<p>And I think the status madness has sort of the opposite effect of something like a “likely letter.” For many, it fosters a “bad” or “uneasy” feeling about the school in the student during the waiting period.</p>
<p>I think the early admits (like USC’s practice), or likely letters, do act as incentives to those fortunate few who receive them. Alas, those terrific kids who may have just missed the cut are aware they were <em>not</em> among the top choices (from HS friends, CC, etc) and so must feel a little dissed. </p>
<p>It’s kinda the same thing that happens with any HS awards that have cutoffs. The kids in the top 10% feel great, the kid who is 11% or 12% feels supremely frustrated.</p>
<p>This is a kind of temporary sting. After all, there are many great universities and when all the admissions are in, along with FinAid awards, Honors colleges invitations, merit $$, college re-visits to accepted students days, and other friends start making their decisions, I’ve seen kids take a whole NEW look at all their offers.</p>
<p>Most of us here posting on cc really love USC, but we came to our own decisions, watched our students make hard choices, and now feel thrilled with the result— and so will you all when the final decision is made.</p>
<p>Just as a side comment, lately I’ve been frequenting and posting on another very selective school’s board. Up until a few days ago when the decisions came out, the board was experiencing moderate traffic, with the usual pattern of mutual encouragement and hopeful comments. Then the decisions came out and it turned out that a bunch of seemingly very qualified applicants got waitlisted–just as a large number of seemingly very qualified applicants got accepted, too. Anyway, for the next couple of days that board virtually exploded with resentful comments and all kinds of conspiracy theories meant to explain why some kids got waitlisted. It got so bad that accepted students started to feel guilty for having been accepted and also started to question their chances with the schools that they hadn’t heard back from (the reasoning being that if such-and-such school accepted me, I must not be Ivy caliber, otherwise they would have waitlisted me.) Unbelievable! By comparison, when the early admits, the USC scholarship recipients, got notified, the ones not making the cut on this board reacted in a much more dignified and mature way. So congratulations to all those who, although disappointed, didn’t let their inflated egos take over. Good for you!</p>
<p>Hey, I know this is a little off topic but I didn’t want to start a whole new thread on a simple question. I was wondering if you are rejected from a certain school of USC (I applied to Viterbi), can you still be accepted to USC as an undecided major or something of that matter or is it once you’re rejected, you’re rejected for good? Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>You can still be accepted as Undeclared at CLAS.</p>
<p>Considering how my status hasn’t changed from “being reviewed by the admission committee,” since January, i’m assuming i’m not going to be in this wave. Do you guys know approximately how many waves there are going to be?</p>
<p>Also stuck with “being reviewd” since Jan here =(
Oh and please don’t simply assume our group won’t be in this wave…or any wave at all? Although this may be the very truth, I don’t want my hope to get killed this early with no proof.</p>
<p>@mimizist - i think you’re the only one on here that i’ve met so far that knows how i feel! lol i really hope we get in, usc is like my dream school. i see the mail truck outside i’m waiting for him to deliver the mail so i can go check.</p>
<p>just checked the mail, no letter. i live in the LA area btw. i’m hoping i’m not rejected!</p>
<p>@uschopeful2010 </p>
<p><em>pat on shoulder</em> I’m OOS so I’m not expecting letters anyways until next Tue. It will be such a relief if anyone with our status (being reviewed since Jan, no “forwarded”/“received fall grades”) gets accepted this early! Don’t lose hope and we are all right here with ya =)</p>
<p>@mimizist - here’s to hoping you get a letter on tuesday! although i think people with our status (that have never had forwarded) are probably not in this wave. hopefully they just haven’t looked at our application yet, and they’ll get to it on monday? </p>
<p>i knew march was going to be a stressful month, but not THIS stressful lol.</p>
<p>btw, what are you stats if you don’t mind listing some of them here?</p>
<p>Hmm my stats…not so hot lol. 3.88UW and 1930 (yikes). My SAT would probably end up being the ultimate reason for any school to reject me…=/</p>
<p>And I’m pretty sure they have reviewed every’s apps by now, but there are definitely more final decisions to make. And yeah March is just overwhelming…I really hope I get something before my 18th birthday, which is in appx. 10days ><</p>
<p>my stats aren’t so hot either lol… 3.8 UW and 2020 SAT… i think we’re in the same boat lol. hopefully you get good news on or before your birthday!</p>