<p>It seems like a lot of people haven’t been admitted to Marshall yet… Does applying to Marshall slow your application down? Also, would Marshall pay more attention to your Math SAT and Math SATII’s than most other things (grade/scorewise)?</p>
<p>I applied to Marshall…hmmm…I thought there were a good amount of Marshall acceptances posted here though. Not to say CC is representative of the USC applicant pool as a whole, but still.</p>
<p>^^ I actually think there are comparitively fewer marshall acceptances sent out.
Im guessing Marshall would pay more attention to your leadership abilities. I hope they dont pay much attention to Math cause im not really good at it…</p>
<p>Love the theory it seems very realistic…</p>
<p>^ agreed.
if USC asked for your mid-term grades, is that a good or bad sign?</p>
<p>I’m thinking it’s a good sign for the following reasons: If by late January you hadn’t heard from USC about scholarships, you’re obviously not one of the very best applicants. Therefore, you’re in a pool of what is now considered to contain Admit-, Deny+, and Deny-. If you’re a Deny-, chances are they don’t even want you’re grades so you wouldn’t receive a request. Them asking for grades probably means you’re either Admit- or Deny+, which is obviously good since it has already been established that you’re not Admit+.</p>
<p>^ but some people who’ve received acceptances in the past few days did not get requests for mid year grades, nor did they receive the big scholarships in January.</p>
<p>“thesmiths, aj: Are you both arts & science or another school?”</p>
<p>I applied to arts and sciences.</p>
<p>thesmiths: I’m just wondering if it is only applicants to the other schools who have been asked for midterm grades…aj hasn’t responded, but alot of the others who are on the "we have received you grades’ are from the other schools (Cinema, Annenberg, etc.)…</p>
<p>that could explain the discrepency of some with higher stats having grades requested; different admission process altogether…</p>
<p>kevster: when you say “if USC asked for your midterm grades” do you mean in the fin-aid letter or in a letter by itself? if it was in the fin-aid letter, then everyone who didnt qualify for trustee or presidential scholarship and had applied by 12/10 shouldve gotten one of those. if it was in a separate letter then i wouldnt know i didnt get that letter, i got the fin-aid letter</p>
<p>rodney: that does seem plausible. a lot of people here have applied to viterbi and marshall, right?</p>
<p>Rodney - I applied to marshall but i wasnt asked to submit mid-year grade…Im international and i dont think any other international students was asked to submit mid-year grade</p>
<p>BasilofBaker - I think your right. The only reason why any university would specifically ask you to submit mid-year grade was if they needed more info to evaluate your application. If they dont need it then that means that your either clear admit or clear denial (which i hope im not)</p>
<p>Yup, and annenberg…Over on the cinema thread, lots of “we have received your midterm grades” also…I think we are onto something…</p>
<p>Conclusion: 1) the two statuses are probably equal depending on the school you applied to</p>
<pre><code> 2) was anyone in arts & sciences asked for midterm grades???
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<p>Every school has different criteria and level of competition…the fact you were or weren’t asked for them may have to do with that fact</p>
<p>^^maybe maybe…
I dont recall ANY international being asked to submit mid-year grades so maybe im exempt from the above conclusions…I just cant wait for the next wave</p>
<p>Is it possible that they didn’t ask some of us for grades because we submitted them ourselves early enough?</p>
<p>Yup…If they received them on time they prbly got them and didnt bother changing the status</p>
<p>any updates from SoCal?</p>
<p>tr17s - i didn’t apply for scholarship. USC asked for my mid-term grades in my online application website (“we would like to see your mid-term grades”). then it’s weird why they asked for my mid-term grades because, in all seriousness, my GPA is pretty bad.</p>
<p>s33d - nothing.</p>
<p>s33d: nothing yesterday and i can say nothing today for a definite (you can guess why)</p>
<p>kev: i see</p>
<p>To respond to an earlier post, I doubt USC would throw out an application without putting it in the best light possible. If a person had bad grades all of high school, but got a 4.0 senior year, their application may look better, and USC would want to know that. Because of this, I highly doubt they would have rejected applications without looking at senior year grades.</p>
<p>Sigh.. sunday.</p>