<p>Date applied: 12/1 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/15 Accepted at which school/major at USC: viterbi</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: X M: X, CR: X, WR: X,
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: math 790 chemistry 780
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0
[<em>] Rank: ?
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Lots of AP
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: not so hot
[</em>] Teacher Recs: good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] EC highlights: X[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: sports, math club, more
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: none</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Really pumped about this one. I thought my essays would have gotten me rejected.</p>
<p>Date applied: Late October Date decision postmarked/received: March 12 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Viterbi/Chemical (environmental) Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2050 M: 720, CR: 610, WR: 720,
[</em>] ACT: NA
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: MathII 740; Chem 780
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.78/4.44
[<em>] Rank: Top 10% (School does not rank)
[</em>]AP/IB classes: APUSH 4; Chem 5; World Hist 5; Senior Year: Statistics, Psych; Calc AB; Physics; and Gov
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Very Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[</em>] EC highlights: Captain Varsity Volleyball; President Culinary Club; On Board of Environmental Club; Lots of related Volunteer Work in the environmental arena. [/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: PA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: None</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: still waiting to hear from four other colleges before I decide where I will go</p>
<p>Date applied: November 16 Date decision postmarked/received: March 12, 2010 / March 15, 2010 Accepted at which school/major at USC: CLAS / Biochemistry</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2180 M: 760, CR: 730, WR: 690,
[</em>] ACT: X
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 740 Math II, 720 Bio M
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.0
[<em>] Rank: top 20%
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 0 at the time of application. 3 by end of senior year.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Great
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Great? (never did read it though)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great? (never did read it though)
[</em>] EC highlights: Varsity air riflery, captain robotics team, eagle scout,[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: HI
[</em>] School Type: Small private Catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: did an [off campus] interview with my region’s admissions officer</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Am strongly considering. Will consider even more if I get into the pre-pharmacy TAP program.</p>
<p>Date applied: idk…like day before Date decision postmarked/received: postmarked 3/12, received 3/14 Accepted at which school/major at USC: International Relations/Global Business</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2120 M: 720, CR: 720, WR: 680,
[</em>] ACT:33
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 720 chem, 700 us history, 690 lit
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.98/5.68
[<em>] Rank: 3/513
[</em>]AP/IB classes: AP Spanish Lang. (4), AP Chem (5), AP US History (4), AP English Lang. (4), currently taking AP Bio, Government, Macroeconomics, English Lit, Calculus BC
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: not very good…first one i wrote for colleges
[</em>] Teacher Recs: pretty good i guess
[<em>] Counselor Rec: idk she doesn’t know me very well
[</em>] EC highlights: dance team captain, ballet studio group, spanish club, spanish nhs, regular nhs, loads of volunteer work, tutoring, chemistry club, [/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: TX
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: visited over the summer? </p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: i’m so excited, but it’s really going to boil down to financial aid info!</p>
<p>Date applied: December 1 Date decision postmarked/received: March 13 Accepted at which school/major at USC: College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences/Biochemistry (Pre-Med) ----- called USC today to see if I could get into Viterbi for Biomedical Engineering and the guy said sure and to do it at Orientation if I decide to attend</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2320 M: 770, CR: 760, WR: 790,
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: IIC - 770, Chemistry (as sophomore) - 650
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.67 UW/4.33 W
[<em>] Rank: ~37/604
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Chemistry (10th, 4), Physics B (11th, 3), Music Theory (11th, 1), US History (11th, 4), Calc BC (12th), Environmental Science (12th), English Literature (12th), Biology (12th), Government (12th), Economics (12th)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Worst thing I’ve written in my life… I wrote about climbing Vernal Falls while up in Yosemite doing lab work for APES and was embarassed that these two toddlers were in better shape than I was, thus I “persevered” and made it to the top.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Junior year English teacher probably wrote a really good if not amazing one, my Pre-Calc Honors and now AP Calc teacher wrote me a not-so-good, generic one…
[<em>] Counselor Rec: No clue… probably generic since there’s only one for the entire school (600+ kids in each grade, so ~2400 or so students in entire school)
[</em>] EC highlights: MUN for 4 years (tons of awards), over 600 hours of community service, president of Peer Assistance Leadership (peer mediation for school’s supervision office, basically), other community service clubs like Key Club and National Honor Society[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: SoCal
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Vietnamese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: First-generation student?</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Awaiting my financial aid package (if any)</p>
<p>Date applied: 11/25 Date decision postmarked/received: Mar 12/ Mar 16 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Biomedical Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2210 M: 800, CR: 660, WR: 750,
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math 2: 790, Biology E: 640, Lit: 660
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.2
[<em>] Rank: top 3%
[</em>]AP/IB classes: English Lit and Comp, English Lang and comp, World history, physics B, calculus AB
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: okay
[</em>] Teacher Recs: didn’t read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[</em>] EC highlights: Math League, Interact Club, NHS, Tennis, Church stuff [/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: HI
[</em>] School Type: Private, religious
[<em>] Ethnicity: Filipino/Okinawan/Spanish/Chinese
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: don’t know</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: This was my top choice school! I’m super happy! I hope they give me enough financial aid or else my parents won’t let me go.</p>
