<p>I've heard a lot of good things about USC's school for architecture. One being that their networks are really good. If i have an awesome portfolio, but my gpa isnt that high, would it be possible to get in?</p>
<p>Difficult. They have plenty of high GPA students applying.</p>
<p>If it is rock-their-world awesome, yes it is possible. When I was there I had a few (read: three-four out of a class of 125) classmates who had obviously gotten in on the basis of completely amazing portfolio work, but the vast majority of people were honors/AP students, top SAT scores, great EC's, basically all the stuff you need to get into the school PLUS good portfolios. This leads me to believe that the architecture school has the pull to get just a couple of people per year in despite the university not being so enthusiastic about them.</p>
<p>you need to have good stats and a good portfolio but it's not as hard to get into compared to like cooper or cornell, largely because the usc arch class size is double, or triple the class size of other arch school (cornell has 55 students a class, cooper i think 45). </p>
<p>i have a friend who transferred from usc. he is one of the best in my school..very talented.</p>
<p>cooper actually usually has about 35- my year(this year) only 30- btw about 6-7 of those are transfers that go into first year as well.</p>
<p>How goes it on St Marks Place?</p>
<p>it goes well on St. Marks.</p>
<p>Love that neighborhood. Do you mean to say that 6 or 7 students are older? 23 are 18?</p>
<p>Actually it is more like 9 transfers/other -- so it is about 21 of us that are between 17-19 years old. – the transfers range from 20-29.</p>
<p>Interesting. that's a substantial percentage of older students. Cooper vacillates back and forth between older and younger students.</p>
<p>Hope the BA/MArch kids take notice of that percentage. I have a number of friends who did the Cooper program as 'transfers' as you call them. Quite a few had Ivy BAs.</p>