USC 2010 Transfer Thread

Transfer Students
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<p>Where do you see that checklist? I don’t see that on my application. Thank you.</p>

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<p>I login here: <a href=“https://camel2.usc.edu/ESD/IOL/login.aspx[/url]”>https://camel2.usc.edu/ESD/IOL/login.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Then click on “my admissions checklist” which will give you this screen: <a href=“http://i.imgur.com/KTOKZ.jpg[/url]”>http://i.imgur.com/KTOKZ.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>DaisyDaisy: I’m hoping to live in a studio at The Pointe next year. It’s located just north of the campus, where many of the students tend to live. If I get in, I’ll most likely be a Sophomore (again!), so I’d prefer not to live in the dorms. Furthermore, I would like to live alone, as I’m very picky in regards to who I’d live with.</p>

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<p>When transferring from a CC would it be possible to receive a full ride or something close to it with scholarships awarded from the university? Thank You! When I look at the financial aid page for USC it says that the incoming freshman can receive them but the transfer scholarships are not that much or say amount varies.</p>

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<p>^there aren’t many scholarships available to transfer students besides the Transfer Merit Scholarships (the 2nd one on that list). everything else is basically for freshman</p>

<p>[USC</a> Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/grants_scholarships/undergraduates/meritbasedft.html]USC”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/grants_scholarships/undergraduates/meritbasedft.html)</p>

<p>but USC gives out a crapload of financial aid to make up for it though (or i’m hoping they would, at least). or else i can’t afford to go</p>

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<p>Yeah but my mom makes way to much money so our EFC is freaking high. 50k a year is A LOT of money. being around 100k in debt from stupid student loans when I still want to attend law school would be a waste.</p>

<p>by the way love the username! GO LAKERS!!!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/579670-usc-transfer-merit-scholarship.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/579670-usc-transfer-merit-scholarship.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If you have a high EFC, you can expect to pay about $40-50k a year. I, too, don’t qualify for much aid because of my family’s EFC unfortunately. :(</p>

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<p>@kulakai I have already submitted my CSS profile and FAFSA, so would they show up on oasis, I’m kind of confused since I submitted my CSS profile and FAFSA through their respective sites, will they still eventually show up when USC has received and processed them? Also the documents library has a bunch of documents, are we supposed to fax those even after filling out the FAFSA and CSS which contains our 2010-2011 tax forms? Thank you so much in advance.</p>

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<p>Hey thanks kulakai! It says they’ve received things I haven’t even sent, haha. Awesome!</p>

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<p>@xdzzzrawr - I think all those forms in the document library are for manually faxing stuff in which causes it to be auto scanned and updated in oasis. If you submitted everything I would assume they will be processed and then appear under “received” in the 2010-2011 Financial Aid Documents section. I still don’t see anything and it has now been 2 weeks since they received my transcripts which still haven’t shown up in there either :)</p>

<p>I’m personally gonna wait another two weeks before calling them about it.</p>

<p>Has anyone else here submitted all the css/fafsa stuff and seen it show up as processed and received in the Oasis site yet?</p>

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<p>So I happened to already have two letters of recommendation, and they’re both pretty solid. Can I send two? I’ve already sent one…I’d like to send the other, but I also don’t want USC to feel like I’ve sent too much or am trying to overcompensate. What do you think?</p>

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<p>Two is pretty standard. I’d never send more than two unless the third tells beneficial information about you that isn’t told in the first two. So with that I would send the second one in.</p>

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<p>If your parents make over $300K, how much can you expect to get? My dad is cheap, and giving me a hard time for having to pay everything: he claims that he had to pay for all of his education, and wants me to be capable of paying a bit myself (I’ve never had a job, so any money I have in the bank is also his). He’ll obviously pay it all if I get nothing, but what can I expect?</p>

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<p>@dreamingUSC - Scroll down to page 9 of this .pdf and read up on how they calculuate your EFC:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/private/docs/0809/PayingforUSC2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/fa/private/docs/0809/PayingforUSC2009.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thus far, I have not applied for any aid, though I am considering attempting to get Cal Grants. My parents have told me that I am an unlikely candidate for any sort of monetary aid, so I’d pretty much deemed it worthless. Where can I go about calculating the EFC?</p>

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<p>Many websites have an EFC calculator. It will require you have access to your parents income information (tax returns usually works well for this). Here is one such website to calculate it:</p>

<p>[FinAid</a> | Calculators | Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and Financial Aid](<a href=“http://www.finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml]FinAid”>http://www.finaid.org/calculators/finaidestimate.phtml)</p>

<p>Your parents are correct in that 300k household income is pretty high so I’d assume your expected family contribution number is pretty high.</p>

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<p>Hm, that pdf is pretty interesting. I have doubts though; I applied to a few schools last year that “meet 100% of FA need” with an EFC of about 20K, and got nothing for them. Guess I’ll see what happens this year if I happen to get in.</p>

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<p>I filled it out, but I left many things blank, as I did not know. Thus far, it’s at about $77,000. Is this a decent number? Sorry for being so uninformed :(</p>

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<p>@dreamingUSC, it depends on a lot of variables but to give you a rough estimate, my parents have a combined income of about a third less than yours and I qualify for zero need-based financial aid. This is with a substantial mortgage and a high cost of living expense too.</p>

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<p>Skyline12: Yeah, I figured my chances were slim, although my parents’ cost of living is also extremely high. Many on the board had been talking about financial aid, so I was curious about my chances, considering that if my dad had it his way, I’d be covering a couple-thousand dollars myself. I guess that I should grow accustomed to his complaining (assuming I get in, of course)!</p>