<p>Any spring admits hoping for a bump at Annenberg? Praying we all get bumped</p>
<p>@Trojan2017 - Me! If it’s meant to be it’ll happen (:</p>
<p>Does anyone know how the parking is at Gateway? I’m hoping to live there during the Fall and go to SMC</p>
<p>There’s tons of parking at Gateway, it’s not an issue. Covered garage parking.</p>
<p>Your post was very helpful. I have a daughter who is a Spring Admit but what is “Gateway”? Is that a dorm at USC? Can Spring Admits live on the campus at USC or is there an apartment building near Santa Monica where they live?</p>
<p>“Gateway” (actually called University Gateway) is a privately owned “dorm” technically off campus but is right on the corner of Figueroa and Jefferson. Spring admits are not given on campus housing in the fall so this is the next closest thing if the student wants to live in the area. FYI my daughter is a current Freshman (previous Spring Admit who was bumped to fall) and is in the Trojan Marching Band. She said there was a Spring Admit student who joined the band in the fall because he was in the area. Just another way to get involved if you don’t get bumped up.</p>
<p>ProudUSCparent - spring admits can live in the dorms starting in spring semester. USC has never not been able to supply housing for spring admits. I believe it is July 1 when spring admits can register for campus housing.</p>
<p>There is a facebook page for freshmen admitted students. New admits can “meet” others on this social network and use that as a tool to find roommates and become acquainted. Use caution about personal information on social media.</p>
<p>Gateway is privately owned apartments that are rented by the bed. It is not university housing.</p>
<p>Spring admits are, in general, weaker in test scores and/or high school GPA. USC does not want their stats included in their retention and reported stats to places like US News. Chances of being “bumped” to a fall admit depend on how many admitted fall freshmen change their mind after depositing and what their test scores and GPA were like. If they were in the lower percentiles, and you’re in the upper of the spring admits, your chances are better. </p>
<p>Please, take four classes that transfer into USC as articulated courses during your fall. This will maintain your 4-year plan and keep you sharp. Do not take the semester off from school.</p>
<p>You have to be an enrolled student to rush. If you’re not enrolled in fall, you cannot participate in fall rush. Wait for spring rush.</p>
<p>I was admitted last year as a spring admit, and I turned it down because I wanted to start in the fall. I committed to a different school, and 4 days after the May 1 deadline, USC called me and offered me admission in the fall. Since I was locked into my other school, I said no, and I regret it. I am currently waiting for a reply on my transfer application. My advice is, if you want to go to USC, do not let being a spring admit stop you.</p>
<p>To the person who messaged me, sorry I cannot message you back because I do not have enough posts. To answer your question, I applied to be an architecture major. I hope you hear back soon about getting in for the Fall!!!</p>
<p>I’m so disappointed and angry at USC for toying with you kids who should be fall admits. You are being sacrificed only to maintain a sliver of percentage in a lower admit rate to game the rankings. </p>
<p>As a four year USC alumnus, I am outraged and encourage all spring admits to go elsewhere unless USC is a better school and academic fit. How dare President Nikias and his admissions cronies treat you poor kids like second class citizens! He does not give a rats a-- about you, only how you might adversely affect our admissions rate.</p>
<p>If you do end up at USC, please remember this and help prevent other kids from being denied a full freshman year experience at college!</p>
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<p>Hey SeattleTW - here is someone that absolutely agrees with your perception on delayed acceptance:
[A</a> Lousy Admission Offer From Cornell | The College Solution](<a href=“http://www.thecollegesolution.com/a-lousy-admission-offer-from-cornell/]A”>A Lousy Admission Offer From Cornell)</p>
<p>Seattle, I completely disagree with your assessment. I think the spring admit policy has more to do with the housing situation. Since USC guarantees housing for all freshman and sophomores, the admit rate for Fall cannot be as large. They count on kids studying abroad or not returning in the Spring to give housing to the Spring Admits. Transfers aren’t guaranteed housing either, so the number of transfers can be larger. I wouldn’t have considered USC for m DS if they didn’t guarantee housing the first year.</p>
<p>So is being bumped to fall depend on how many kids enroll?</p>
<p>Yes Trojan2017. After May 1st, they will look at how many accepted in each school/major and offer spaces if there is room.</p>
<p>We were not initially thrilled with the Spring Admisson my D received but fortunately she was bumped to fall. With her AP credits (and no summer school) she is planning to graduate in 3 1/2 years with a minor. She is also planning to travel abroad her Spring Semester of Junior year. I actually graduated college in 3 1/2 years. Thus it is obvious to me that colleges have less students enrolled during the spring semester and thus to maximize use of campus space and faculty, spring admissions make sense.</p>
<p>I guess they could just take more spring transfers and use the wait list for fall. My D received a “wait list” from another school. Considering they gave out several thousand wait list invites and took <50 from the list, it seemed patronizing. It sent the message, you look like a quality applicant but we really don’t need you. The Spring Semester admit says, we really want you but someone else got lucky or had something more compelling about their application. Considering how all schools like to brag about their diversity as much as they do test scores, that something else very well may be minority status, first to go college, etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for the Cornell thread. I just read a poor kid’s post that there are about three hundred spring admits. That’s about two percentage points in additional admits, based upon last year’s adjusted admit rate of 20%, up from the initial 18% reported admit rate. USC can well afford to make room for all of them, even if that means off campus housing. (e.g., I chose to live off campus my freshman year at USC.) </p>
<p>Only those who were denied the wonderful experience of entering USC in the fall as a freshman are capable of such callous, insensitive and evil actions toward spring admits. There is a special ring for those malevolent USC administrators in Perdition!</p>
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<p>If my kid were a spring admit I’d call the admissions office and DEMAND a fall place or threaten to send him elsewhere, especially if money was not an issue. </p>
<p>You spring kids deserve to attend USC in the fall, meet new friends, study together, hang out with your peers, go to football games and do all the fun things expected of you as freshmen. Life long memories are at stake here!</p>
<p>Just the idea of missing football season makes me want to get on a plane, gather a crowd at Bovard and hold a sit-in in front of President Nikias’s office!</p>
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<p>Good luck with that.</p>
<p>Not sure about the demand thing working, but if I had another alternative I would take it. I cannot see many schools worth getting out of the college rhythm and missing the first fall. Groups and cliques form and it is easy to get left out at a big school. I think it is easier to be lonely at a big school than small school…Of four kids I know that transferred this year, all were unhappy at college because of social issues (not fitting) rather than the academics. Of course, some would have no problem, but still missing your first fall and all its glory seems sad.</p>