<p>Great, thanks everyone for your responses. I still haven’t gotten anything in the mail and will probably call in a few days.</p>
<p>Prodigyy11, if a letter was sent to you on 1/26 you may be up for a scholarship. I believe that’s when the scholarship letters were sent out. The Admissions Rep should be able to tell you if that is the case.</p>
<p>Prodigy could also check for the explore link on the website.</p>
<p>I have not received a letter either.
I live in MD, should I call my counselor in the next few days?</p>
<p>The Dean of Admissions, Timothy Brunhold, gave me permission to post excerpts from an email he sent me yesterday that clarifies the different mailings that have gone out from USC in the past few weeks-</p>
<p>"To answer your question: Yes, alll freshman applicants who submitted a Common Application form AND a USC supplement by the December 1st deadline have been sent some kind of letter through postal mail. These letters fall into three broad categories:</p>
<p>(1) students who have been admitted and have been selected as a Trustee or Presidential Scholarship finalist (btw - Mork Scholars will be chosen from this same group after we complete our scholarship interviews);
(2) students who have been admitted, were not selected as a T/P finalist but who were awarded a dean’s scholarship; or
(3) students who met the deadline but who have not yet been admitted (and thus who have not been selected as a Trustee or Presidential finalist or as a first-round dean’s recipient).</p>
<p>The letters to group 3 were put into the mail stream on January 26th. The letters for groups 1 and 2 went out earlier than that."
So if you appled by Dec 1 and have not already received mail notifying you of acceptance and a scholarship, you have not be selected to interview for a Trustee scholarship or Presidents Scholarship.</p>
<p>He did add this-
"I can’t stress enough that the letter received by folks in group 3 is routine. There is no hidden meaning behind it and the receipt of that letter should not be interpreted as anything other than us closing the loop for our scholarship applicants. We have admitted fewer than 20% of those who will eventually be admitted. We haven’t yet made ANY decisions besides these. No one else has been admitted and no one has yet been denied. I completely understand that folks want to know the outcome of our deliberations, but we just don’t have any news to tell them at this point. We still have a good six week’s worth of deliberation and discussion and plan to use every minute of it to ensure that every applicant has been given full and serious consideration before making our decisions. No other decision letters will be mailed until the last week of March.
s it still possible to receive a merit scholarship if a student is in group 3? Yes! Again, thousands of people in group 3 will eventually be admitted. Anyone in that group of admitted students who is a National Merit Scholar and selects USC as his or her first choice will receive a Presidential Scholarship. There’s another round of deans scholarships that will be awarded in late March/early April. In fact, all of the other merit scholarships (basically anything not already mentioned) will be awarded at that time as well.</p>
<p>So applicants TAKE HEART!</p>
<p>You should start a new thread with that email excerpt - we say all of that over and over and over and over… but hopefully it will have more weight coming direct from The Dean of Admissions, AND a dedicated thread will be easier to find and bump up!</p>
<p>Haha! Great minds think alike - you posted a new thread as I posted that you should start a new thread! :)</p>
<p>Thank you for verifying the types of letters. That was my exact understanding and was only unaware of the dates letters were sent. Unfortunately it still doesn’t do any good for those who received nothing as it has been a full 2 weeks since the 3rd group went out and should not take that long. Many people have not heard. If a letter was lost, how do you know which letter it was and why are so many lost? I’m still in favor of USC becoming more current, going green and using email. I’m curious why they don’t. Either way we are anxiously awaiting late March and April 1st! :-)</p>
<p>^^ momalisa, this is from the Dean
“So why haven’t some December 1st filers received a letter? I have to surmise that something happened to their letter once it was turned over to the postal service.
Of course, anyone who is still concerned is welcome to contact his or her admission counselor (<a href=“https://camel2.usc.edu/admceebsearch...counselor.aspx[/url]”>https://camel2.usc.edu/admceebsearch...counselor.aspx</a>), call us at (213) 740-1111 or send an e-mail through the web (USC Undergraduate Admission - Contact Us). We’re always happy to confirm the receipt of documents and let folks know where the stand (even if there’s nothing to report). As CC users know, they can get status checks through USConnect as well.”</p>
<p>Just called USC AGAIN after receiving an EXACT copy of the application acknowledgement letter that you get a couple days after you first submit the app. I was told that a LOT of people haven’t received their letters notifying them if they received a scholarship or not and that they are in the process of re-generating them. He told me that if you haven’t received a letter by this coming Tuesday, to call them directly.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update Prodigyy11! Still no USC letter of any type here but she was just accepted to UF!!</p>
<p>I have not recieved a mailed letter from USC, but have recieved an email to apply to the Norman Topping Scholarship Fund. Is that an indicator of the status of my application?</p>
<p>No, it is not an indicator of admission. It is a suggestion that you may be eligible to apply for the NTSAF scholarship, which is a combination of merit and need funded and administered by the students of USC. You must apply for it before admissions decisions are received. If you wait for admissions decisions to arrive, the NTSAF application deadline will have passed and you will no longer be eligible.</p>
<p>Update to my post above: I checked the NTSAF website, and unfortunately the freshman application postmark deadline was yesterday, February 10, 2012. Good luck to those who applied to this wonderful scholarship!</p>
<p>[USC</a> Norman Topping Student Aid Fund](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/ntsaf/]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/student-affairs/ntsaf/)</p>
<p>Has anyone still not received a letter?</p>
<p>If you applied before Dec 1 and have not received a letter- first check your USConnect acct.
and, as the dean of admissions has stated:
“anyone who is still concerned is welcome to contact his or her admission counselor (<a href=“https://camel2.usc.edu/admceebsearch/ugappfindcounselor.aspx[/url]”>https://camel2.usc.edu/admceebsearch/ugappfindcounselor.aspx</a>), call us at (213) 740-1111 or send an e-mail through the web ([USC</a> Undergraduate Admission - Contact Us](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/contact/index.html]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/contact/index.html)). We’re always happy to confirm the receipt of documents and let folks know where the stand (even if there’s nothing to report). As CC users know, they can get status checks through USConnect as well.”</p>
<p>I still haven’t. Going to call tomorrow.</p>
<p>did you check your USConnect acct? Do that first.</p>
<p>What should we be looking for in USConnect?</p>
<p>Under the Admissions tab: Either a mid-year request box or a box that says RSVP for Admitted Student Programs. </p>
<p>If you have the mid-year box, then click it and you will see how easy it is to enter your mid-year grades, also means they are still working on your file. </p>
<p>If you have the RSVP then you click that and it will tell what dates you can register for explore and that you are admitted. Trustee/Pres scholar interviews are in late Feb/early March (ending March 9th) and the other dates (Dean’s scholars?) are a bit later.</p>