<p>you sent an extra essay? should i do that too? because i also reallly reallly want to go there. let me know. thanks!</p>
<p>i heard if ur jewish u have a good chance 2 get in. thats wut some superiors were saying i easedroped</p>
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<p>hell no. why would that make even an iota of difference?</p>
<p>In December 2002, or sometime that year, there was a lengthy article in the LA Times about USC's desire to improve their reputation among Jews in Southern California. This community represents the second largest population of Jews in the U.S. Over the years there had been just enough anti-Semitic incidents at USC to convince Jews that the school was not the place for them. Apparently they preferred UCLA as their first choice. USC wanted to overcome this reputation, especially since many of the senior administrators at USC were Jews and clearly things had changed there, and increase the number of Jewish students. They did this by hiring someone in the admissions office whose job it was to recruit Jewish applicants. They also published a pamphlet on Jewish life at USC and created several scholarships aimed at Jewish students were funded. </p>
<p>My son made it a point to specifically request that pamphlet so that it was know to the admissions office that he was Jewish. Similarly, the recruiter for the part of the country that we lived in was Jewish, and he also let her know.</p>
<p>Now I'm not saying that it made any difference because my son's credentials more than qualified him for admission to USC when he entered in 2003. But he did receive a Trojan Scholarship, something that you cannot apply for and is given solely at the discretion of the school.</p>
<p>In response to Tawny:</p>
<p>What the hell? You had better stats than alot of people on here who got accepted...</p>
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<p><em>Confused</em></p>
<p>I have no idea if she's still on this board, but a few reasons, probably. First of all, she applied to the cinema school. That has a way lower acceptance rate. Based on the way she wrote that post, I guess(not sure, don't know the person), that they didn't get into the film school, and thus considered coming as an undeclared student a bad idea. Also, USC is becoming more and more selective, and these strange things can occasionally happen as a result.</p>
<p>Ah. I did not know she had applied to the cinema school.</p>
<p>but she got into harvard....?!!!!?!</p>
<p>i know people with higher scores than her who were flat out rejected from harvard.</p>
<p>college admissions are so stupid.</p>