<p>Its clear from last years thread that ppl are accepted 4 the spring semester.</p>
<p>Why do they do that?
and, Who do they do that for?</p>
<p>Hoping i might have a chance for that, being that IM still being reviewed (never been forwarded)</p>
<p>Unlike most colleges, USC doesn’t use an official waitlist for fall semester, so admitting people for spring gives us a little room to be able to meet quota - if there aren’t enough people enrolled for fall, USC will bump up some spring admits to fall. Spring admits at USC generally have the lower exam scores/GPAs, so by enrolling them for fall, their statistics don’t go towards USC’s numbers for the incoming fall freshman class, allowing USC to play the numbers game… I remember reading someone else’s post who said that spring admits are the kids who had the personality to go to USC (from their essay/extracurriculars) but not necessarily the highest stats to back them up. A lot of other people are under the impression that lots of spring admits = legacies, but I don’t think there’s much solid information to back that up.</p>
<p>So a spring admit who wants to go to USC just gets a semester off?</p>
<p>^ my same question.</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>Spring admits would start January 2011. They can do a mini gap-year activity in the fall, or take community college courses to get a start on general education requirements, or work to put some spending money aside, or just sleep in and play video games.</p>
<p>Or actually attend another university for the first semester. I know of 2 who went to UCI and took courses that could transfer to USC.</p>
<p>so, when do u think they will get the forwarded status (or does anyone think the spring admits have them already)?</p>
<p>If you get accepted as a Spring Admit and decide to take classes at another school during the fall, would you accept the offer for both schools or what?</p>
<p>My daughter was a spring admit at USC. She applied for fall 2008. She was accepted for Spring 2009. If she had to do it over again she would have attended another school. When you are admitted in Spring your chances of getting a dorm are very unlikely. She had horrible housing. She was behind the row in a very old apartment. They throw you in with whoever has an opening. So you don’t get the dorm experience, and you don’t get to move in with all of the new freshman. It makes it hard to meet people, and my daughter is very outgoing. If you have other good schools you have been accepted to I would really consider those. My daughter was accepted to tons of good schools for fall entrance, but she would only consider USC. Now she wishes she had been more open minded. Also USC likes you to go to a JC your first semester, because JC’s are in the business of transferring, unlike 4 year colleges, but you can do either it might just be harder to transfer units from another 4 year. My son is entering USC this fall. He has been accepted to the film school. I hope his experience is much better than my daughters. My advice to you if you get a spring admit is to keep in constant contact with housing, and try to get a dorm, or at least a decent apartment close to campus.</p>
<p>^^ Yes, you would accept the offer at both universities. I know of one girl who was thrilled to be accepted by USC for Spring last year. She chose to attend another private four-year for the Fall semester - she loved it so much at the other school she decided to stay there.</p>
<p>Which just illustrates that there are lots of great opportunities out there for all of you. She didn’t think she would be happy anywhere else and was so relieved to be accepted for Spring, but it turned out the perfect school for her was one she would not have considered if she had been admitted to USC for Fall.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Edit - I think taylor29’s and my post go together very nicely. The message is, as taylor29 says, keep an open mind! I LOVE USC, but there might be another of your options that is perfect for you. Consider them all carefully.</p>
<p>@ taylor & alamemom</p>
<p>I completely agree with you, but some people have to consider the programs they want to attend.</p>
<p>IF I were to be accepted to USC’s SCA for the Spring, and would get rejected by my first choice program (FSU film school) but accepted to FSU for fall, I would most likely have to stick with USC. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Of course! I am not saying you shouldn’t choose USC Spring admission, I am saying you should keep an open mind. (My comments are also directed at those who might not be accepted to USC at all - there are other great universities where you will be happy. Really.)</p>
<p>Speaking from experience of two spring admits it makes sense to go to a jc to get a few ges out of the way. My oldest went to a different 4 year private university because she was accepted there for film as well. Confirmed to her why she wanted to be a Trojan. </p>
<p>Younger one went to a jc, and had a bit of a longer summer. </p>
<p>Both entered in spring, did their sport as an entree into SC life. Oldest adored SC from the first day, younger liked it…and then LOVED it in the fall.</p>
<p>^^This is true. USC WAS my first choice until I was called down to FSU for a mandatory interview with the film school. After walking the entire campus and taking the film school tour twice, I fell in love. The only thing I dislike about FSU is the location isn’t so great compared to USC.</p>
<p>Actually, now that I think about it, one of my D’s friends was rejected in 2008. But she appealed, and won, and was admitted for the spring semester. She attended another college for fall and liked it there a lot, but did decide on USC. In her case she did get decent housing on campus in a dorm, and she’s happy she made the switch.
It’s just hard to predict.
