@fahimi1351 Yes. NorCal is in the 1-day range from SoCal, so I should’ve received my package on Saturday, but I received my trustee package today.
May I ask where in Texas?
I’m really a technorube so I doubt I would be able to fill out that whole detailed questionnaire on Stats-but I can tell you he had: ACT 34 SAT 2 math 2 800 U.S. history 750 Physics 750 GPA weighted 4.48 UW 3.98 12 AP classes AP tests mostly 5’s. For his EC’s he was on 2 varsity sports-not a recruited athlete-many many hours deeply involved with sports for special needs children, NHS, Key Club and started his own charity. He was never President of a club or captain of a school team. Not a NMF. Mom and Dad both graduated from USC. Not applying for financial aid. His essays were good-he is more of a math type so we are not talking poetry here-and I’m sure his red letters were really good as the teachers asked to write them for him.
It seems as if no one who applied to Annenberg has received a packet yet. Maybe that means there is still hope for me 
Thank you @Xmamma ! Clearly your daughter has the numbers to get into UChicago, so I hope you get good news as well,
Part of me wishes I had never found this site because if I hadn’t I would still be blissfully unaware and a lot less anxious! But I would also be a lot less informed…it’s a blessing and a curse!
@katcon I feel your pain
Hey everyone! I just got my acceptance letter today and I’ll post my stats on the result page.
Good luck to everyone!
I received admittance today to Roski as a Presidential finalist. Non NMF. Im in CA bay area.
@katcon aren’t you rural? If so, I’m in the same situation, not sure how I feel about it lol. It’s nice to think that I may have a couple extra days for the mail to catch up to me, but seeing everyone else in all these big cities makes me feel a bit uneasy.
I was talking to my mom today, and it was pretty funny - she was talking about how in her day, an acceptance would show up unannounced one day in her mailbox. Nowadays, I know the 3 day span in which it might arrive, the color of the envelope, and heck, what most of the stuff is inside the envelope, before it has even gotten to my state 
Decision: Accepted
Date applied: 11/30
Date decision postmarked/received: Jan 23/Jan 24
Which school/major at USC:Marshall School of Business/Business Administration (Presidential Scholarship Finalist)
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2150 (CR: 670, M: 800, W: 680)
ACT (breakdown): 31 C (E: 30, M: 34, R: 32, S: 28) [Highest subscores (E: 33, M: 34, R: 32, S: 32)]
SAT II (breakdown): US History: (710), Math II (720)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
Weighted GPA: 4.80
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% of 585 students
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4) Calc AB (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP English & Literature, Physics (H), 4 College Courses (Writing 1, Writing 2, Statistics, & American Government)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar, Young Man of the Month (one senior selected each month), Graduating from both my high school and the local community college this spring (I will graduate with an AA Degree in May, then receive my high school degree in June!)
**Dual Enrollment Program is the reason why I have less AP Classes. The program started freshman year and each semester we take two college courses. These courses count as both high school and college credit and cover the same credit as AP classes (Psychology, World History, Goverment, etc.)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Leadership/Student Government (ASB President, Junior Class President, Sophomore Class Vice President), Confirmation (9th/10th grade), Soccer (4 years), Pink Ribbon Club President (3 years), Anti-Bullying Project Club Treasurer (3 years), Link Cru Leader (2 years)
Job/Work Experience: Currently working at Chick-fil-A since the end of Sophomore year (6/2013-present)
Volunteer/Community service: (weakest part of application) not too many hours (~40 hours): Soup Kitchen, Peer Court, Knights of Columbus Tootsie Roll Drive, American Red Cross Blood Drive Volunteer
Summer Activities: Worked during the summer, ‘stay’-cations, USC Summer Leadership Program (Marshall School of Business), Pepperdine Youth Citizenship Seminar Program, Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar (Chapman University)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 9/10? My English teacher said, “the best essay that I have read this year”. (but when I reread my submitted application there were two minor grammatical errors)
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 9? Both of my teachers are really kind and empathetic. I worked hard in both classes and made a personal connection with both of them!
Teacher Rec #1: Junior English H Teacher. Assuming it was strong! (9/10 out of 10?)
Teacher Rec #2: AP US History Teacher. Assuming it was strong! (8/9 out of 10?)
Counselor Rec: I’ve known him for four years and we have grown pretty close over the years!
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: I interviewed in August and I think it went really well. My interview lasted about 30 minutes and it was professional, yet casual. I ranked my interview a 9+/10
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Yes
State (if domestic applicant): Orange County, California
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $195,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Catholic
Reflection
Strengths: Leadership, Extracurricular Activities, Dual-Enrollment Program, Well-rounded student, Common App essay
Weaknesses: SAT/ACT, Community service,
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think my interview really showed my personality and after visiting USC multiple times, I honestly think I am a good match for USC.
Where else you are applying or have already applied: Boston College (Accepted Early Action), UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Penn, Northeastern, Cal Poly SLO, University of Washington
General Comments/Advice/Hindsight:
For anybody wondering, the online portal has updated and shows explore USC information.
