on waitlist for my alternate major as no one will be admitted to Darla Moore business school from waitlist as per letter. M portal has not changed at all. I am OOS , applied 10/10, 3.6 GPA (HS weighted not USC weighted which would be higher), 1230 SAT.Anyone have experience or know how easy it is to transfer to business after starting in another school at USC? website make sit sound relatively easy (3.0 GPA after 1 semester).
I’m finding that the admission statistics for all of the colleges to which my daughter applied are way lower online or on Naviance, etc. than is currently the case. According to all the scattergrams, she was well into the green section of all schools yet was waitlisted at her #1. I think they need to throw all of those numbers out the window and start over … or put a big disclaimer with their admission statistics == “Do NOT pay attention to these statistics for admission. Unless your GPA and test score is significantly higher than what we’ve said you need, you don’t stand a chance.”
@imstacey I blame how easy it is to apply online as a main reason why stats etc. of the admitted group are going up. Kids apply to a lot more schools now, high stats kids do this for sure to hedge their bets because they know other students are doing the same. I will be interested to see how yields in the near future compare to those of the recent past. Ex…I applied to 10 schools, particularly because I need a decent financial package and with so many applicants that isn’t a guarantee at any of them. I will only attend 1 school. At this point I have been accepted at 6, deferred to RD for 2, and am still waiting for the last 2.
@imstacey Our guidance counselors told us not to look at the scattergrams because they do not differentiate the scores needed for certain programs and don’t accurately reflect the “holistic” approach many colleges take when reviewing applicants. When my son applied to 6 schools, his ACT score was at the high end or above the middle 50th for all 6 schools. We are waiting on 2, got into 2 and got rejected by 2. In the case of one of the schools, the applicant pool increased by 10K, pushing up the middle 50th stats, and forcing them to reject a lot of very qualified students that in past years would have been accepted and would have received OOS waivers (or partial waivers). With kids applying to so many schools, it will be interesting to see what happens with matriculation.
With the outrageous cost of many private colleges & universities, many including my DS & DD opted to apply to mostly state school. The state schools are receiving lots of OOS applications and applications from students with very high stats which is really changing the scores needed for admissions. Because the number of OOS students is limited, those students need stats way above what the average is for the state schools.
@SALSRL I agree that a lot of kids are looking at other state schools but private schools, depending on the tier, offer tremendous amounts of merit aid to attract high achieving students. It’s worth it to look there as well.
@lastone03 Very true, but the point I was trying to make was to show why USC is getting so difficult to get into especially for OOS applicants and why you can’t really go by what is posted as the middle 50% stats of applicants. OOS applicant’s stats need to be well above that many times when applying to state schools.
Accepted to Mechanical Engineering!!
GPA: 3.4 SAT:1300
Tons of extra curriculars and community service.
Applied honors college
I so agree! My son has a 33 ACT, 3.7 (high school doesn’t rank), 11 AP, two varsity sports…Denied from Ohio State, VT, UGA, GT. Also has tons of extracurriculars, academic team, community service. White male.