<p>Hey guys!
i really want to study business at the marshall at USC
i was wondering what are my chances of getting in</p>
<p>i am a rising senior in california. in my first three years of high school i havent taken as many ap's/ honors's and i regret that.
gpa:4.23
unweighted: 3.85
freshman year: honors history, honors geom
soph: honors eng, honors alg 2
junior: honor pre calc, AP ENG
Future Senior Schedule: AP Envir Sci, AP CALC AB, AP Psych, Honors Eng
SAT: 2020 (february)
retaking it in october (goal is 2200)
math 2c: 780 history: 690
ec:
100+ hours at an non profit org
50 hours volunteer tutoring inner city kids
4 years (including senior year) Tennis High School Team
3 years worked for dads business (every weekend) and most of summer
play guitar and piano
coached tennis to kids (volunteer)
volunteered at my church every week
key club 3 years
Green club 4 years
Spanish club 2 years</p>
<p>The numbers look pretty good, but ultimately it’s about showing the admission staff what kind of a person you are. Those volunteering activities are definitely a plus. If you continue those and take a leadership role in them, it will definitely help you.</p>
<p>USC looks like a match. Your UW GPA is average for 2010 Admits though your SAT Is are at the 25th%-tile. A good showing (2100+) on the October SAT and you should be fine.</p>
<p>What will help you is that USC has a very large freshman class in comparison to lots of other private highly ranked schools. I’d say 50/50… but I don’t count.</p>
<p>FYI, I jumped over to Google to have a look at USC’s Common Data Set, but didn’t find it. I am suspicious of the true selectivity and SAT scores of an instituion that doesn’t report its data in a common format. Assume the selectivity data that USC publishes is fudged significantly to the high side… why else would they not publish CDS? When Duke finally published its CDS last year, lo and behold, the 25/75 SAT was 30 points lower than their self reported data.</p>
<p>There are plenty of strong business schools all across the country. Where do you want to live after graduation? Schools’ alumni-career networks are strongest closest to the “mother-ship”. Other ideas: Indiana, Carnegie-Mellon, Michigan, Boston College could all be matches.</p>
<p>As for the Common Data Set, there are a lot of schools that don’t publish in that format, (Boston College and Occidental come to mind). If you want to weave a conspiracy theory out of that be my guest, personally I’m going to need more than Duke’s 30 drop on average SATs of 2145 (<1.5%) to believe in widespread institutional malfeasance.</p>
<p>Vinceh is incorrect, you are in fact in the 40-45th percentile for SATI, 25th percentile is 1910, 75th percentile is 2210. Regardless, a better score is always a plus!</p>
<p>The USC provided pdf clearly shows that the composite SAT1 25th%-tile of admitted students is 2020. The OP tells us his only actual SAT 1 results are 2020. How is it that the OP’s SAT1s are anything but the 25th%-tile? </p>
<p>Students will display a broad range of performance on the individual segments of the SAT. For example, some will score in the 50th%-tile for math, combined with <=20th%-tiles for CR & Writing, the net result is that they produce a composite 25th%-tile score. So while simply adding the individual low scores is arithmetically accurate it is statistically incorrect to call that number the bottom quartile. </p>
<p>Finally, the 1910 referred to appears to be the sum of the 25th%-tiles of the enrolling students. Since you need to be admitted before you can enroll, a better gauge of the OP’s competition is the admitted pool.</p>