<p>Hi!
I was wondering if anyone got this at the end of their rejection paragraph,
"After reviewing your application, we determined that you are among a special group of students whose eventual enrollment at USC is of great interest to us. As such, we have set aside the final weeks in June..."</p>
<p>I don't know if this is a generated message to everyone or if I really am a part of the "special group of students" or just the fact that I am a legacy. </p>
<p>Hope the best for everyone :)</p>
<p>In the past, that language has been sent to the legacies who are getting gently turned away. But they are serious about those final weeks in June, and counseling you how to get in.</p>
<p>A vast majority of the students that get this are legacy students. However, when they say special, they mean special, so take this as far better than just a plain rejection!</p>
<p>Agree with mochiman, this is better than just a plain rejection. If you are serious about USC and can attend the transfer meeting in june I would go. My S #2 got this same letter when he was rejected way back when.</p>
<p>@bbgg
Did your son attend this transfer session, and if he did, did USC really help those students who got rejected make transferring easier? I got rejected today and received the same paragraph about this.</p>
<p>I got this too, and I am also a legacy. I just don’t feel any motivation to do much now, haha. I guess this signals more rejections to come for me this week. great. I don’t think I’m going to consider transferring to USC.</p>
<p>I’m a legacy and I got that language too. Geez, if I’d know there were going to be 46,000 applications and only 2,650 acceptances, I’m not sure I would have applied. That’s crazy.</p>
<p>whats a ‘legacy’? and @socaguy i think they accepted about 8000 applicants… 2600 is the freshman class size i think</p>
<p>how much “legacy” do you guys who got rejected have? one parent, two, grandparents, etc.</p>
<p>@steph:
legacy means you have a family member who graduated from the school.</p>
<p>Mom and grandpa.</p>
<p>@childish ohhh haha that makes sense! thank you</p>
<p>Keep your heads up guys/girls. I’m sure many of you were very qualified. Be appreciate some of you received the opportunity to transfer under the “Trojan Plan.” If you’re interested in attending USC in the near future, I would definitely attend their advising.</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m currently a prospective Sophomore transfer applicant. I’ve been on the transfer boards since April 2010 (when I found out I was denied admission as a freshman). You can find the link below to this year’s current transfer thread. If any of you guys have any questions or concerns about transferring, post over there or shoot me a PM. </p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1200985-official-usc-2012-transfer-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1200985-official-usc-2012-transfer-thread.html</a></p>
<p>PS. I’ll most likely made a thread tomorrow after a few more applicants receive their letters. I know when I was a Sr, I was unsure of where to turn about the transfer process. I’m just repaying the favor.</p>
<p>Also, for those wondering what is “The Trojan Transfer Plan.”</p>
<p>I sent this to the OP:
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<p>I got it but I’m not a legacy! my sat was a 2060 and i have like a 4.08 weighted gpa. Is this a guarantee of getting in after a year or no?</p>
<p>uscco2016 - Thank you for starting this thread. My son has that paragraph in the decline letter he received today; and he is a legacy. However, we’ve been accepted to Arizona State with a $40K scholarship. But if he wants to transfer after a year or so, we’ll support that. </p>
<p>I will show him this thread. I appreciate all the info from everybody!</p>
<p>I got this on my rejection letter, too.</p>
<p>I don’t have any family members that have graduated from USC, but my dad works for the school and my sister is currently in her third year at USC. Does that make me a legacy?</p>
<p>We got this message as well. It helps to take the edge off a little bit but I am still pretty bitter at my daughter’s rejection. She has parents who are both USC faculty and who both bring in extramural grant funding to good old USC (with millions in indirect costs that USC skims off the top). In fact we have slaved away enriching this institution, probably to the point that we neglected our daughter’s preparation for school to an extent. And, after giving our all for Troy, what do we get? A thin letter.
USC speaks of their commitment to the members of the “Trojan Family”. Well, that sort of talk sounds pretty hollow to us right now. All we get is a silly little paragraph that promises nothing. Not even a personal note from any of our fellow USC faculty on the admissions committee. Nothing. I am SURE there are many kids admitted today with worse qualifications than my daughter. From my perspective, the Trojan Family is a fraud.
By the way, neither my wife or I attended USC as students. Neither of us could afford it. But, I guess that is the qualification for the Trojan Family that we missed. The qualification that reads: “Must come from old money.”
Good luck to all of you who did get in. I hope it turns out to be a great place for you.</p>
<p>U mad tho?</p>
<p>I think this message is unique and is like Cornell’s “Transfer Option” that they offer to Freshman rejects – essentially, go to school somewhere else, get good grades in required courses, and you have an auto-admit as a Sophomore. </p>
<p>What do you prefer – this transfer paragraph that you received, or the waitlist paragraph with no pathway to entry? The letter you got is not an outright rejection: it seems to me to be a glidepath into Sophmore year.</p>
<p>This little paragraph goes to many types of Trojan family members. We know of other, high academic rank, faculty who also got the paragraph in their rejection letters. Furthermore, we also know of children of non-academic office support employees who also to the same offer to talk about transfer. So, this small consolation added to the rejection letter is not very exclusive. We will of course sit down with them sometime in June and find out what they are actually offering. But, given the fact that so many get this stipulation, I suspect the offer will fall significantly short of even a conditional guarantee.
As Mr. Incredible said, “When everybody’s special, nobody’s special.”</p>