<p>Please! I really want someone to help me improve my USC essay. I am looking for advice, comments, and concerns.
I’m undecided so it was really difficult for me to attack the prompt</p>
<p>Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC?</p>
<p>1000 characters</p>
<p>This essay is for the USC prompt and i want to enter undecided. it has to be a 1000 characters or less. please someone help me shorten it and strengthen it please. much appreciated</p>
<p>Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC?</p>
<p>1000 characters</p>
<p>Ever since I began high school, I was able to stretch my growing knowledge onto fields like foreign language, math, science, English, and history. However, for the past three and a half years, all Ive taken were courses in those fields. I have not been able to expand from that cubicle of subjects. At USC, I want to take a variety of courses such as sociology to understand relations in societies. I want to learn the theories of economics and finance to provide solutions to fix our countrys financial problems. Coming in as an undecided college student allows me to select from a wide range of classes and help develop an interest that can lead to my dream profession. At the University of Southern California, undecided students are promoted becomes many of the students at USC change their majors up to 5 times. USCs Learning Community Program is a program that was established to help undecided incoming freshman and other students into finding an academic field that will best suit their interest. With this program, I will be able to develop a strong interest in an academic field. Thus, providing comfort in taking a variety of classes and helping me select my dream profession.</p>
<p>wow I came out of hibernation for 2 years just to post about this. I’ve seen transfers at SC from both CC and 4 year universities who are absolutely dominating their school work right now. Most of my transfer friends are already on a time crunch, thus they’re very serious about their work and work just as hard, if not harder, then the students who come in as freshmen. OP’s argument is absolutely terrible and if he/she is supposedly a “Trojan” then you need a reality check.</p>
<p>I have just finished reading all of your posts as well as those of others. I think you still don’t get the point that USC would plummet in the ranking if the number of transfers is decreased b/c of the way the ranking system runs. I am not saying USC would be lagged behind forever, but the cut you support would most certainly harm USC’s ranking in the short term. By short term, I mean a couple of years. Thats what Nikias and the Trojan community don’t want. </p>
<p>In addition to the ranking, I would like to point out that the transfer acceptance rate is now somewhere around 23%, which is much lower than the freshman acceptance rate in the 80s. Its even close to current freshman acceptance rate. Your argument, not everyone can get into USC is already true on many aspects. I seriously don’t understand your frustration.</p>
<p>To be honest, if you got in when USC had a 50% acceptance rate, why bother to judge those who get in with a 20ish acceptance rate?</p>
<p>After reading these posts I apologize for my sharp and borderline rude tone, which was not my intent. I approached the subject as if I were advising Nikias and the Board of Trustees as an attorney, not realizing that many of the readers are self conscious teenagers as I once was. My frustration is with the administration, not classes of students. So please don’t take offense to my previous comments.</p>
<p>That said, I’m more alarmed by USC’s rapid and uncontrollable growth, especially at the graduate school level. We are bursting at the seams, and until USC makes across the board cuts among all student groups, its lofty goal to achieve elite status will fail.</p>
<p>@SeattleTW I know this is probably one of those threads you wish you could simply delete and move on instead of having to come back every few months to “fight on”, lol. I understand where you are coming from and how you feel, but I have to admit. Your intro paragraph to this thread sounded almost…elitist for second. Unless that was your goal (and if it was, you are feeding directly into the stereotypes that USC is a elitist, rich kid school ). </p>
<p>I am going to potentially be one of those transfers students from a community college that you don’t necessarily want in. As always, i’ll spare you the sob story, but I didn’t really have the same chances, environment or opportunities growing up to run right into USC. I certainly had to go the hard route, not necessarily by choice.</p>
<p>All that said, I much closer to reaching that goal. As a bonus, I’ll likely be paying most of my education through my own career salary versus gobbling up precious financial aid…or making the County pay for it…</p>
<p>I think everything that has been said has been said on this thread, but just wanted to add my 2 cents. USC keeps adding transfers, yet it’s prestige keeps rising. We hear all the time the University wants diversity, and I think by adding folks with incredible life experiences (not to toot my horn, but like mine) on top of the top High School graduates is important).</p>
<p>Clearly, there is something more. Something about transfers is/has affected you in some way, negatively, and you were merely venting a bit? </p>
<p>Timserramist, I’ve read your story on another thread and I greatly admire what you want to do. Stick with it, don’t let any naysayer or pessimist dissuade you from your goal. My son is admitted this year as a spring admit. He figured he had no chance of getting in although it was his number one choice. On the other hand, at several schools where he applied he thought he was a definite shoo-in, but he was waitlisted. Go figure. He had good grades but not 4.9’s or 8.7’s or 2400’s, but he wrote great essays. Your story is very compelling and who really knows exactly what the admissions people are looking for. It’s an individual decision. I like to think of it in a paraphrase of JFK – Ask not what the college can offer you, but what you can offer the college.</p>
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