<p>My status is still stuck on "Your application is being reviewed by the admission committee." Is anybody else's still stuck on this? Most people seem to be at forwarded...</p>
<p>That is mine! I was a little worried about it but I read on another thread that someone last year had this status up until the point that he received his admissions letter :)</p>
<p>A lot of people are stuck at “fall grades” too :/</p>
<p>honestly i don’t care about the status as long as i get a letter in the mail soon. at least i won’t be getting home from school everyday and checking my status only to find that nothing has changed. it’s really nerve-wracking and stressful waiting on admission/rejection letters!</p>
<p>bumpp!</p>
<p>my status is still the same today, anybody else still have this status?</p>
<p>My son has been in the “forward” status for a long time. Haven’t heard anything from USC except the no scholarship letter. Doesn’t matter anymore. My son has been accepted at UCLA!!!</p>
<p>ewww UCLA ;)</p>
<p>@hopeboat…ditto</p>
<p>Hopeboat, USC was his first choice but USC doesn’t seem interested. The longer USC takes to answer is the longer it will take to get use to another school wanting my son.</p>
<p>yea, it makes sense, but i just cant help but say it, ive been raised in a Trojan family </p>
<p>seriously though, congrats, its a good school :)</p>
<p>raffles88…my apologies too. UCLA is a great school and to be accepted there is a huge honor. Congrats to you and your son. It is nice to know he will have a great education either place. I too, was just playing around and probably should not have. Sorry…</p>
<p>raffles88, from the time everyone first logged in and started on their USC applications, it has said “We will inform you by April 1st.” Today is March 12th! The problem with all this status frenzy is it gives people the mistaken impression that something is going on and they are left out. MOST colleges haven’t sent out letters yet! Why do you interpret that as disinterest?</p>
<p>Alamemom, my older son was accepted to USC two years ago. His acceptance dated Feb 1st and received scholarship. My younger son has equal to stats plus higher GPA, SAT, and SATII scores than my older one. We were surprised he hadn’t been accepted earlier. He is an engineering major so maybe it’s harder to get in or maybe they have a lot more applicants to his major this year. I will admit it’s difficult to gauge because I don’t know how many engineering applicants each school accepts.</p>
<p>My status is still “We have received your midyear grades”… makes me worried that I’m not getting in this wave?</p>
<p>uschopeful2010-I had the your application is being reviewed status and then it switched to preliminary review than it was stuck on forwarded for a month. and just today, it switched back to Your application is being reviewed by the admission committee…</p>
<p>@raffless88, USC’s engineering school is very selective - last year, they admitted 12.5% of applicants.</p>
<p>@alamemom
I don’t think it’s just the status frenzy that affects the applicants’ mindsets. My son, for example, doesn’t ever check CC or even his app status. Lol, I once MADE him read CC because I find it a very useful resource, but in general he’s pretty laid back about the whole application process. But what I see happen with him (and with his friends) is that, as the acceptances keep arriving, he focuses more and more on the schools that he has already heard from. Which is normal given that he, just like everybody else, applied to a number of great schools. I’m not saying that USC should change anything about their notification dates; after all, they’ll have plenty of qualified applicants to choose from no matter what they do. I’m just saying that, indeed, the longer it takes to hear back, the more likely it is that by the time you do get the letter your mind will have been set on another school. Just my 2 cents…</p>
<p>^ I think you are right. I also think the kids (sensibly) insulate themselves from possible rejection. My D received her first EA admission in November and was so happy and relieved to have SOMEWHERE to go she told everyone that was where she was going and refused to talk about the others still to come. But as soon as that letter arrived… the excitement began.</p>
<p>In any case, so many of you kids have been hanging around here waiting to hear, supporting each other and encouraging each other - THAT is what the famous Trojan family is all about. Don’t get discouraged because of the wait. Not much longer!</p>
<p>UCLA moved their notification date up by more than a week this year - they are probably tryng to take advantage of the very thing you are talking about.</p>
<p>What you guys raise in the past two comments is exactly why some schools send “likely letters.” My son received one from another school several weeks ago, and it had the effect of causing him to really become more curious about that school, do more research in a whole new way, etc. His guidance counselor says that’s the whole point - to get them into that new mode of “I’m in; what’s this place all about, looks cooler than I thought when I didn’t know I was in…”</p>
<p>I think USC would do itself a favor by eliminating this status stuff, because I fear I gets some students (and parents) upset with the school. “Why hasn’t my status changed?” “They must not be interested in me,” etc., as evidenced my the mom of a UCLA admit who made comments yesterday suggesting that if USC didn’t start showing interest soon, her child would lose interest in them. </p>
<p>USC, while it’s been fun trying to decipher the status madness (and has cost me hours of work productivity), please consider just telingl kids when their apps are complete, then post/mail the decisions. And maybe just early admits and one other wave?</p>
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That would be the perfect way to handle it!</p>