<p>Who anyone happen to know if its difficult to get into? thank you!</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>
<p>Anyone???</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>
<p>I am a music student parent, so I am not 100% on this, but I do believe that for business students, you basically just apply like any other student, and once you are accepted you will have a summer orientation meeting with an advisor who will help you to choose classes appropriate for your intended major. </p>
<p>For business students I don’t think it is any easier or harder to be accepted than most any other major.</p>
<p>At the end of your sophomore year I think you will have to “apply” to the “upper division” of the Moore School of Business, at that point what you did in high school has little bearing - they are just looking to make sure that you have taken the minimum basic business core and have acceptable grades. At least that is the way it was back when I went to college (I was a business major at USC-Upstate).</p>
<p>I do believe that it is a little harder to get into the International Business degree program than the other business majors though. USC also has a lot of business related majors where many of the business classes are not neccesarally classified as being in the School of Business, so if you have a specific interest, or develop a specific interest in a more specific area of business, such as “Sports and Entertainment Management”, or “Hospitality Management”, you can major in one of those areas, instead of the more typical management/accounting/finance/economics/marketing fields. There’s a heck of a lot of choices and decisions to make - much more so than at a smaller schools.</p>
<p>Also, the branch campuses are somewhat easier to get into, and most or all of their courses will transfer, so if your academics are a little weak, you can get your “foot in the door” and then transfer. “Upstate” is a 4 year university and has a fairly decent number of business major options and even has it’s own “school of business”.</p>
<p>If you are thinking about business, USC is a good school with a good reputation. </p>
<p>If you are thinking about International Business and are a very serious student willing to study hard and skip the weekday parties, then USC is a great school with a great rep (usually ranked #1 in the country for International Business by most rating systems).</p>
<p>Hope this helps, I think everything I mentioned is accurate, but please double check to make sure (remember my “Gamecock” son isn’t a business major and it’s been a loooong time since I was a business student).</p>
<p>thank you for your help ! You really cleared things up for me. Im only a junior so i have a lot of time to think about what i want to major in, but most likely it will be along the line of business. Next year I am taking a into to business class, and accounting class. Hopefully I will get an idea of what I want to major in if i get accepted to USC.</p>
<p>Like imagep said, you just apply like any other student. For certain programs like IB and Nursing, you have to reapply during your sophomore year.</p>
<p>For example, there are 400 nursing students, and at the end of sophomore year, they’re going to take the top 200 with the highest GPA’s.</p>
<p>I don’t think that the Business School is run that way though. I think that only applies to IB. But here’s a timeline: [Prematriculation</a> | The Moore School of Business | University of South Carolina](<a href=“404 page not found | University of South Carolina”>404 page not found | University of South Carolina)</p>
<p>I think the way USC does Admissions, is they don’t really look at your intended major. I know a lot of students who changed their major before they enrolled, but after they were accepted. I was one of them. You just have to call the Admissions Office and I never heard about there being any rules saying which major you could switch into. I just know that you have to re-register for Orientation if you switch your major.</p>
<p>Thanks ! Would you happen to know if usc is “hard” to get into?</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>
<p>For those that get rejected, USC is VERY hard to get into. For those that get acccepted it is quite easy. </p>
<p>USC ended up having a few more students to enroll than they were shooting for this year, so I suspect it is going to be a little harder to get in next year, especially since the average SAT score went up 15 or 20 points this year.</p>
<p>To be “safe”, in state applicants probably need 1100 SAT (just the first two parts) and a3.2 unweighted GPA (maybe 3.7 or higher weighted). Out of state students may need a little higher stats. </p>
<p>Not saying that you can’t get in with lower numbers, but it may take some good extracurriculars, or “special” skills such as athletics or music or proven leadership.</p>
<p>I think I can manage that by junior year…I hope
Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>
<p>I think that there was about a 54% acceptance rate this year (based on the numbers I heard, 12000 accepted 22000 applied), so it’s definitely becoming increasingly difficult to get into.</p>
<p>But if you can get anything higher than a 3.0 and a 1100, then you have a good chance. Also, if you have higher SATs/ACTs or a higher GPA, they balance it out.</p>
<p>Just a note on that GPA thing, my son went to a public SC school, all of which use a really weird gpa scoring system which slightly exagerates the gpa. I believe that AUGirl went to a private school, which probably uses a normal gpa system. This probably explains why I am saying that to be “safe” you need at least a 3.2 and she is suggesting a 3.0. </p>
<p>the gpa system that her school used likely was a strict 4.0 scale while pubic schools in sc all use a really funky scale where you can actually get over a 4.0 for a non-honors class if you make a 100, yet a minimal A (a 93) would result in something like 3.5 instead of a 4.</p>
<p>I think that many colleges basically ignore the gpa’s that are reported by different schools and recompute gpa’s in such a manner that they are standardized.</p>
<p>I also suspect that some schools exagerate the numbers that they report. One of the colleges that my son applied at claims that their average unweighted gpa for accepted students is something like 3.93. I don’t believe that is true as I know that they accept many students who don’t have anything close to that.</p>
<p>You really shouldn’t get too caught up in worrying about what the average gpa or SAT/ACT scores are for different colleges. Just this past year I know several students who were accepted by schools that reported average SAT scores hundreds of point higher than what they have, and I also know several students who ended up enrolling in colleges that report average SAT scores that are hundreds of points below what they made. It’s much more important to find a school and a program that fits your specific individual needs and desires.</p>
<p>I complety agree with you…as I said before it is my junior year and I come from a very competitive private school in massachusetts. In my school they do gpa weird. A cp class getting A 's only gets you a 3.5. If you are in academic classes you can get 4.0 max. If you are in honors you can get 4.5 max, so on and so on. I’m pretty sure I can manage a 3.2 by graduation and hopefully get the average sat scores.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>
<p>Yeah. The SC Public Grading System is crazy. I recalculated my GPA on that system so that I could make sure I’d have the LIFE scholarship. It went from my school’s 3.53 on the standard system to a 3.8 or 3.9. I couldn’t believe the difference.</p>
<p>But basically, you want to make sure that your grades are mostly A’s and B’s.</p>
<p>I do think it will be more difficult to get in next year. Carolina is probably going to have a really good football season and that means the applications will increase. USC’s rankings went down this year because they enrolled a larger class, and so they might try to make the incoming freshman class smaller to get that back up. They wanted to cap this year’s class at 4500, but they ended up with 4550. So they’re not hurting for students.</p>
<p>Does that mean if I apply to usc my gpa gets recalculated?</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC App</p>