<p>KingJames I've read some of ur other posts. As an incoming sophomore they rely heavily on ur HS record and if i remember u had a 3.1 or so. For sophomore admits there is almost no chance you get in if you wouldn't have been accepted out of HS and you wouldn't have with that GPA, I would reccommend going to UConn for 2 full years then they will barely blink at ur HS record because you will have 2 full years at a 4-year university for them to base their decision on. Also you may end up liking UConn.</p>
<p>I posted my classes that I have coming in for the fall above. What GE levels do you think I might have a chance of having completed with my prior work? I am a Biological Science major. The classes again are:</p>
<p>-Latin American Studies (LAS110)
-Ethics (PHI151)
-Psychology 101
-Art History 2 Survey
-Intro to Poli Sc
-English 101
-English Literature
-Microbiology w/ lab
-Human Anatomy and Physio I w/ lab
-Human Anatomy and Physio II w. lab</p>
<p>I assume the last three will sort of go towards my major but I have a hard time placing the others. I also know that I have 2 GE's that are required to complete at USC and I have to do the math and foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>Yeah, at the end of junior year my GPA was 3.1...so now it's probably a 3.3-3.4 when you factor in senior year. Still very low compared to USC's average, which worries me. But, like I said before...don't you think they'll see that my GPA for junior and senior year is a 3.7+? Will they really care that much about my freshman and sophomore years of HS if I:</p>
<p>A) improved significantly after sophomore year
B) have alot of USC requirements completed with a 3.6-3.7 UConn GPA (assuming they ask for my spring grades)</p>
<p>For all I know I won't get a 3.6-3.7 GPA, but I'm confident given the teachers and courses I'll be having. And so long as Calc for business doesn't push me down too much....perhaps I'll come out with a 3.8-3.9 GPA...know what I mean?</p>
<p>I have a friend who will be a junior next year at USC. He got in as a sophomore, and there's nooooo way this kid would have been accepted out of HS. I think he probably had an 1100 and a 3.0. He just excelled in his first year, and now he's @ USC.</p>
<p>The truth is, I KNOW I'll love UConn...but I'm worried I'll have a harder time finding a job after college with a BA in Econ compared to a Marshall degree out of USC. Plus, I'm in love with So Cal.</p>
<p>Think it's worth the $50 application fee? I'll probably apply as Marshall as my 1st choice, and econ or accounting as my 2nd choice.</p>
<p>Also, perhaps coming from 3,000 miles away (CT/UConn) will help? I have another friend who got into USC out of high school with a 1080 SAT and a 3.4 GPA 3 years ago. Really really weird, but perhaps the whole coming from CT helped or something.</p>
<p>oh, and i'm also 1st generation if that means anything whatsoever</p>
<p>Well USC's standards have gone up a lot in recent years.
What I said in my last post was what i read on the USC transfer site. They said if you have less than 30 units they will weigh heavily on ur high school record and only apply as a sophomore transfer if you would have been accepted out of high school. Even though yo got straight As ur last 2 years, when they look at a HS record they look at everything, so I don't know how that will work. It gets harder to get in USC every year. They are getting more and more applicants and the percent admitted is dropping significantly, so I don't think those people you mentioned would get in with the current standards. They have a lot of applicants from all over the nation so I don't think that really factors in too much. If you're going to love UConn though, I wouldn't let the fact that it will be harder to find a job keep you from staying there. I'd say give it a go at UConn and if you really enjoy it stay there. Most people who transfer do it because they aren't happy. UConn is a great school and you may end up loving ur time there. I wouldn't go in with the attitude that you are leaving because it will make the time there miserable. If you don't like it give it a shot applying for USC and see what happens. If you don't get in, but still want to leave UConn, make sure ur taking courses that will get rid of all the pre-reqs ur allowed to take out of residence and apply after 2 years at UConn. Godd luck with everything.</p>
<p>Thanks TrojanWannabe. I guess I'll just apply and see what happens....it won't really hurt besides for coughing up that $50 application fee, haha.</p>
<p>OK Vampiro, here's what i found out today. maybe some of it will be helpful to you.
as a transfer-sophomore, they wait til they get spring grades. that means, in my case, i will have completed atleast 30 units and my high school grades will not factor in much at all. in fact, the advisor did not even mention them; he just talked about my college gpa requirement. decisions can come as late as end of July (which sucks).
i will have to postpone philosophy (which does not meet GE) because i do need to take a foreign language (which i did not realize after 3 years in high school). i'm hoping to test out of all but the final semester.
