<p>So I was talking with one of my friends in admissions the other day...</p>
<p>Over 20,000 people applied this year. (I believe she said 23 thou?)</p>
<p>They plan on matriculating 1,400 this fall.</p>
<p>That means acceptances only went out to around 2,000 or less than 10% of applicants.</p>
<p>Also, your stats averaged a 4.0 gpa, 1420 sat.</p>
<p>oh geez, thats like the last thing i wanted to hear.....i still haven't heard from usc.................. :(</p>
<p>Are you sure about these figures. If so, is USC now more selective that Stanford? Here are the admit rates just put out by some of the most selective... </p>
<p>Harvard: 22,796 - 2,074 - 9.10%
Yale: 19,448 - 1,880 - 9.67%
Princeton: 16,516 - 1,807 - 10.94%
Stanford: 20,194 - 2,412- 11.94%
Columbia College 15,790 (up 5%), accepted 1638 -- 10.4%
Columbia SEAS 2,330, accepted 612 -- 26.3%
MIT: 10,439 - 1,495 - 14.32%
Brown: 16,297 - 2,463 - 14.6%
Darmouth: 12,615 - 2,149 - 17.03%
Penn: 18,823 - 3,912 - 20.8% (ED 1,170 of 3,420) - Mean SAT 1434
Duke: 18,000 - 3,949 - 21.94%
Georgetown: 15,274 - 3,199 students accepted - 20.9% - SAT 1340-1520
Northwestern: 16,100 - 4,784 - 29.71%</p>
<p>Those sound like really nice stats, but they are definitely not what I heard... I'd be EXTREMELY surprised that they are that good. I'm not denying your friend here, but this is just what "I" have heard about 'SC and its acceptance/admit info for the class of '09</p>
<p>SAT avg: 1395 (not 1420)
GPA: about a 4.0
Applicants: 31,000 (WAY more than 23,000... for the past few years (at the least) it's been around 28-29 thousand, I really doubt it would DROP this year)
Accepted: 25% (7,750 accepted out of 31,000)</p>
<p>'SC is getting more and more selective, but it's still no Stanford/Ivy with a below 10% acceptance rate... (then again, what IS a "Stanford/Ivy" BUT Stanford or an Ivy?).</p>
<p>The accepted percentage really probably ranges this year from 25-30 percent.</p>
<p>peals is right b/c they DO accept around 27%.. the only reason the number of students enrolled is so low (less than 2000 students) is only 34% of the acceptancees actually enroll. the school does that on purpose, so they'll have enough people to fill up the seats and if there arent enough, the waitlisted people come in.</p>
<p>I believe USC enrolls about 2,700-almost 3,000 students a year. That's what I thought, at least-- you might actually have the right stats.</p>
<p>Everything else in your post-- I believe you're totally right. Thanks for the reply. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, usually around 3000 enroll. Two years ago, my date was late in turning in the financial aid forms and so no fin aid came from USC before May 1st. I accepted another school. May 4th comes, and i get my fin aid from USC. My dad calls to see if they'd still take me, and they said that they were expecting something like 2800 to accept USC, but 3000 did, so they didn't know if they'd be able to take me.</p>
<p>according to the package USC sent me TWICE, it says at the top.. USC has more than 50000 applicants.. etc.
haha</p>
<p>you guys are including grad and international applicants in your applicant numbers...</p>
<p>But perhaps she was wrong on the number of acceptances that went out. She does work in the ug admissions office, and she said that acceptances were lower this year because they anitcipated a higher number than usual accepting.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure about the gpa/sat numbers though...I have heard those figures from a few people. You also have to take into account that those figures DO NOT include people that they have admitted for the spring semester or transfer students, since they are not included in these types of stats.</p>
<p>No, that can't be right.</p>
<p>Ok I just was at an accepted students reception. They had 32,000 applicants with about 8,000 acceptances. The most applicants but one of the smallest amount of acceptances. If anyone cares, in oregon there were 325 applicants with 125 acceptances.</p>
<p>At the accepted student banquet I attened in Houston they said they had over 32,000 applicants, and only had room for 2,700 people.</p>