<p>Does USC send acceptances to certain parts of the US (and OOS) at certain times?</p>
<p>I'm from Northern California and I still havent got anything yet.
Has anyone received anything in norcal yet??</p>
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When a batch of mail is dropped in a mailbox, the letters adressed to the person who lives down the street will be received sooner than those addressed to the person who lives on the other side of the continent.</p>
<p>USC is not making piles of acceptances based on your zip code, that is just the way the US mail works.</p>
<p>There was a mailing on Friday. Southern California started getting them Saturday. Northern California will start getting them today and tomorrow, and so on… But this is NOT the last mailing - there will be more.</p>
<p>It does seem that Marshall and SCA have not heard anything yet, but that is not dependent on location.</p>
<p>Norcal reporting in…nothing yet, but my mailman has not come by yet. Anxiously waiting!!I see on another thread that someone in NJ got theirs…the mail must move east quickly.</p>
<p>Mail came today but nothing yet. A fellow norcaler.</p>
<p>My mailman just came, and my son received his packet from USC. Hope it is an acceptance…I have to wait until he gets home from school to see what is says. Good luck to everyone else in the bay area!!</p>
<p>Do the waves come in order of preference or are they just similar to rolling admissions? I.e., is someone who gets accepted in this wave (I am excluding scholarship applicants here) better than someone who gets accepted in a later wave? As in, do they accept the applicants they like best first or is it more random?</p>
<p>^i second this question. I looked at lasts years decisions threads though and I’m pretty sure the weaker ones get sent out last. So I don’t really expect to hear from them until the end of march if I get accepted or april if I get rejected. Oh fun, lol.</p>
<p>^ not always true. I got accepted before my girlfriend did (she just got hers today), but i had weaker grades and SAT. I was a merit scholarship nominee, though.</p>
<p>Are they perhaps doing these waves by region? Or maybe are they going in order by when applications were turned in?</p>
<p>I ask because I applied in late october or early november and my status has not budged from “being reviewed”</p>
<p>My status is still “We have received your grades”. I just don’t know what to think because my stats are higher than some people who are being accepted- USC was borderline safety for me. :/</p>
<p>USC will send acceptances this week and next week. So if you haven’t received your acceptance, there is still hope!!</p>
<p>applewater-do you know if they have a specific mailing day for this week or are they just continuously going out?</p>
<p>From last year and the previous years, USC tends to send a batch on Fridays. That’s why SoCal people get them on Saturday and NorCal people get them on Monday.</p>
<p>okay cool-thank you so much for your help!</p>
<p>Arctic92- did she apply before the December 1st deadline for scholarship consideration? If not, that may explain it. But you’re right, It’s definitely not always true since they have the whole holistic approach with admissions, but if you check it out you’ll definitely see that the high SAT/GPA kids get in first, while towards the end of March you’ll see kids admitted with SAT’s below 1900 and UW GPA’s around 3.5.</p>
<p>Yep, she did. iirc schools each get a number of scholarships they can award, and im guessing that architecture (me) and pre-med (her) had different student bases to pick from haha…</p>
<p>oops, nvm, she did CLAS (asian american studies) instead of pre-med.</p>
<p>Just a note… there is no such thing as a premed or prelaw major. You major in whatever you want while taking the necessary prereqs for those professional schools.</p>
<p>^some schools actually do have a major called ‘pre-med’ or ‘pre-law’…fyi.</p>