<p>Hey guys, what's up? I'm going to be a junior next year and I want to go to business school, USC has always been my dream school.</p>
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<li>Asian (Filipino)</li>
<li>Living in Alaska</li>
<li>Top 2% of my class (graduating class is around 450 students, ranked 5th of out 459)</li>
<li>4.0 GPA freshman year, 4.16 GPA sophomore year, expecting 4.66 junior year and 4.5 senior year (I'm going to maintain straight A's, which would lead to a 4.33 cumulative GPA and hopefully valedictorian)</li>
<li>4.0 unweighted GPA</li>
<li>Took 1 AP class (US History) last year, taking 4 (Spanish, Econ, Lang, Chem) next year and 3 (Stats, Calc, Psych) my senior year</li>
<li>Key Club (2 years projected)</li>
<li>National Honor Society (3 years projected)</li>
<li>Yearbook editor (also doubled as the financial manager, handled our budget)</li>
<li>Varsity football (2 years as a junior and senior)</li>
<li>Haven't taken SATs and ACTs yet, but expecting to get around 2200 and 34 on them</li>
<li>Got a 218 on my PSAT, which qualified me for Semifinalist if I was a junior but I took the test as a sophomore. Is that half tuition thing true?</li>
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<p>Do you think I'd be able to get in? I checked the stats thread, but a lot of those are from CA.</p>
<p>You’ve got a great start man - don’t predict straight A’s too quickly with only half your HS career finished and the hardest ahead, but I like that you’re confident and already looking ahead. If all of that pans out, I think USC would be more than glad to have you; and another filipino would be awesome too :)</p>
<p>From my own experience, there aren’t very many; I only met like 3-4 other Filipinos my freshman year. There is a Filipino culture club called Troy Phi, but I didn’t get the chance to check them out - but maybe I will next year!</p>
<p>What I meant was, I know about the Trojan family, but do any big firms recruit at Marshall? I’m planning to specialize in corporate finance. If not, then it’s no biggie. USC is still my #1.</p>
<p>Accounting in leventhal is excellent, entrepreneurship is ranked top 5 too, everything else in Marshall is top 10 material. I saw a list of top recruiters on the marshall website</p>
The “1/2 tuition thing” is true, but it is only for NMS and therefore would not apply to scores you received as a sophomore. What were your scores as a Junior? Junior-year PSAT scores are the only ones used in determining NMF and NMS.</p>
<p>Ahhh… so you are a rising junior? Yes, the 1/2 tuition Presidential Scholarship is given to NMS who are accepted to USC and name USC as their first-choice school by the deadline (which I believe is May of your application year… someone jump in and correct me if I am wrong!). It is 1/2 of *tuition *only - not room/board and expenses. NMS also get an extra $1,000/year from National merit Corporation.</p>
<p>Tash,
Individuals have their own point of view concerning the U.S. News rankings. Here are the latest for the USC Marshall School of Business: (Undergraduate)</p>
<p>Tash,
This is a list of the top firms that hired Marshall graduates for full time positions from the class of 2007. It was a lengthy list, so I will just post the top 15 firms. </p>
<p>If I can find a later list it will be posted here.</p>
<p>Ernst & Young
Deloitte & Touche
PricewaterhouseCoopers
KPMG
Banc of America Securities
Citigroup
BDO Seidman
Triage Consulting
Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt, LLP
JP Morgan
Protiviti
Goldman Sachs
Duff & Phelps, LLC
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
McGladrey & Pullen</p>