I’ve been selected to interview for the Trustee Scholarship for USC, and I was wondering if this could possibly be a measure of my chances for other colleges (such as MIT, Stanford, and the Ivies). For example, do most scholarship candidates get into top-tier schools such as the ones listed? If anyone who received the scholarship nomination in the previous years could provide some feedback, that would be really appreciated. Thanks!
I’m here on Trustee right now. Most kids on my floor (who also got Trustees) got into at least one ivy league (several, Columbias, Penns, Dartmouths, Browns). I myself didn’t apply to an Ivy, but I did get into my first choice schools (Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin). Good luck with interviewing.
Same here! I’m on Trustee and out of the three Ivies I applied to, I did get into one (Penn).
Is it the same case for Presidential Scholars? I’m just curious.
With holistic admissions there is no way of knowing which combination of factors helped you in this admissions process, and there is no way to know if they mirror what other schools are looking for. It is way more than scores - it is what you have done overall, where you are from, first gen, urm, what they are looking for that given class year, and what peers bring to the table. I know people that weren’t even accepted to USC that went to MIT and another to Columbia. Sometimes scores/gpa have a much smaller impact than people think, just look at admitted student stats thread. Seriously, admissions is about a lot of things the student has zero control over. So I would not correlate any school with another, especially USC who has this unique mission going of changing it’s entire student body demographic in the last 5 years. Long time followers of USC will tell you they are taking and rejecting more students not because of what the student has done or not done, but because of what they want.
blueskies2day: Can you explain what you are referring to when you say that USC has a unique mission to change the demographics of its student body? In what way? Evidence? Is that something that the administration has stated or is that just what you and others have concluded? Not trying to be critical…just trying to understand. Thanks.