ACCEPTED!
School curriculum: IB
- Ethnicity: Indian
- School: Private international, ranking in top 10 IB day schools of India.
GPA: Roughly 3.9-4.0 (my school does not calculate it)
SAT: 2190 superscore
CR 710 M 740 W 740
SAT II - 710 M2 720 Spanish Reading
International so TOEFL: 119
30 Reading 30 Writing 30 Listening 29 Speaking
9 and 10 IGCSE Courseload and final grade:
English Lang - A*
English Lit- A*
Physics Extended- A*
Chemistry Extended- A*
Math Extended- A
Spanish Extended- A*
Economics- A*
History- A*
Information and Communication Technology- A
IB Courseload:
English HL
Economics HL
Physics HL
Math SL
Spanish B SL
Theatre SL
TOK
Predicted: Don’t know. But can be between 39-40/42
Major Awards:
- Highest academic achiever in grades 9 and 10
- Winner of TOEFL India Learners Awards- top 10 from all students in India receive a grant of $7000. More than a 1000 apply.
- Outstanding in community service
- Outstanding in English HL
Come from a non-competitive school. Otherwise, winner of national level spell bees twice, speech competition in 2010.
Community service: +200 hrs
Volunteer at:
- Operation Smile
- Dam project in India for displaced victims
- Habitat for Humanity
- Dance and theatre teacher for underprivileged
- Founder of arts non profit The Dream Project and Foundation and started a legacy of theatre festivals in my school
- Independent organizer of cancer seminars
ECs:
- Light and theatre set design - worked on Asia’s first production of Sunshine on Leith
- Marathon running
- Dance: Dancer on scholarship, train more than 10 hours a week in jazz, ballet, contemporary and Bollywood
- Pianist, Keyboard and Tabla player
- Mandarin, Italian and Arabic self-study
- Zumba: I’m one of India’s youngest instructors
- Co-founder and editor of my school’s magazine
- Member of Relay For Life organizing committee
- Head of Registrations for TEDxYouth@OIS
- Blogging on TheDesiBallerina
- Varsity badminton and basketball player
- Chair of Human Rights Commission and ECOSOC at MUNs including HMUN
Leadership role
- Founder of Dream Project - school’s first ever charitable theatre festival where I directed and supervised 6 plays and raised 100,000 rupees
- Zumba classes
- Self initiated runner
- TEDx
Internships:
- Digital Media Associate with The Indian Economist
- Social media manager with V Designs, India’s first vegan firm
- Overseas internship with Sudar Global FZE in Middle Eastern trade, did a lot of writing
Essays: CommonApp was very personal. Related it to being a superhero in my own way with my fascination with quantum physics and a very personal incident in my life.
Recs: Waived FERPA. But every recommender of mine knows me extremely well. The one from my dance teacher was apparently phenomenal.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid? No
Reflection
Strengths: Leadership, Extracurricular Activities, Well-rounded student, Common App essay, Probably Recs
Weaknesses: SAT scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Probably my essays and ECs. They were quite different.
Where else you are applying or have already applied: Brown, Barnard, Pitzer, NYU Gallatin, Haverford, UVA, UMich Ann Arbor, UCB, UCLA,
Indiana Bloomington and Rutgers- Accepted
When did you receive package in India and how was it received? I am from Ahmedabad and waiting for some good news eagerly. I have 2300 SAT, 800 Math2, 790 Bio M and Chem, 116 TOEFL.
@StevenToCollege , my son got that yesterday, too. I almost tossed it out as junk mail (in the excitement of getting the big yellow packet,) But it seems legit and a very big deal Congrats. No money, from what I can tell, but a big honor and possibly an expense-paid trip to D,C,
@emhelm13 , My son is a legacy ( 36 ACT/2370 SAT) and he got invited to interview for Trustee. That said, I do think it is tougher for legacy applicants to get the big scholarship offers because they know you’re likely to go to USC anyway. (My other 2 sons both had 34 on the ACT and 2270 on the SAT and did not get the early package, though second son got a NMF presidential.) I’m not sure what to tell you about friends with lower stats getting theirs. But hang in there! With your score and legacy status, you are very likely ro get accepted in March. Fight on!
@ARandomGeek yes, I’m in a rural area too. It’s unsettling but also comforting because it’s the source of my last little bit of hope. Fingers crossed!
@arjunn11 Is there an additional link under “Visit USC” for the explore USC information?
My question still comes down to: if you applied by Dec 1 and do not get a packet this week, do you still get any early notification of whether you’re accepted, denied, or deferred? Or do you have to wait until end of March? It’s tough to think that if you made the effort to apply by Dec 1 that you might not hear anything until end of March. Any thoughts? Thanks. And congrats to all those who’ve relayed good news here. That’s amazing!
@lovehawaii5 you will get a letter this week letting you know that you are still in the pool of applicants who will receive their final decision by April 1.