Help on App, what the hell?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Ok in the courses and grade section the rules are as follows:</p>

<p>1 Sealed and certified transcripts are considered "official." Unsealed transcripts are "unofficial," but can be used for a preliminary application review. You must send USC Admission an official transcript of your high school/secondary school record. Please mail them with the Transcript Request Form for High School Records to: University of Southern California, Office of Admission-Undergraduate, University Park Campus, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0911</p>

<p>2 Enter courses and the grades you earned for each grade level, in each of the subject categories. Enter "IP" if the course is in progress or "CR" if a non-graded credit was earned. If your course does not appear in a drop-down box, you may type it in. A school must be selected for each course taken.</p>

<p>3 List only college preparatory classes. Any subject you list will be considered "regular" unless you indicate it as: (AP) Advanced Placement or (IB) International Baccalaureate.</p>

<p>4 There is space to enter two courses per category per year. Use the first and second semester drop-down boxes if your school is on a semester system; if you have taken a yearlong or block schedule class enter the course name and grade in each of the three drop-down boxes per course. Use the "3rd/summer" drop-down box for summer classes or for third trimester courses if your school is on a trimester calendar. If your summer school class was equivalent to a full-year course enter the grades separated by a slash (see example below).</p>

<p>5 You must fill in a least one course for each category. If you did not take a class in one of the categories, list "None" as the course and "N/A" for the grade.</p>

<p>Now it says if its a yearlong class (all of mine are except for Gym which is a MP of health) it says put the class in all three boxes, but then the example does the opposite and only puts it in the first two. What should I be doing?</p>

<p>Second, they have no honors classes, so should I assume they only care about AP/IB, or should I instead put say English I honors for freshmen year instead of English I from the dropbox. Thanks.</p>

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<p>if your school is on the semester schedule, just write it in the first two boxes an use the third for summer. that's what the example is showing. gym doesn't matter because, if i remember correctly, they ask you not to include gym classes on that sheet.</p>

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<p>When the use the term "full year course" there, they are referring to a course that you literally took the full year. As in in the fall, in the spring, and in the summer. If you didn't take summer school for that course, like most people, then you only need to put it in the first two boxes.</p>

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<p>Ok and what about the honors thing, should I type in all my honors classes or will that not mater as they only weight AP/IB classes?</p>

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<p>Yes, you should note all Honors, AP and IB classes.
For Honors and AP classes, we listed it like this:
"H English 3"
"AP US History"</p>

<p>USC does not "weight" ANY classes. Your GPA is calculated as unweighted. We know this because USC quotes an unweighted GPA in their admissions stats. Honors, AP, and IB classes are considered and expected.</p>

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<p>I already submitted my application, but I used the drop-down options for all of my honors classes instead of noting them as honors. This should be fine, as they will see my official transcript anyways, right?</p>

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<p>Yeah I would like to know the answer to the above question as well.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>