<p>Should I send in the mid-year report anyway? I ended up with an A in AP English and AP Bio, a B in AP Calculus, a B+ in AP Euro, an A in yearbook, TAing, and this other silly class that was a prerequisite to graduate. I'm a little worried about these grades.</p>
<p>I received no request for the grades in the mail - I don't know if it means anything, if it's good or bad, whatever. I don't feel like I would have fallen into the reject pile so early, but who knows. Dictate my future for me!</p>
<p>I take it you’re asking about USC (correct me if I’m wrong). USC does require a mid year report. It is blatantly stated on their usconnect.usc.edu site. The form is on the common app.</p>
<p>Don’t be a ■■■■■ your grades are fine.</p>
<p>Not trying to ■■■■■, just a little insecure after seeing so many 4.8 GPA students on here :/</p>
<p>I’ll send it in anyway then. Weird that I got no letter though, huh?</p>
<p>Moschisms, I’m in the same boat. 3 B’s first semester, most ever in high school career, a little nervous, but hopefully USC will weight the fact that I took 6 AP’s in one semester, etc. Anyway, USC doesn’t send a letter requesting mid year grades. Your counselor uploads them via the common app. Also make sure to login to your USC portal, because there is a specific section there for you to input your mid year grades, as well.</p>
<p>Well I’ll probably get raked over the coals again for saying this, but here goes. USC DOES send snail mail letters to select people asking for mid year grades. At our school, only the top (straight A) kids who didn’t already get accepted have gotten these letters. My THEORY is that they only ask for mid year grades for people who are likely to get admitted. Why would they waste time and money sending these letters to everyone. Yes, it says on the web site that everyone should send the grades, and you can do it either on the web site or through common ap. It’s easy, so why not. I’m just saying I think if you don’t get a special letter asking for your mid year grades it probably means they are not looking at your app anymore. Would be great if people would post their results next month to see if this is true.</p>
<p>I guess we’ll see. I had a great interview, wonderful letters of rec, amazing extracurriculars and good essays but I guess maybe they did already put me in the reject pile.</p>
<p>Please don’t get discouraged. Not to be ride to the poster above, but you really can’t trust this site.</p>
<p>He just had a theory, NOT facts that USC actually does that. Send the mid year reports and wait a month until decisions come out.</p>
<p>Sorry, but if you look at the admissions data on USC’s website, it’s very clear that they don’t only accept straight-A four points. Also, USC can’t have possibly gone through all 48,000 + applications so far, so how would they already know who they are accepting/rejecting in order to send such requests? Send your grades anyway. Don’t get discouraged, seriously, this website is good for some things but half the time people have no clue what they’re talking about.</p>
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People are free to disagree with your unsupported theory, and that is not “raking you over the coals,” it is disagreeing with you. Which I am about to do:</p>
<p>All applicants are expected to submit mid-year grades. There is a request for them on USConnect. Yep, some have also received letters, and more will receive letters as February goes on. Not all will receive letters, some because they have already submitted mid-year grades (as I believe you have done), some because their counselors submitted them through The Common App, and some just won’t get one. There have been plenty of posters over the years who have received a specific letter who have been both accepted and rejected, as well as plenty of examples of posters who have NOT received a specific letter who have been both accepted and rejected.</p>
<p>You have stated that you do not feel you will be accepted based on your qualifications, and I have no idea if that is correct or not, but other posters should not be at all affected by your arbitrarily deciding that this one letter is an indication of acceptance or rejection.</p>
<p>P.S. Later on, receiving letters about financial aid ALSO will not be an indication of acceptance or rejection. They will be an indication that USC wants all eligible applicants to apply for financial aid.</p>
<p>My daughter has received a letter for midterm grades. The school sent in her transcript, she has all A’s, except for one class where her grade was D, D+, C+. She is tracking to finish class with a B. She is worried on how would reflect on her chances of getting in. Is there a place she can send a letter of explanation for this grade? Do you think it’s a good idea to do this?</p>
<p>In the past, getting or not getting that letter meant nothing.
In the past, USCconnect and the USC website stated that SOME students will be asked for mid-year grades but encouraged everyone to send them anyway.<br>
If it says THIS YEAR year that all students will be asked, then that is new.
Last year, one student we know got the letter and was rejected; another never got the letter (but sent in his grades anyway) and was accepted.</p>
<p>one more time-
The DEAN of Admissions has said this:
"We routinely send letters to students if something is missing. I know that everyone asks about midyear reports. Students shouldn’t wait to receive a letter from us asking for those. We want to see them from everyone. "</p>
<p>Do. Not. Wait. For. A. Letter. Send in your mid year grades.</p>
<p>FYI - I found 21 people who posted in this forum about receiving the mail requesting mid-year grades over the past 4 admissions cycles (2008-2011). Of those, 5 later posted that they were admitted (24%). The rest either posted that they were rejected or did not post their admission decision. I realize that this is a very small sample, but receiving the letter does not seem to have been an indicator of either a more likely admission or more likely rejection, since 24% is near the standard admission rate over the past 4 cycles.</p>
<p>This concurs with what some of the long time posters have stated.</p>
<p>Thank you for doing the research!!!</p>
<p>Hopefully that will reassure current applicants (well, as much as a 20% to 24% admission rate can be reassuring 
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<p>To further back up BigTexDad’s info, the letters requesting mid-year grades are still arriving just as they did throughout February in previous years.</p>