<p>So I just called USC admission office regarding my application. The admission officer said that I should call the person who is reading my application about my situation.</p>
<p>So I called, and here are some updates about scholarships. </p>
<p>1) All applicants who submit their applications before December 1st deadline will receive a notification. This means even if you don't qualify for scholarships, they will still notify you informing you that you are still being considered for regular admission.</p>
<p>2) For those who are being considered for Trustee or Presidential scholarships, they will not receive their formal acceptance letter until April. They will receive a notification informing them that they are qualify for either Trustee or Presidential scholarship. </p>
<p>3) He said that USC will send out the notification letters next week (but apparently there are already some students from CC received their notification??? TROLL??)</p>
<p>KristyE, I think you didn’t get such a straight story from the person you spoke with. Here are some small corrections:</p>
<p>1) This is right info, but for some reason a scattering of applicants who applied before Dec 1 do not get this letter. Not sure why. But for most, those who applied by Dec 1 who are NOT in contention for an interview-based merit scholarship do get a letter some time in February informing them of this.</p>
<p>2) This is really mixed up. The official acceptance packages are sent out to those being offered interviews for Presidential and Trustee (not for NMF Pres, though). These letters seem to already be arriving. Today, several were received in the SoCal area and some international candidates have received notification the packages are coming by DHL. This makes sense, since the interviews are end of Feb. In fact, most admitted students will get their packages at the end of March. The students who interview for Trustee or Pres will receive a letter at the end of March informing them of which (if any) scholarship they are being offered. Many students will get letters with other smaller merit scholarships all the way through April.</p>
<p>3) Not sure what notification letters this refers to. If it’s the you-didn’t-get-a-Trustee-invitation, that usually comes out mid to late Feb. </p>
<p>Sorry if this has been confusing, but the admissions office doesn’t like to give specific info and some student-staffers may have misinformation.</p>
<p>@nickneland did you receive just a letter stating you were up for a scholarship or did you receive your actual acceptance letter?</p>
<p>I received an actual acceptance letter, inside the packet it also said that I was up for a Trustee scholarship, and had info about Explore USC, etc</p>
<p>@madbean I just deleted my post because I saw yours right after I published mine haha thanks for the info I am in VA and am really hoping to receive a scholarship info I don’t know if all this info is making me more or less anxious but I thank you for it anyway!</p>
<p>It definitely makes us all more anxious, but no one can stop!!! I’ve been there, done that with 2 kids kv, so I feel for everyone here. But there are a few more days at least until VA will get the word.</p>
<p>So at first, I called the general admission office about my situation (it’s quiet complicated actually). But the lady couldn’t answer all my questions, so she found the person who is assigned to read my application, and told me to call him.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll ellaborate about my situation a little. I applied as an international student because I don’t have a physical copy of my green card. But I do have my alien registration number. I called USC before I applied, and they said that I am qualified as a domestic student since I already have my A# and I go to school in US. But I still declared myself as an international student on common app because other schools I applied to don’t use the same policies. </p>
<p>So I applied as an international student to USC but I didn’t bother to submit a Personal Financial Statement because the admission said that I am qualified as a domestic student. But last week, when I check my USConnect status, it says that I am missing my Personal Financial Statement. Furthermore, I searched through USC website and found that “an acceptance letter will not be sent out until the applicant submitted his/her Personal Financial Statement”. I got really worried because I read that the students who are being considered for Presidential/Trustee scholarships will receive their acceptance letter AND their scholarship notification.</p>
<p>So I called my application reader, and he told me that USC only sends out notification for applicants even if they are being considered for Presidential/Trustee scholarships. No official acceptance letter will be sent out until March. Also he said that USC will send out all the notifications next week. </p>
<p>Kristy, you must have misunderstood him, partly. Scholarship interviewees have ALWAYS gotten their big beautiful formal acceptance packets beginning now, for about a week or so, WITH notification they are being interviewed for the big scholarships.</p>
<p>It is later that they find out officially WHICH scholarship they’ll receive (PERHAPS MARCH, I forget the dates, but someone else will chime in).</p>
<p>And yes, kids who don’t get the early acceptances do often get letters around Feb. saying they didn’t, but that they’re still in the admissions pool and will be considered for other scholarships. But not everyone always gets those letters. My son never did, and he was accepted.</p>
