<p>@ayookr to clarify the whole summer/winter session non-traditional time format thingy, it differs from college to college. Because my school’s summer session is 12 weeks, they count it as part of the academic year. Other schools may not count summer or winter sessions as part of their academic school year, and that is what makes it “non-traditional format”</p>
<p>@bomerr @happylifemachine so what am I supposed to do? I go to a community college right now, after spring semester I will have 54 units. Should I apply as econ or what? surely I can transfer in as an econ major and switch right?</p>
<p>also, just because I have over 30 units doesn’t make me a junior…</p>
<p>Just apply to whatever you are passionate about and see yourself doing. Don’t try and play the system with molding yourself into something you’re not even about. Just be an honest applicant about what you want to do and the rest will follow.</p>
<p>Been thinking about transferring to USC it’s definitely on the list </p>
<p>After obsessively going through this year’s and last year’s transfer thread, I have finally decided to post! </p>
<p>I still have not decided with 100% certainty whether I will be applying for the Fall 2015 semester. I currently have 31.5 units completed with a 3.6 GPA (I messed up pretty badly in a history class a couple of semesters back 
) that I hope to bump up to 3.67 after the upcoming winter session. I would be applying to Annenberg as a Communications major with either Annenberg PR or Dornsife Narrative Studies as my second choice (the dream is to work in the film industry). Not sure how much it matters, but I work for Disney and do a lot of volunteering through them. I had a lot of ECs in high school (I was a cheerleader, did student government, had my own column in the newspaper, was on the board for many clubs, etc…), but work/family commitments have made it almost impossible to get involved whilst in college. I have completed all the GE requirements (minus the FL requirement - I only have one semester) and the “suggested” Stats requirement for the Communications major. </p>
<p>For the time being, my USC app is just kind of…simmering in Common App. 
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<p>Is anyone applying to Marshall with less than Calculus 1 completed? I am transferring with Business Calculus in process during Spring.</p>
Hey everyone, I’m having trouble understanding the Common App’s teacher evaluation. It says we need at least 1, and when I went to the transfer day seminar at USC a few weeks ago, the advisors were calling this a “letter of recommendation.” Were they referring to the teacher evaluation on the USC’s section of the Common App or are these two separate things?
Also, I found this online as a “sample” evaluation sheet. Is this what our professors will be seeing when we invite them?
http://blog.commonapp.org/2014/09/23/writing-a-strong-letter-of-recommendation/ – about mid-way down you can find the link to a PDF file.
@poisonx I’m taking Business Calc next semester, I will only have that for math. But according to the Transfer Planning Guide, I should be fine.
MATH REQUIREMENT
1) COMPLETE MATH118 (OR HIGHER LEVEL CALCULUS COURSE):
SELECT FROM: MATH118 ={MATH 119B}
MATH125 ={MATH 122}
MATH126 ={MATH 123 OR MATH 222}
MATH226 ={MATH 224}
OR, COMPLETE AN APPROVED APPLIED BUSINESS CALCULUS
COURSE IN TRANSFER:
SELECT FROM: TR-APPCALC={MATH 115}
This is for my school, you might want to check if your school’s Business Calculus class is is approved.
@HappyLifeMachine
You can just put a blank email address in the evaluation section since USC does not require it. Or you can actually invite your teachers.
A letter of rec can be physically sent in by a non teacher or advisor if you wish as well.
@bomerr Thank you, is the letter of recommendation also required? I’m confused because the transfer advisors stated that at least 1 was required, but at the below link it says that it is optional.
http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/transfer/prospective/checklist.html
Also a general question for anyone else: I did a course that fulfilled Category I last year. This year, however, my college created a new sequence and the course names got switched around. So this year’s articulation agreement includes that course, but not my old one, and the articulation agreement from Spring 2014 still includes the course I took. Am I okay?
Thank you!
@HappyLifeMachine
Common App’s system requires 1 advisor but USC doesn’t require any. Ao you are free to send or not send any letters of rec.
@bomerr Thank you! My professor has asked about formatting a letter of recommendation. Would you happen to know if this at all matters?
@HappyLifeMachine
Put it on official school lettering (idk if that’s the proper term) so it looks high quality and proper.
As for content, just go with the usually letter of rec stuff.
@bomerr I see, great. Thanks again for all the help!
Do you guys know what to do with the advisor for the Common App? Do you just give them a name of any, or did you go to your campus and ask them what name to give?
I wish to transfer from a four-year, private, #95 university (based on the U.S. News Ranking) to USC’s College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (Dornsife) as a first-choice Asian American Studies or a second-choice American Studies and Ethnicity major. I am undeclared as of now and have just completed my 1st semester in college with a GPA of 3.33 (this is based on my institution’s grading scale, of course). Could anyone give me an idea, based on these stats, how great or low my chances are for admission into USC Dornsife?
hi everyone,
Im a student at a community college in new jersey and and I have taken 44 credits at my community college. I know that it says that if you have completed over 30 credits of college coursework USC primarily looks at your college transcripts, but does it have to be transferable courses to count. Right now I’m unsure of how many credits are actually going to transfer it could be all of them, it could be 15. So if i only do have 15 transferable credits will they focus on my high school work, because it’s terrible
I hope that made sense lol!
@Numbersz I would assume that you have to name your advisor as he or she is named on your school’s faculty list. Regardless, I don’t think admission officers will be too picky about this.
@summertime123 I’m almost certain that it doesn’t matter if the credits transfer or not. If they are college level credits (not remedial), and you have over 30, it should be okay. You do have to send the transcripts anyway, which is really annoying for me too… I only have two years of HS, but a 4.0 in college, we’ll see if that hurts me.
@aec7777 Thanks. I was just wondering because I go to a community college, and we are not assigned advisors. So I guess I’ll go on Monday and see which name to put.