<p>Um, I AM donating my first born child. Starting in the fall! (And I’m a Cal Bear!)</p>
<p>Lol, I forgot about sending your kids to USC…touche, touche. Very good.</p>
<p>True dat, Jazz. I may be donating my first and only S, and I’m a WA Huksy.</p>
<p>I will donate my limbs, organs, and unborn children.</p>
<p>Please let me in.</p>
<p>jazz and FindA, I donated my firstborn s, too! And I teach at UCLA.</p>
<p>Madbean, how long before you lost your ingrained default reaction to the crimson and gold? And how long before your reaction went from neutral to “Fight On”? Can you please describe any symptoms I might experience while making the transition?</p>
<p>I had an easier time of the transition since H works at USC. He’s also a Husky so it’s been kind of well, odd, to sit in the UW section during football games … Back when we were living in WA, USC were known as the bad guys. Of course then, we knew virtually nothing about them. </p>
<p>Since moving here in '86, we’ve learned a LOT and like what we’ve seen from the inside out. My H truthfully said the other day that he’s not certain he would have been pleased with a child being admitted to USC back then, but now he sure is. Things HAVE changed for the better, and it appears the trajectory, although naturally one that slows over time and hampered by the economy, is still upward.</p>
<p>FindAPlace, I hope you realize I was just having fun?! Of course I realize the USC of today is infinitely different than USC of my college years. That knowledge just doesn’t stop me from sneezing when I walk past Tommy is all.:)</p>
<p>One of my great friends is a Trojan alumna. When our family came home after our spring break trip, there was a USC banner planted in our front lawn in all its cardinal and gold glory! I must admit, I felt a little like we’d landed on an alien planet.</p>
<p>But it’s a funny thing. Being a Trojan is fun. I have never followed college football, but now I watch each and every Trojan game. This school loves my son, and he is having an amazing experience. Just wait. You will not believe the quality of the professors, the quality and friendliness of the students, and the staggering opportunities at USC.</p>
<p>jazz–when we went to Explore they explained that it isn’t just the students, but also the parents and siblings who are part of the Trojan family. With that sort of welcome, it took less than a second to recognize how lucky we are. I never took that USC banner down from my front lawn. It’s faded now, but it’s still up.</p>
<p>Fight on!</p>
<p>Of course, Jazz! If you’d see half my threads on the Parents of 2010 thread, you’d know I’m in to fun. My comments were more directed to others who read these USC threads.</p>
<p>“These “It makes no sense that USC rejected me considering I got accepted to Berkeley/UCLA…” comments annoy me to no end.”</p>
<p>i agree 100% with this post. USC is not some sort of safety compared to these schools lol.</p>
<p>dreamupsided0wn: “If I get into USC I will personally donate my limbs.” …</p>
<p>"I will donate my limbs, organs, and unborn children.</p>
<p>Please let me in. "</p>
<p>Dream, you crack me up. H i l a r i o u s, just sayin.</p>
<p>Honestly, it doesn’t suprise me that you got into UCLA and not USC…I got into UCLA and am not expecting to receive admission from USC.</p>
<p>But, in their defense…if they are an out-of-state student and received admission into UCLA, then that does come as somewhat of a shock to me. You guys are not giving UCLA half as much credit when it comes to applicants. This year they had over 57,000, which was the largest pool of university candidates in the nation. Nevertheless, last year they only accepted about 4,400 students and only 10% were from out-of-state. So, I could see how this could come as a shock…for an out-of-state student at least.</p>
<p>Out of state, I guess. It is harder to get into UCLA as an OOS student than to get into USC.</p>
<p>I think the UC’s may be taking it slightly easier on out of state students this year because I got into USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley from out of state but I thought I would definitely be rejected from UCLA and Berkeley.</p>
<p>They admitted more OOS students this year because of the budget crisis (since OOS students pay full tuition).</p>
<p>Does USC have preference towards applicants who don’t require financial aid? Would coming from a low income family hurt someone’s chances of getting in?</p>
<p>@FindAPlace
Did you just mention that you are a husky? I’m attending UW this fall!</p>
<p>to be honest, i didn’t really plan on going to usc so the rejection didn’t matter all that much to me. what i’m concerned about is that this means that my chances at some of those east coast private schools which were reaches to begin with are just about nonexistent now. </p>
<p>on the other hand, yes, usc is pretty good but i really wouldn’t say usc is more selective than ucla and berkeley. if you look at the stats, yes, usc’s sat scores are a bit higher but its gpa and rankings are lower. (UCs have to take some of the low-income students so that rather brings down the average sat score) i know someone at my school who got into usc with a half ride but was rejected from both ucla and cal. (by the way, i’m in-state). </p>
<p>and to someone in an earlier post, yeah, i think part of it was that i didn’t show enough interest. i would have needed a lot of financial aid to go to that school and i had originally just been hoping for ucla or cal. oh well, best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>pineapple, you are SO not alone.
i just got my rejection letter today, after getting waitlisted at stanford (whos acceptance rate was ~ 7%).
usc was, in all senses of the word, a safety school for me. with a 33 ACT, 4.4 W GPA/ 3.95 UW, and national ranking in two extracurriculars, I am finding it incredibly hard to see what was missing in my application. Its certainly not grades, as the only bs i have ever recieved were in one semester of AP Physics and one semester of advanced geometry (mind you, math has zero to do with my major).</p>
<p>The thing is, I really wanted to go to usc because for my major (annenberg) they are one of the best in the country. to say that im not ****ed off would be a total lie. it doesnt help that the rest of my colleges are had historic numbers of applications and around 6% acceptance rates. I never thought I would be saying this, but it looks like community college is the next step in the game for me.</p>