I got a "definite" on GE credit for Western Civ, Intro to Sociology, fresman english, Bio w/ lab, spanish. I need to send them the course description for social and cultural anthropology; the "social" part of the title was questionable.
They recommend taking lower division classes for the major if you can. But admissions can't tell if they will be credited towards the major until you are admitted. They suggested really carefully matching the course descriptions.
They also said not to worry too much about housing; they expect more to be
available next year :-)
Hope this helps a little bit.........good luck!</p>
<p>yep that helps NAgony.....so is it just that we have to be in USC residence to complete the GE's or are there some fixed units to be completed in residence...
Also on what scale are you calculating course work (how many units make one semester??)</p>
<p>hey one more thing...can i contact USC for course evaluation via email or phone??
Also i read that u have to take 2 courses in English writing to match USC's lower division writing requirement but how come you matched their requirement with just one?</p>
<p>^^probably since he's an incoming sophomore.</p>
<p>NAgony, did USC confirm with you that HS won't be focused on very much if you complete 30 or more credits by the end of freshman year?</p>
<p>that english thing is hard to understand, because most of the transfer reps work with students coming out of cc's (as opposed to 4 yr U's), where the units are different. all usc says is that you have to take a course equivilant to writing 130... i think... it's confusing...</p>
<p>english: i will take english 114 and 214 (spring semester) to = USC english.
figure your courses will transfer units same as your college gives (it's usually based on number of meetings per week). at the end of 1 year, i will have 31 units plus any summer school.</p>
<p>they did not say they don't look at high school. he just said decisions are made "based on fall and spring college grades". and i'm not sure about the comment that if you weren't admissable in freshman year you shouldn't apply as a sophomore. he never said anything like that at all. however, consider that this was a legacy meeting, so it might not have applied anyway.</p>
<p>course evaluation = they won't give definitive answers in advance. they just looked at my schedule for next year, used the transfer worksheet to show me how they fit (i'd already done that, of course), and said they would need to see course descriptions for anything that did not sound like an exact match.</p>
<p>it's pretty straight forward. you need 2 semesters freshman english, either physics/bio/chem with lab, language and maybe math for your major. then, either western civ, cultural anthropology, intro to sociology or some other courses that meet those same requirements.</p>
<p>Nagony, </p>
<p>why do you need 2 english courses, when the transfer book states that all you need is one course equivalent to their writing 130?</p>
<p>WOW U$C f'ing kicks A$S! I sent them an email asking which courses to take that would fill the gen-eds and everything (since there is no articulation agreement between UConn and USC) so they went through the UConn course catalog (I gave them the link) and they told me all the EXACT UConn classes to take!</p>
<p>And then, she also said: "lastly, your high school record will not be taken into consideration at all once you have completed over 30 units of college work. You
application will be based solely on your college level work."</p>
<p>notice how she said "at all"....AT ALL. Yes! Now I just have to bust my ass off freshman year.</p>
<p>so what did they say about the writing class?</p>
<p>LOL, well, that's what you get with USC for all those $$$ - personal attention by people who really are going to help you one-on-one.</p>
<p>My guess is that somehow they figure that the USC writing 140 is equivalent to that 2 semester sequence, so that's what they said you should take.</p>
<p>hey we have all the info about high school stuff but what about the SAT's...are they looked into too...or are for over 30 units the SAT's also forgotten....</p>
<p>Also if i retake the SAT in college will it be worth it or will taking the SAT once in college never look that good as it would have had i scored high when in high school</p>
<p>KingJames--> which email id did u contact??</p>
<p>I contacted:
<a href="mailto:busadm@marshall.usc.edu">busadm@marshall.usc.edu</a>
I'm guessing there is a different one for whatver your major is, but when I called Marshall to ask them the Q, one of the touch-tone options said that if you're a transfer student unsure about which credits will satisfy the marshall prerequisites...contact this email, etc. So I did, and they got back to me rather quickly.</p>
<p>vampiro, I'm not sure about the SAT...but wouldn't it make sense if they did matter. Afterall, in the email she did say "Your application will be based solely on your college level work." She used the word "solely" so i dunno...seems like they don't really look at the SAT very much. Afterall, they do have TEN college courses to look at by the end of spring semester of frosh year.</p>
<p>Also, you know how WRIT-130 is MANDATORY for transferring into USC? What if you just take the normal english class at your college that most or all freshman take, and figure out later (once your accepted) whether or not it will fulfull WRIT-130. OR, does the specific english class you took factor into whether you're rejected or accepted??</p>
<p>no idea about the writing thing man....
Is the phone number for inquiries same??</p>