Hey all ! Just wanted to start a thread to share any news on Top Scholars notifications. Curious if students are notified regardless or just in the case of them being invited to the weekend.
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I was invited to something called “Scholar Social”, the Friday before my admitted student weekend visit. Not sure if that means anything or if it’s just for all merit recipients, but it’s something!
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Thanks for starting this thread! If it’s the same as last year looks like notifications could be coming by the end of the week. I too am curious if students are notified either way.
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I believe all the admitted honors kids got invited to the Friday night social. I was following these threads from the last couple years and it seems that the top scholars invites go out anywhere between now and early Feb. it would be nice to know early just for the convenience of booking travel! Also still curious if those who don’t get offered the top scholars awards are notified.
Yeah! I didn’t apply to honors but I did get November acceptance and guaranteed merit so that’s def why
Hi, I got my Top Scholar notice today. I’m in-state, and I’m pretty sure I’m an early case. Good luck to any Top-Scholar hopefuls! 
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Congratulations! Do you mind sharing stats? Do you think in-state students are notified first?
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I called the school today and they said they weren’t sure when the invites were going out. But they also told me back in December that honor decisions were a hard date of Feb 15 and my daughter got her acceptance about 4 hours later.
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Congratulations! May I know when the top scholar weekend is?
UW: 4.0, 6 APs. I don’t feel too comfortable posting my exact SATs or SC GPA, but what I can tell you that the average SAT (if you opt in for test consideration) for Top Scholars is 1527 and the avg weighted SC GPA is 5.3. For both, I was lower by a small margin, so take that as you will. I would think that decisions for in-state come out first, but I’m not completely sure. I think other past UofSC threads cover it though, so if you want to learn more, I think it would be a good idea to hop over there.
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In-State Top Scholar Candidate Weekend: February 18-20
Out-of-State Top Scholar Candidate Weekend: February 25-27
This information is based on a confirmation email I received for submitting my SCHC application. I hope this helps.
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Do you know if they pay for flights there?
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According to the woman I spoke with today, yes. I was asking about timing of the invites for travel purposes and mentioned I didn’t want to have to book two flights, one for TS and one for an admitted student weekend. She told me the University covers travel for the TS weekend.
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I just received my TopScholar notification today. I’m OOS. The form said they’ll pay for flights if you live more than 250 miles away
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Do you mind sharing your stats?
Congratulations! Email or portal update? or both?
Did you receive just now? Was it in the portal?
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Literally as I was reading the last post I got an email about “common questions regarding financial aid and scholarships” from USC. Maybe that’s their way of saying no TS so here what’s next?
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I got an email update telling me to check the portal, and then there was a letter in the portal similar to how they did the acceptances.
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I got the email about 2 hours ago.
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