For spring admits, some are bumped to fall. I believe the SCA students may have a better chance at this because of SCA’s required track.</p>
<p>I was a Spring Admit 2 years ago, but I ultimately decided to attend another institution. If you decide to attend USC during Spring, be aware of how different the experience may be.</p>
<p>For one, as mentioned above, you will likely not get housing. I have a few friends who were Spring Admits at USC and a majority of them lived in apartments their first year. This kinda sucks because you miss out on the whole dorm experience. When you’re in the dorms, many people your age are literally 10 steps away from you (door to door). When you’re living in apartments, you’re likely to live with upperclassmen, who are likely to be unsocial toward the underclassmen (that’s just the way it is, people want to hang out with people their age and year). Of course this is not always the situation, but it tends to happen. In addition, only one of my friends was able to get a dorm, and it was in Trojan Hall, which btw, is one of the crappiest dorms USC has to offer. It literally felt like a prison inside, especially with all the bolted bars on the windows.</p>
<p>Along with starting in Spring, keep in mind you will feel a bit…lonely. All of your high school friends will be starting school during the Fall while you’re still at home in community college. You probably won’t see them again until winter break and even then when they’re all bragging about how fun their experience was, you’ll probably just smile and look pretty because you have nothing to say. However, this would only be temporary as you would start school after winter break.</p>
<p>Lastly, keep in mind on the things you will miss out on during the Fall. As a freshman, you won’t be able to attend fall football games at the Coliseum (football is a big deal at USC), you won’t be able to attend CONQUEST (spirit rally before the UCLA game), you won’t be able to attend the Welcome Week Concert at the beginning of the year (usually has a cool band playing, 2 years ago they had HelloGoodBye). You also miss out on making a lot of friends. During Fall, all the freshman don’t know each other so it’s very normal and casual to just talk to random people in a hall or even in an elevator. When Spring arrives, everyone kinda knows each other and has their own niche so this intensity of socializing dies down. You’re essentially on your own for making your own group of friends. Fear not though, if you join clubs and commit to them, you’ll easily find your group of friends there.</p>
<p>So yeah, just some heads up and things to be aware of if you decide to go to USC during the Spring. Unless USC is the DREAM SCHOOL, OMG I MUST GO HERE type of school for you, I’d suggest you look elsewhere. Or in other cases, if another school such as UC Riverside is your 2nd choice after USC…then you should strongly consider USC, haha 
No offense to the Highlanders out there :P</p>
<p>As for the housing situation, I’d recommend looking around facebook at the end of fall semester because a lot of freshman guys/girls move into their fraternity/sorority houses spring semester and post everywhere to find a replacement! And most of them are in great freshman dorms, like New/North and Birnkrant. You just need to stay on top of housing and take it into your own hands, otherwise you probably will get stuck in an apartment with upperclassmen. </p>
<p>Sure, people have made friends already, but people at USC are awesome and I know my floor made sure that all of our spring admits felt really welcome! We all knew it was hard being thrown into an already established environment, and we wanted to make it easier! We’re cool people (we go to USC, duh) and if you’re a spring admit, you definitely just need to be open and a little outgoing; you’ll find some really receptive people, trust me. I personally loved the new blood on my floor. It spiced things up. :)</p>
<p>And so you’ll miss out on a fall semester… but I know lots of spring admits who went to all the football games and things (obviously lived in SoCal) so it doesn’t have to be a total loss! USC is legit, and being a spring admit will not be rough if you don’t let it.</p>
<p>My son was a spring admit to the SCA a couple years ago. For him, it was a tough choice to say yes to spring admission, but because the SCA presented such a unique opportunity, he felt it was worth waiting for. So he made plans to go for a semester in the Amazon with N.O.L.S. He was actually getting really excited about that, but then found out sometime in May that he was moved up to fall admission. Depending on enrollment, USC does use the spring admit group as a sort of waiting list, and will move people up if space becomes available.</p>
<p>BTW, I don’t think the earlier post is quite fair or accurate when stating that spring admits have lower stats because USC wants to exclude them from what it has to report. In my S’s case, he was a NMF and had stellar SAT’s and good grades. He just happened to be applying for a really tough major. There are many amazing kids who come in the spring.</p>
<p>I agree with FauxNom - the Spring admits appear to have “stats” equal to those of the Fall admits. If you have any doubt, take a look at the postings from last year <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/642272-stats-only-usc-decisons-2009-a-10.html?highlight=stats+decisions+2009[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/642272-stats-only-usc-decisons-2009-a-10.html?highlight=stats+decisions+2009</a> Starting on page 10 there are several Spring admits posting, and they are clearly very well qualified.</p>
<p>^^ditto, and ditto: my daughter’s stats in 2008 for Annenberg were actually higher than many who were admitted for fall and she was offered Spring…and her EC’s relating to her major were > or = to the others as well…she did not attend (attending the “other coast’s” top comm school</p>