I have no life, chance me?

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Rather than participate in rehearsal as I should, I'm on CC... story of my life.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.17/3.89
SAT: 2010
Subject: 650 Lit, 550 Math II, 580 US History, 610 French w Listening
APs: 4 English language, 2 statistics
Honors classes: Taken 7 honors/ap, school is a small private and doesn't offer a huge amount or honors required classes vs regular, everyone does the same thing.
ECs/other:
-Played violin for almost 10 years, played in orchestra and school concerts, have won concerts
-Played guitar for 2 years
-Graduating at age 16, skipped 2nd and 7th grades
-Trilingual, learning my fourth language
-Teach violin as a volunteer to underprivileged children every week for 4 hours
-Have traveled to 8 countries (I want to study international business), wrote essay about this, a lot of this has been spent performing community service abroad
-Cum laude on National Latin Exam
Essay: pretty good, ending maybe a tad cheesy but definitely conveyed passion and a sense of humor
Interview: really good.
Recs: 2 teacher, 1 counselor, all glowing.
Hook: Huge upward trend in grades, overseas internship as marketing director for aunt's company, so I have experience in what I want to study.</p>

<p>I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out and whatnot but that's the basic idea...</p>

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<p>Though your GPA is on the low side, you have stellar ECs. Plus your experience, not to mention your obvious passion, defintely gives you an upperhand.</p>

<p>Though I don’t know thaaatt much about what makes a “good candidate,” I’d say you have a pretty good shot.</p>

<p>Good luck! :]</p>

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<p>I haven’t seen anyone with your GPA here on CC report that they had been admitted at USC.<br>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/642272-stats-only-usc-decisons-2009-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/642272-stats-only-usc-decisons-2009-a.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/454785-stats-only-usc-official-decisions-fall-2008-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/454785-stats-only-usc-official-decisions-fall-2008-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Here is the latest Freshman Profile-
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>But from what you wrote here, it sounds like you have an interesting story- hopefully you will catch someone’s eye in admissions. I will be interested to hear if you get in so let us know- good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks a ton!</p>

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<p>your GPA is definitely low for usc (average uw gpa is around a 3.7), your SAT scores are in the average range. everything else seems impressive and would definitely help you out a lot for getting admitted. the thing i noticed though, is that usc does give emphasis on numbers.</p>