Hi! I applied to Annenberg for PR (1st choice major) Communications (2nd choice major).
I was hoping anyone who is currently a student at Annenberg or got accepted can help reassure me.
I originally was gonna apply to Marshall and therefore have a lot of business-related extracurriculars. Won business pitch competitions and competed in national comps, finance summer camp at UPenn, 2nd place in finance investment comp, started an entrepreneurship club at school. My other EC’s include working as a hostess at a restaurant, volunteer at the holocaust museum, prose and poetry interpretations competitions, student engagement coordinator for my school, mock trial, French National Honor Society Secretary, and men’s lacrosse manager.
But this year I realized I didn’t want to major in business. PR will help me get to what I want to do. However, I am still interested in entrepreneurship in relation to PR. I wish I took some time to explain this on my application, but I didn’t :(. I wrote my ‘why USC’ essay about wanting to use my foundation in PR to work for social justice and centered it specifically around Annenberg. I wrote my other USC supplement essay on my interest in philosophy and how it can help me in my PR studies to work for social justice.
Did anyone else get into Annenberg with EC’s not related to their major? Do you think they will look down upon me never participating in some type of journalism EC’s? I think my essays are really good. I also got an amazing rec from my English teacher.
USC is my top choice and I’m sort of regretting not applying to Marshal because of my EC’s, but I genuinely wanted to apply for what I was interested in.