<p>yeah but... :( i was looking at last years posts and everyone who didn't get the letter got rejected :(.</p>
<p>well you don't know for sure yet... but keep your chin up, I know how you feel though I felt the same way when the first wave came out (i knew i wouldn't get a big scholarship, it just still made me depressed) i still get horrible nerves whenever i start to think about it too much or see my friends acceptance folder... pathetic i know, but it's hard not to feel nervous</p>
<p>lol i know i wouldn't get a big scholarship. people who get the big scholarships at my school choose not to go to sc because they get accepted by harvard or whatnot.</p>
<p>i hate this feeling of anxiety though :(. i swear it kills you! and i don't understand why sc doesn't do acceptances online...</p>
<p>it's so much... better :| you don't have to worry about lost mail.</p>
<p>Ya I know! Like Chapman had this amazing webadvisor that showed you the status of your app, when the file was completed, that the decision was pending, then it said admission approved, but i mean it was really organized... USC's gateway website doesn't help that much really...</p>
<p>what gateway site?</p>
<p>i know what you mean. cornell has this AMAZING site too. too bad sc has nothing. it's something they really need to create...</p>
<p><a href="https://sig.usc.edu/login.cfm?%5B/url%5D">https://sig.usc.edu/login.cfm?</a></p>
<p>try loggin in to check the status of your documents at least, if you have any problems, there's info in previous posts, but it's pretty easy to activiate your account and login(at least for me it was anyways, some ppl had more of a problem)
it's wayy late lol, long day... i had to work today, night.</p>
<p>Gotta love Troy.</p>
<p>yup. it's the best school in world.</p>
<p>not.</p>
<p>it kinda screws you over...</p>
<p>i wish they would post results on gateway too..</p>
<p>Troy messed me up emotionally.</p>
<p>About the 'scholarship/no scholarship' letters...</p>
<p>Have any international students received these yet? I got the confirmation email for my app on Dec 10th and the acknowledgment letter on the 18th, but I haven't heard from USC since and I'm getting depressed.</p>
<p>Edit: 'getting'? I AM depressed.</p>
<p>cynicalowl: I am an international student, and I received my acceptance about two weeks ago. They have said that some sort of scholarship letter is on the way (could be be a no-scholarship or a scholarship letter).</p>
<p>i don't understand :( why am i not getting anything??</p>
<p>even a midyear request would at least let me think they're actually looking at my stuff..</p>
<p>Maybe they are still reviewing it? Once they're done they start sending out confirmation etc.
It sucks! No mail today! :(</p>
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<p>Is this true (about the harder to get in thing)? For OOS, or in state as well?</p>
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<p>I got the acceptance folder, but no scholarship letter in the mail. Instead, I got an email for whatever reason (no one else on here seems to have gotten an email for scholarship notification... only paper mail). Have you tried calling them? I don't know when the scholarship notification will arrive here... all I know is that the confirmation mail (postmarked Dec. 18th) arrived here about mid-January (so I'm really happy they sent me an email!).</p>
<p>well for sure la and berkeley are harder to get into compared to sc. la has what, 50,000 applicants this year? berkeley has a good load too and their business school's pretty crazy. notre dame, nyu, emory, and cornell all have really good undergrad business schools so they're gonna be hard to get into as well.</p>
<p>i did call but it said it was still in review :(</p>
<p>^not for sure. I know several people who did not get in to USC but got in to UCLA.</p>
<p>ah same here and vice versa. overall though, i'd figure la is harder to get into looking at the pattern at school. it sort of varies from year to year. one year, they accept a lot, next year, they don't. i think in 2005, they accepted around 50 kids from my school.. sc is stable every year though. always around the same number kids get accepted.</p>
<p>the thing with la though, it's a lot more random... all the uc's are kind of like that. i know people who got presidential scholarships (not nmf) to sc and got rejected by la.</p>
<p>Well UCs are more dependent on the formula - high SATs, high UC GPA, etc. whereas I believe SC has more of a holistic approach to admissions (considering context, essays, and ECs). So both schools admit applicants with different strengths. To be honest, as an OOS, I bet I won't get into LA or Berkeley (don't know about Irvine) because my SATs are nothing special, but I got presidential for SC.</p>
<p>as an oos student, you're already at a disadvantage for uc's. honestly, i like usc's approach towards applications much better than the uc's. i'd say uc's follow a formula too... but a formula with holes :|.</p>
<p>last year, a salutatorian for our school (which is pretty much a frickin amazing feat) got into sc with a pretty big scholarship, got into every single school she applied to, but got rejected from berkeley.</p>
<p>a girl got into mit but rejected from irvine.</p>
<p>i'd still say uc's are a bit random...</p>