<p>So I got into to USC for Fall 07 as a Business Administration major and I have a few concerns that I thought you guys may be able to help me out with.</p>
<li><p>I turned in my housing application on July 2nd. I’ve read several times that housing is very limited, so does anybody know how good of a chance I’ll have at housing? </p></li>
<li><p>If I dont get housing what are some other good options? Does the school help set students up with other students for apartments or should I be using Craigs List and what not? Anybody in my situation care to share what their plan is?</p></li>
<li><p>I have orientation on July 17th, but then I leave to go on tour on the 22nd and dont get back until August 20th. I realize that registering for classes will fall somewhere within that time frame. I wanted to talk to a counselor and figure out my scheduling, but I dont think I have any time to do that. Anybody have any suggestions? I dont want to sign up for the wrong classes and screw up my chances at finishing in two years.</p></li>
<li><p>Does anybody know anything about applying for minors? I really really want to do a music engineering minor, but I cant really find any info as to whether I’ve missed the application period or the process of doing a minor.</p></li>
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<p>I know that some of this info will be covered during orientation, but I wanted to get a heads up.</p>
<p>My main concern is housing, I want USC apartment housing so I could meet some people and what not. I dont want off-campus housing to keep me from having a true college experience. Community College didnt give me the experience so I want to do it big for the next two years.</p>
<p>I can't answer number one, except to tell you again that housing is rather limited. ^^;;
2. I would look up conquest housing around USC. that's what my friend did anyway. Craigs list should help too!
3. There's pretty much nothing you can do about it. Or least I couldn't do anything about it. I called my counselor and everything and she wouldn't let me register. However, that may have been because I was out of the country at the time and she was going to let me if I was in US somewhere... or so i think. She almost made me goto Hong Kong for orientation... which is kinda frightening considering I never been to china before. Anyways, figure out who your advisor is and talk to them, call them up.
4. Once again you should talk to your advisor about that, they should direct you to the right people. OR do what I did, talk to the music department directly. I started meeting up with the animation student advisor trying to sign up for the minor.</p>
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<li>To tell you the truth, majority of the upperclassmen are off campus. there are only 4 places that upper classmen can live in on campus, and that's parkside (partly freshman), birnkrant (90 percent are freshmen), arts and humanity building (or whatever its called, its new), and Webb (100 percent upperclass men) your chance of getting webb is very low, because its the most sought after building on campus. So unless you wanna live with huge number of freshmen, off campus shouldn't be too bad.</li>
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<p>Although i think you are talking about nonschool housing rather than off campus buildings (majority of usc housings are off campus) I dunno, it shouldn't be too hard to meet students around the area, i think.</p>
<p>as uyulove mentioned, Conquest housing is your best bet. although they're pretty much filled up already.. and they're not cheap either... however, like uyulove said upper classmen don't stay in usc housing... a lot of upper classmen stay in conquest housing, or apartments nearby like check out apartments near shrine pl, behind the row, apt on ellendale is a popular choice... most of these housings are pretty much leased already.. if you go to conquesthousing.com, there's a roommate link where you can find roommates - if they already have apt & looking for roommates then that would be no hassle for you. i saw from another post that uscliving.com is another option. overall, you'll get true college experience by going to usc and being involved in orgs or clubs - you don't have to live in usc housing to get the experience... from my experience, it's what you make out of it rather than what's given to you so be involved and take advantage of great opportunities - you'll find out more about orgs and clubs @ orientation and on campus your first week of school... many various orgs will have their booths set up during lunch hours your first week.
as for signing up for right classes... you should find out more @ orientation... at least that's how i remember how i did it few years ago.. they gave me a list of classes i needed to take & especially for business students they have a general guideline of what you should be taking each semester although this may differ for transfer students.. and i think you mentioned you'd like to finish in 2 years... well you probably wouldn't be able to do so if you pick up a minor but you should definitely go for it.. talk to an advisor in the music dept & they should be able to help you w/ it.</p>
<p>my friend called a housing advisor in late june about usc housing and they completely made her feel dumb because, obviously, she was way behind schedule for any chances of getting a spot. So, now she's forking out 1500 for a suite... by herself.</p>
<p>sorry, i hope it didn't diminish any hopes but i'm trying to be realistic. =)</p>
<p>if you're afraid of feeling lonely, i'll be new as a transfer student too, and i'm very friendly, we can always meet for some grub. Just a thought.</p>
<p>MafdetX: Don't worry about registration. You will register for all your Fall classes at orientation with personal attention from counselors and advisors.</p>