<p>SilverRex puts the gold star on my application, or else it gets the hose again…</p>
<p>@beachpony thank you, i shall be waiting for that e-mail. i’m hoping it comes quick though i’m getting very anxious</p>
<p>FIVE gold stars for you, Seth.</p>
<p>Hi all,
Waiting for Marshall here. Is there anything I can do in terms of applying for scholarships? I’m not sure there are too much for transfer applications. I have turned in CSS/FAFSA and USConnect says everything is turned in.</p>
<p>^ I should add that both my parents will be unemployed as of March 2013. And we most likely will lose our house. So finances will be huge for me to see if I can attend USC.</p>
<p>@rasd765: As long as you indicated that VERY crucial information on your FAFSA/CSS, I have complete faith USC will help you substantially, as long as you show that they’re the school you truly want to go to. To put it in perspective, at the time I applied I was in danger of losing my home, and my father was getting laid off again and again. USC gave me $36k a year.</p>
<p>Well, my transfer application file is complete (got all the material sent out by January 18th). Took awhile for admissions to process my transcripts for some odd reason. Now I play the waiting game.</p>
<p>USC is definitely my top pick, and I fell in love with the campus when I toured schools with my fianc</p>
<p>@RandomNewGuy</p>
<p>Good luck. I will definitely be rooting for you. USC plays fair, and they reward those who have positive trends. I’m sure you will be fine!</p>
<p>Sorry for the double post, but a group page on Facebook has been made. You guys should all join it!</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/585868561440948/[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/585868561440948/</a></p>
<p>@RandomNewGuy: Also, as long as you have enough credits in community college, they hardly even care about your high school record. They will certainly look at your strongly upward trend, and that definitely says something about your character as a student as well as a human being. You sound like a shoo-in to me. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks! I should definitely have enough - I’m graduating with my A.A. in General Studies this Spring. 17 of my credits are from honors courses to boot. I also catered some of my course load around the transfer guidelines (for instance: apparently Annenberg really wants you to complete foreign language requirements before transferring in, so I am on my third and final semester of Spanish as a result).</p>
<p>I just worry because you see all these fantastic GPAs and numbers that other applicants have, and I’m not sure if I am hindered by my non-traditional status.</p>
<p>Not to mention that while I’m applying for Annenberg, my campus never had a publication really operational enough to put on my application. I’ve had to build my ECs around research writing, work experience, volunteer service and student leadership positions I have taken instead.</p>
<p>So I feel I’m sweatin’ it. Still, thanks for the support.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if USC compares community college students to 4-year college students? Like I know some guys who got community colleges and have 4.0s whereas someone like from a place like UCSD or UCI may have a 3.5. Are the people 4year college people with a little lower GPA fked up?</p>
<p>@RandomNewGuy: I doubt USC would look upon your “non-traditional” status as a drawback. To me, you are definitely qualified to attend USC and the Annenberg School (I’m there now), and I’m positive you’ll get in.</p>
<p>@rajkobie: I don’t know if/how USC compares CC transfers with 4-year transfers. If I could guess, USC would understand that a CC would be less rigorous than a 4-year school, so a lower GPA at a university makes sense to me. If so, they would expect you to use some of the time you have at a CC to be more involved within your campus and community. Are you a 2-year or 4-year transfer?</p>
<p>SilverRex, can I ask your opinion on Annenberg (in terms of course load, how competitive are the students, etc.)? Especially as you start focusing on your concentration and away from the survey classes that (knock on wood!) I have hopefully fulfilled?</p>
<p>Also, have they begun the work on the new Communications building?</p>
<p>The financial aid comments sound positive. One of the big concerns with USC is the price tag, but I suffered major cuts to hours at both my part-time jobs last year (I had to take minimum wage jobs to go back full-time, and as my honors course load increased, my employers’ flexibility with my school schedule decreased) so my EFC is literally ZERO. I am hoping that USC will take that into account when they work up my financial aid package. Since I got everything in by February 1st (FAFSA/CSS and application material), I might benefit from my timeliness. Who knows.</p>
<p>@RandomNewGuy: The course load isn’t all that bad, generally speaking (at least to me, anyway), but you should be prepared for LOTS of reading and writing. Professors have you read from textbooks as well as a sufficient amounts of online reading that you can print out, but that’s a lot to print out (this morning I had to print out 60-something pages of reading for this week, which cost about $6 in the library. However, getting into Annenberg is simple; you need a minimum GPA of 3.0 in your first semester at USC, which isn’t difficult if you apply yourself; this past semester I nabbed a 3.8, with one A and three A-'s.</p>
<p>In terms of competition, I get the feeling that only about half of the students in the lecture hall really care about the material. Sit in the front row, turn around and you will see millions of Apple logos gleaming behind you; sit in the back row and notice that 75% of them are tuned into Facebook. Simply participating in class regularly will get the professor to know you by name; all of my COMM professors know me.</p>
<p>They broke ground on the new building last November.</p>
<p>And yes, USC is very kind and generous with financial aid, and they won’t put loans on you they think you can’t handle. Also, timeliness is great; the sooner you get the documents in, SOMETIMES means you get more of the financial aid you actually qualify for.</p>
<p>just wondering but has anyone who turned in their application on the last day got any news from USC, like the USConnect e-mail? i’m getting really worried :(</p>
<p>I’m really worried as well. Turned in my application on January 27th and until now I didn’t get an email about the USConnect. :(</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten the email for USConnect, but I just visited the connect website this morning and requested a password, and finally got permitted a temporary password. Previous times I tried requesting a password I was denied.</p>
<p>I submitted my app at 2AM on February 1st, and I received my USConnect account. For those that didn’t receive an email, I would try going on <a href=“https://usconnect.usc.edu/[/url]”>https://usconnect.usc.edu/</a> and requesting a password. I requested a password and it worked, but I never got an email about creating a usconnect account.</p>
<p>When I click Application Status Check on usconnect it says:
"We have received your Common Application and USC Supplement, and it appears we need more information. Click on “My Admission Documents” in USConnect to see details "</p>
<p>But when I click on “My Admission Documents” it says “none” under required documents.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the same message?</p>