<p>Official financial aid comes after acceptances - perhaps that led to part of your confusions.</p>
<p>Kristy, it is correct that until/unless you submit your Financial Statement you will NOT receive a letter of admission. That applies whether you are accepted in this first round (and, contrary to your first post, the acceptance packages are arrive as of yesterday by hand and today by mail - there also has been a report of an international applicant receiving a DHL email indicating that and acceptance package is on the way) or with the bulk of acceptances in March.</p>
<p>You should submit your financial letter as soon as possible.</p>
<p>I spoke with an admissions officer directly and was told that ALL candidates will be receiving notification at the same time, whether you are a scholarship candidate or not. Everyone should be getting mail soon, one way or the other.</p>
<p>Oh dear! So sorry you are going through this stress, KristyE. I agree you have a really unique situation. Since you are being considered as an International student your admissions rep is the one for your part of the world. Perhaps if you had applied as a domestic student, the rep would have been different–for that section of the US where your HS is?</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m not sure where the mis-communication about acceptance packets came from. But the question for you might be if applying as an Intl student but NOT submitting the financial statement needed for Intl students may have caused some delays in review. This would be really sad and I hope it’s not true, but international students are considered in a different way and without that financial statement, they may not have considered your application complete in time to review for Trustee scholarship consideration. If there are past international trustees or presidential scholars still lurking around this forum, maybe you could answer?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to freak you out more, but if others should be in your shoes, it’s good to inform them that there are different requirements for filing as an international applicant in order to get all docs in. Kristy, I really don’t know for sure if you needed to get that financial doc in by the Dec 1 deadline, but it’s a possibility? </p>
<p>Anyway, USC only invites admitted students to interview for their top scholarships. They would only invite the top 4% or so, and those are students who are clearly being admitted. There are costs to traveling to USC for the scholarship interview, so it wouldn’t be right to ask a student to go to all this trouble if they weren’t at least admitted! </p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve been following admissions for the past 4 years since my older son got his invitation to the Trustee interview. He also got the full USC admission packet at that time (end of January).</p>
<p>There are still thousands and thousands of kids to get admissions packets in the more normal month of March, so please keep the hope alive.</p>
<p>I really need to call him again tomorrow then! </p>
<p>Because the reason why I didn’t submit a Personal Financial Statement is because I thought that I was being considered as domestic student according to an admission officer I talked to over the phone. But I emailed USC last week about my USConnect status and they said that I am not a domestic student util I actually receive my green card. But USC never email me to inform me about my missing materials. And I have been told two different things. </p>
<p>And according to alamemom, I am actually disqualified from being considered for Presidential/Trustee scholarships then?</p>
<p>Mums, your info is very interesting too. It is possible that this year will be different than the past. Perhaps all the letters (some admissions packets with invitations for scholarship interviews PLUS all the letters with the sorry-no-big-scholarship-invitation but you’re still being considered for admissions) are going out at the same time. This is a big change, if so, from all prior years.</p>
<p>As for when they are mailed, it’s clear admissions are beginning to be received. I suspect when the head of admissions drives a few out to lucky students in his neighborhood, that’s an indication that the rest of the packets (and letters?) hit the mail.</p>
<p>KristyE, did you tell him about this conflicting status thing (domestic and international) when you spoke to him today? BTW, you can look up your admissions rep - likely the one you spoke to - by going here (it will also give you his email address):</p>
<p>mums, I feel you have misunderstood. As others have said, traditionally USC has only notified the Presidential and Trustee candidates and some Dean’s awardees of their admission in January and early February. All others have had to wait for March. When you consider that USC has likely received over 40,0000 applications this year, you can see that 35 admissions officers could not possibly have considered them all at this point. Over 95% of acceptances will arrive in March.</p>
<p>Maybe what mums meant… or what the person she spoke to meant… is that all candidates will receive either an acceptance/scholarship interview or a no-scholarship letter in the next week or so. If so, that would mean they’re getting those no-scholarship letters out a bit faster than in the past.</p>
Great information!</p>