<p>When do RHP applicants get notified if they are accepted/rejected? Is it usually the time when regular USC applicants get their decisions? Thank you.</p>
<p>penny said she'd call me in january.
rhp kids find out when ppl considered for merit scholarships find out
im thinking it will be closer to the end of january rather than the beginning</p>
<p><em>drums fingers on desk</em> <em>looks at clock</em>
I WANT TO KNOWWWW!!</p>
<p>I've been dying to know since the second I turned my application by hand on November 22, 2006 at 2:38 pm. (okay, i'll be honest, not sure the exact time, but between 2:30 and 3:00).
I'm just curious socks, does RHP admission officers do a holistic approach or put emphasis on SAT/Grades.</p>
<p>hmm im not really sure about their approach. i know that sat/act is pretty important. penny said rhp kids must have test scores and gpas equal or higher to the top 10% of all other freshman applicants. its definitely harder to get into RHP than USC. </p>
<p>that said they really do want responsible mature and interesting kids. kids who do stuff, have special talents, etc etc</p>
<p>what score did you submit to them?</p>
<p>what does RHP mean? collegeconfidential really needs a list of acronyms...</p>
<p>resident honors program. it's a very selective program where students forego their senior year of high school and go directly to USC.</p>
<p>Cue current HS seniors who ask why on earth someone would want to skip their senior year. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>why on earth would someone want to skip their senior year?</p>
<p>well for me... i want to be an MD and that takes hella years so i want to start ASAP</p>
<p>plus i hate living at home which i am currently doing</p>
<p>oh man am i nervous for this. where is everybody from that applied this year?</p>
<p>I'm from los angeles</p>
<p>well, out of the USC board, I think socks, me, and zee9449 are only people applying. Tell me if I'm missing anyone. This years application pool looks small, according to my brief chat with Diane talking about last year application pool. Hopefully all of us can get in.
Well reason I'm applying is because I don't like school and I would rather learn history at USC and have better education than learn history at my high school. I mean, cmon! I tried to challenge myself by taking AP history classes but all the teacher ever talks about is "this is what we need to know to pass the exam!"I would rather do deeper into a historical event and learn how it occured because of the past and how it affected the future.</p>
<p>What else to talk about. I'll be extremely honest with you guys. I am VERY nervous right now. Decisions are coming up and my mom gave a call to Diane couple days ago to make sure that everything was there. She just said she sent my application to a committee. I think that means my application is currently being looked at by a committe. I am very happy because just getting considered for RHP is an honor for me. </p>
<p>zee9449 do you mind sharing your stats with us? I will glady share my stats as well.</p>
<p>im sure u can find my stats all around this board but ill do a quick summary here-</p>
<p>4.0 unweighted frosh&soph
4.0 uw right now, 4.43 weighted
ACT: 33 comp
current classes-ap us history, honors chemistry, ap envosci, pre-calc, french 4, spanish 3, american lit
EC's: ballet dancer (25 hrs/week), i am a director of a youth dance company (12 hrs/week), GSA, Key Club</p>
<p>well here is mine
1st generation college student
3.2-3.4 in freshman (1 honors class... that year there was a family medical problem so I had to get a job and etc.)
4.0 in sophmore (2 aps and 1 honors)
I am not sure about weighted GPA or what not but should be around the 4.1 or 4.2 mark
SAT: 2070 (620 CR 730 M 720 Writing- essay 11)
SATII: Biology 680, World History 700
AP scores: AP Bio- 4 AP World History-5
current classes- AP Env. Science, AP English, AP US History, Spanish 3, Precalc, journalism
EC's-
Editor in chief of newspaper (revived it) (25-30 hours a week), President of Volunteer Services at a volunteer organization (not school related and around 14-16 hours a week)
President of Journalism club (4-5 hours a week)
President and founder of Debate club (10-12 hours a week)
I have around 800-900 community service hours (not sure if it is a hook)
Awards: lots of volunteer awards from president to mayor and couple writing awards (one writing award from a council member in LA)</p>
<p>Teacher recommendation: I haven't read them but I'm pretty sure the recs are pretty good. I had high marks in the classes. </p>
<p>Essays: Revised it couple times and I have a strong grasp on writing. Wrote about my passion for volunteering, wrote about my important activity, which was journalism and showed the struggle I went through to revive newspaper, I wrote about my passion for history and why I want to study at USC, and my supplement essay, I wrote about my family problems in 9th grade. </p>
<p>I actually e-mailed Penny some new info about my newspaper. I just gave her a link to the online newspaper I worked on and showed her couple journalism awards that I got for a story. Not sure if it is good to e-mail new info, but I just had to. </p>
<p>I think I'm going overboard with the stats, heh. It's Sunday night and I'm waiting for Family guy to come on and I got nothing to do.</p>
<p>Socks, what was your essays about?</p>
<p>edit// Boy what a bummer. I checked the website a second ago and my GPA and SAT scores barely made the minimum. I am praying the admission process is holistic. I seriously want to get out of high school and do research at USC and actually learn.</p>
<p>I can't believe Junior students in high school have these kinds of stats.</p>
<p>did you think that their stats would change from being crappy to impressive when going from a junior to a senior?</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>symphonyinblack,
well, I'm just briefly looking at thes stats. Those EC's, in the high school I used to attend, did not come by often and if it did, only seniors had that kind of EC's. Sorry if I sounded like a *******.</p>
<p>I can't believe they sensored me. I'm not changing that word.</p>
<p>Where are you from socks?
I'm applying from Vancouver. </p>
<p>3.6 in fresh, 4.0 in soph, now i have a 3.8 uw/4.2 w
SAT: 2090
Student Exec member, former chair for 4 years, all that etc.
current ap classes: AP Micro-Economics, AP Macro-Economics, AP Human Geography
- my school does not allow sophs to take AP classes.. i am seriously hoping this doesnt ruin me.
-member of culture club, ex-mvp for rugby, black belt taekwondo, won a few writing contests, lead role in school play for 4 years, won public speaking competition, actor (for Milk, Pepsi commercials)
- As a filmmaker my movies (i either produced, wrote or directed them) have played in dozens of film festivals including Montreal World Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Berkeley Film and Video Festival, and Palm Springs Short Film Festival.
- Recently directed film that was the first to use a new type of cinematic camera outside of LA, am currently in marketing and promotion of the film.
- recs and letters should be good.</p>
<p>man.. the wait is killling me!</p>
<p>Zee, the wait is killing me as well! I'm going crazy and I am beginning to have dreams about USC! How freaky is that!
Zee, just curious if you have any films you can show us. I really would like to seem them because I'm a huge movie fan.</p>
<p>ahhh i have at least two usc dreams a week.</p>