JUST OUT! Numbers from the USC Office of Admissions

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<p>The USC Dean of Admissions, Timothy Brunhold, just released information about the students who were admitted.</p>

<p>Here are the numbers:</p>

<p>Applicants for the freshmen class----------------------------------51,700</p>

<p>Admit rate-----------------------------------------------------------------17.8%</p>

<p>High schools represented--------------------------------------------3,150</p>

<p>Percentage from California-------------------------------------------44%</p>

<p>First in family to attend college--------------------------------------1 of 8</p>

<p>International students admitted-------------------------------------17%</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA of admitted students----------------------------3.82</p>

<p>Percentage who had 8 or more AP classes-----------------------47%</p>

<p>Number who had test scores in the 99th percentile-------------3,300</p>

<p>Students admitted were from these states in order-------------</p>

<p>CA
TX
NY
Ill
WA
FL
NJ</p>

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<p>Here’s the source: <a href=“https://admissionblog.usc.edu/2014/03/26/mission-accomplished/”>https://admissionblog.usc.edu/2014/03/26/mission-accomplished/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>this is really good but i just wanted to let you know that it’s really misleading the way you presented the list of states. admitted students do not come solely from those states, but MOSTLY, according to the source you posted. thanks!</p>

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<p>Only 17% of international students were admitted…? O.O I’m screwed…lol</p>

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<p>@pumpkin96 no, 17% of admitted students were international</p>

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<p>Still kind of bleak, since only 1 out of 8 international students were admitted</p>

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<p>i was surprised to see how many in-state kids they admitted…</p>

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<p>@whythough - because of USC’s location, each year about half their applicants are from California (49% last year). As you can see, the California student admit percentage is a bit below half (44% this year, 45% last year), suggesting that, though the overall percentage of admits from California is relatively high, they are admitted at a lower percentage than others, meaning that it is a bit tougher to be admitted from California. (Hopefully those reading took a statistics class and can see why this makes sense :). I am not sure I explained it well.)</p>

<p>Last year’s Freshman Profile: <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>A lot of California students are eligible for Cal grants which may serve as an additional incentive for students to apply since USC is private (versus the UC system). As you can imagine, many of the top schools around the country pull a large number of applicants from their home states.</p>

<p>Oddly enough, however, because of it’s relative size and population, California represents a sizeable portion of applications at my college on the east coast. :-)</p>

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<p>Confused - is the international admit rate 17% of all of the int’l students who applied, or are 17% of everyone admitted international students? Do they give the number of international applicants anywhere? </p>

<p>*edit - went back and re read official stats - appears that 44% of the admitted students are from CA, 39% are from all other states combined, and 17% are from out of the country. Does that mean that international students have a much better chance/higher admit rate than non-California USA?</p>

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<p>A stat that was in the blog entry, but not posted above was that 28% of the admitted students had an UNweighted GPA of 4.0. That equates to over 2,500 kids. I find that totally outrageous. </p>

<p>. . Still awaiting a decision, hopefully in today’s mail. Would call it a bit of a ‘reach’ for my son. Notably, he goes to a private high school with, if anything, grade deflation and with few AP’s offered prior to senior year (no one from his high school graduates with “8 or more AP classes”). So, it’s hard to find much optimism here, as he’s got very high SAT’s, but few AP’s and a 3.5ish GPA. Notably, even tho’ his school does ridiculously well with college placements, USC has never admitted a whole lot of their kids. He already has some very good options, but loved USC when we visited. Fortunately because the other decisions/admits came out before USC’s he’ll be fine either way. But I do find the stats that Brunhold chose to post pretty interesting, and further testimony to how nuts all of this has become (i.e., at all the schools, not just USC).</p>

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<p>Hi @2018eastorwest ,
In the letter posted in the OP, Mr. Brunhold mentions that 17% of admitted students were international applicants. He does not mention a separate admission percentage for international students, but historically international applicants have found admission to be a tiny bit “easier” ( in terms of admission %) than domestic applicants. If you look at last year’s freshman profile <a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/docs/USCFreshmanProfile2013.pdf&lt;/a&gt; for example, you will see that though international applicants represented only 12% of all applicants, they comprised 16% of those students admitted, suggesting that they were admitted at a higher % rate than domestic students.</p>

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@2018eastorwest , it means that, historically, international applicants have been admitted at a higher % rate than domestic students (California + other states). That has not been confirmed for the current year as applicant totals will not be published until late September.</p>