<p>Date applied: mid november-ish Date decision postmarked/received: 3/16/10 Accepted at which school/major at USC: CLAS psychology (pre-med)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 33
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math II (770) Lit (670)
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: ~3.55/4.05
[</em>] Rank: 123/934
[li]AP/IB classes: world hist(3), comp sci(3), us hist(3), eng lang(5), bio(?), bc calc(?), macroecon(?), govt(?), eng lit (?)[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: detailed family troubles…i thought they were well written and most likely played a large factor in acceptance
[</em>] Teacher Recs: pretty good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ok
[</em>] EC highlights: co-founded red cross club, founded vehicle enthusiasts club, lots of stuff through BBYO (international jewish group), 2 years JV swimming, 200+ hrs comm serv (through local hospital)[/ul]</p>
<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: texas
[</em>] School Type: large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: i guess if you could consider family issues a “hook”</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: very excited! but may not be financially possible :[. we will see!</p>
<p>Date applied: Mid-November Date decision postmarked/received: 3/12/10 / 3/16/10 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Annenberg, Communication Major</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2110 M: 770, CR: 670, WR: 670,
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 690 US History, 650 Spanish
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.8 UW / 4.0 W
[<em>] Rank: N/A
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 5 AP
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Solid, I wrote about a year that I spent abroad in England
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent, wrote about my accomplishments in academics, swimming, and leadership
[<em>] Counselor Rec: N/A
[</em>] EC highlights: ASB President, Water Polo and Swim Captain, swim coach, very involved with school and community[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Bay Area
[</em>] School Type: Public high school in the best district in the state
[<em>] Ethnicity: White/Filipino
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Legacy, my mom graduated from Annenberg in 1987. </p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: USC has been my top choice my whole life. If I can get some decent financial aid, I’ll be attending for sure! Fight On!!</p>
<p>Date applied: January 11 2010 last minute Date decision postmarked/received: March 12 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Marshall School of Business</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2100 single M: 730, CR: 670, WR: 700,
[</em>] ACT: 28
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Bio 680 Literature 680 Math 2 650
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.98 weighted over 3 sems, senior GPA U3.85/W4.35
[<em>] Rank: top quarter
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 3 IBHL 3 IBSL Band
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: I recycled commonapp essay, pretty good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 1 Super 1 good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: she used another teachers rec so im guessing really good
[</em>] EC highlights: A lot of badminton, A lot of work experience and specialized out of school courses for business/econ, band, service builds, other clubs and activities [/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Philippines
[</em>] School Type: International School/ Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Good essays and lifestyle/activities very geared towards the business and economic world</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Non-financial aid applicant, USC is an awesome school!!!</p>
<p>Date applied: like 2 hours b4 deadline haha Date decision postmarked/received: March 17, 2010 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Marshall School of Business / Business Administration</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2100 M:800, CR: 620, WR: 680,
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math II 760
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.92 our school only has weighted
[<em>] Rank: Top 5%
[</em>]AP/IB classes: IB HL English A1, Physics, Math, Economics, IB SL Chinese, History
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Brilliant
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I guess they were ok
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good. I’m really close with my counselor
[</em>] EC highlights: School President, good leadership, lots of charity events
[<em>] State or Country: Philippines
[</em>] School Type: International
[<em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Killer ECs</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: i’m really happy… 2 of my friends also got into Marshall… waiting for results from BC Carroll, NYU Stern, CMU Tepper, Duke, and Dartmouth. But USC is definitely a school I will consider.</p>
<p>Date applied: Before the scholarship deadline, I forget exactly when
Date decision postmarked/received: Not sure/1/29
Accepted at which school/major at USC: College/Astronomy</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT Total: 2270 taken once M: 740, CR:740, WR: 790,
ACT: 35 taken once
SAT Subject Tests: Biology M 770 World History 760 Math 1 750
GPA-UW/W: 3.95 when I applied, 4.02 now (weighted I guess, A’s in honors and AP are worth 4.5, in regular classes worth 4)
Rank: not given at my school, probably top 15/~320
AP/IB classes: Spanish language, APUSH, Chemistry, no tests taken yet
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: All right, wrote about a church retreat I went on sophomore year
Teacher Recs: chem teacher I’ve had for two years and journalism teacher I’ve had for 3 who both really like me, probably really good
Counselor Rec: I barely know him, probably pretty generic
EC highlights: church youth group, 3 years of club rugby, National Honor Society, 4 years of CTY (summer learning program) including 1 year of it in Ireland, a year on the school newspaper
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Connecticut
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors, hook?: I’m an RHP student, so I’m a junior, and apparently there aren’t many astronomy majors. Maybe also that I’m from the east coast? Also I talked about how I taught myself latin and how to play guitar, that might have helped</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Nominated for a trustee scholarship, we’ll see about that. Definitely going to USC whether I get it or not</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/01 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/12 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Arts and Science, Economics</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2100 M: 690, CR: 740, WR: 670,
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math II - 740, US - 800, Chemistry
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.1
[<em>] Rank: 3/358
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Chem - 4, Euro - 5, Lit, Calc AB, Physics C, US.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: X
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 8/10
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ?
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Ohio. USC also has a history of recruiting Jewish students.</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Still waiting to hear back on scholarships. Definite possibility if I don’t get into some of my other preferences. (Pomona, Stanford…)</p>
<p>Date applied: 1/11/10 Date decision postmarked/received: march 11 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Marshall, business administration</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 700 M: 640, CR: X, WR: 770,
[</em>] ACT: NA
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math II 740 Chinese w/ listening 690 English 650
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.8ish/4.14
[<em>] Rank: NA
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 7 AP classes, 5 honors
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][li] [/li]Essays: amazing
Teacher Recs: realy good
Counselor Rec: so-so
EC highlights: Varsity Tennis, Varsity Equestrian team, editor for school newspaper and literary arts magz, math peer tutor, won 2nd place for county science fair, alumnae coordinator, National Honor society, 3rd place National Spanish exam</p>
<p>State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: private prepatory high school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]Other Factors, hook?: legacy student(mom was a graduate of marshall), killed the essay and short questions, my mom knows the Dean of Marshall Business school so she brought me to see him in december(it was basically an exclusive interview…)</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: no scholarship/aid coz i’m an international student. GOOD LUCK to everyone else:)</p>
<p>Date applied: November-ish? Date decision postmarked/received: 18th March (they sent it via DHL on 15/3) Accepted at which school/major at USC: Leventhal School of Accounting</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 770 M: X, CR: 740, WR: 730,
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math II 800, Literature 770
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: N/A
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>]AP/IB classes: NIL
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][</em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty good when I sent them in. I just read it again and I cringed.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Okay, I guess. I’m like pretty much one of the worst in class in terms of grades.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: See above.
[<em>] EC highlights: Some leadership stuff…and um, merit-based scholarships? Intern jobs and started my own volunteer project.[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country: International Student
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]Other Factors, hook?: My sister was a Trojan for a year before she transferred…?</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Waiting for other schools’ decisions but most probably not attending.</p>
<p>Date applied: November 30 Date decision postmarked/received: March 13 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Annenberg - Broadcast Journalism</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2240 M: 730, CR: 710, WR: 800
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: N/A
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.67/3.84
[<em>] Rank: School Doesn’t Rank
[</em>]AP/IB classes: U.S. History, English 11, Government, Stats
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Probably good, about exploring an Olympic bid for the city of Pittsburgh.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Likely glowing. From teacher who I’ve had for gifted support and got an A from in AP Gov
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Likely good.
[</em>] EC highlights: PA Announcing, Writer for local monthly Sports magazine, Sports Editor for school newspaper, Volunteering with Elementary School, School Theater [/ul]Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Pittsburgh, PA
[</em>] School Type: Large Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Highly regarded high school, National Merit Finalist, All A’s in first semester of Senior Year</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: $19k scholarship for National Merit, likely attending</p>
<p>Date applied: November 20 something Date decision postmarked/received: Postmarked: 3/18 Received: 3/19 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Viterbi - Computer Science and Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2040 M: 750, CR: 720, WR: 570,
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math2: 750 Physics: 740
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.9/4.1
[<em>] Rank: 16/580
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Calc AB, Calc BC, Physics B, English 11, English 12
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] Essays: Ok (I think I should have picked a different thing to write about)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Although positive, somewhat superficial.
[</em>] EC highlights: Not much to be honest… Key Club events and National Honor Society. And some Church service.
[/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Chino, CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White/Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: I’d like to think that personal interest and self-teaching myself computer programming helped out.</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Definitely going to USC. Status was at "App being reviewed -> Forwarded (for a day) -> App being reviewed (then the next day I got my acceptance)</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/01 Date decision postmarked/received: Recieved 3?13 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Marshall: Leventhal School of Accounting</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2040 M: 670, CR: 700, WR: 670,
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Chinese w/ Listening 780
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: UW 3.91
[<em>] Rank: Top 5%
[</em>]AP/IB classes: AP English 11, AP Calc A/B, AP Calc B/C, AP USH, AP English 12, AP Bio, AP Macroeconomics</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Ok
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Alright
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Spectacular
[</em>] EC highlights: Piano (International Piano competitions, etc.), Marathon Club, Volunteer work</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: Chino Hills, CA
[</em>] School Type: Public (LACHSA)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?:
May turn down or defer decision</p>