<p>"Fulfilling the Foreign Language Requirement:
The foreign language requirement may be satisfied only by:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>earning a passing grade in Course III of a foreign language sequence at USC or its equivalent elsewhere, or</p></li>
<li><p>scoring on the placement examination at a level considered by the language program as equivalent to the completion of Course III, or "</p></li>
</ol>
<p>According to that you don’t need 101/102, you simply need to complete the Spanish III course. So complete your 102 in the spring/summer and then place into 103 at USC and complete it there with a passing grade. That answer your question?</p>
<p>@Kulakai: Wow, I completely missed that page. I feel dumb. Hmm I think it does. So you think that taking 102 online (which would only transfer as elective credit) and then testing into 103 would be sufficient?</p>
<p>Chances are your 101 might not transfer but I wouldn’t worry about that. All they care about is you either completing Spanish III or testing out of it through their placement test. How you accomplish either is up to you So if I was you I would finish taking 102 in the spring and then self study up until you get to take the placement exam where you will hopefully place into 103 at USC or if you’re dedicated enough to self study a ton, possibly test out of it completely.</p>
<p>I’d also like to add as a friendly tip that taking foreign language online can be difficult for some as you miss out on a lot of in-class practice you would receive from speaking to classmates and the professor. To qualify for the 103 level at USC you might need to go the extra yard in studying.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m not too worried about 101 or 102 transferring (according to their website, both will transfer their unit values, but will only count as elective, which is fine with me!) I’ll just self-study and take the placement exam like you suggested!</p>
<p>Well my Spanish 102 class is a hybrid class, so we’re in class two days a week, and then do online work as well. Also, I’m a native speaker (but not enough to be fluent, if that makes sense lol), so I’m not too worried about that part. But I totally get what you’re saying! [:</p>
<p>Does anyone know about the foreign language requirements for Annenberg? because on th USC Annenberg transfer guidelines that only 1 semester of foreign language is required and I called a USC representative about a few weeks ago and she said only one semester is required, but everyone in here is saying that you need 3 semesters of a foreign language! Who’s right?!?! can someone PLEASE clarify this for me.</p>
<p>@socal4 I’m sure theres another place where it says this, but based on the 2010 Transfer Brochure, all four majors offered by Anneberg require a third semester foreign language (indicated by the weird red symbol next to their name on page 13. Sorry =( Maybe the webstie for Anneberg says that they want you to have at least completed one semester before your transfer, because the brochure is pretty clear about it.</p>
<p>I received an Incomplete grade last semester bc of a surgery in December. I finished the work & got an A, so I figured it would be smart to let USC know about it.</p>
<p>Then I just got my Winter session grade in Chem… a freakin C… I don’t even know what to say.</p>
<p>Anyways, it would look bad to update the C if we don’t even need to update the mid-year grades. </p>
<p>I had a 3.88, now 3.7ish, next sem can be 3.8 again. So USC would still be admitting me with the same stats. </p>
<p>Overall question: to update or not to update?</p>
<p>@joliefillie Mid-Year Grades are only for freshman not transfer. Although there is something similar to it for transfer students which is the Spring Grade Request but unless you get a spring grade request I wouldn’t say anything.</p>
<p>I am planning to transfer as a sophomore to USC in the fall 2010 academic year. However, the thing is I did not do so well in high school and I do not have enough units for my application to be solely based on my college transcript (btw I go to CSU Pomona, a 4 yr university that also has an articulation agreement with USC). But the thing is, my college GPA has drastically changed. Because of this, I was wondering if some of you guys would be able to kind of give me an interval of my chances of getting in this year. Here are my stats:</p>
<p>High school Unweighted GPA: 2.80
High school Weighted GPA: 3.32
SAT: 1850
College Freshman GPA (first quarter + transferrable courses only): 3.80
Grades: A, A, A-, A-, A-
Current College GPA (2nd quarter): 4.00 (straight A’s, all courses transferrable)
Extracurriculars: Eagle Scout (7 yrs of Boy Scouts), 10 yrs of playing the violin (played at weddings), black belt (7 years of taekwondo; also was instructor for red belt classes and received a bronze medal in the “forms” category and US Open Championship), President and Treasurer of Youth Council (for church) for one year each, three years of volunteering at a Soup Kitchen, and Army ROTC (currently participating in it right now at college).</p>
<p>Also, I was just wondering that because I am Korean-American, do I get any particular advantage in the admissions process because I am a minority? Thanks and I appreciate all your guys’ comments.</p>
<p>@joliefillie As Striker15 said, there isn’t a form necessary. An incomplete is looked at like an F. But since that means your transcript would also have you submitting a C, assuming everything else is the same, its pretty much would you rather have an F on the transcript or a C?
This all assumes you have send a new transcript, but you could just ask your prof to write and sign a letter on letterhead saying that you had an incomplete because of necessary surgery and you have improved that grade to an A. The worst thing that can happen is USC asks you for your full transcript which shows a C rather than an F equivalent.</p>
<p>@Foodmunkee: I can’t really see being Korean-American helping you since its umbrella, Asian, is not a small minority at SC. Your college GPA is .14 higher than the average admitted student’s, but its not supported by many units; obviously the HS stats don’t help very much and they’ll have to look at those. But you do have respectable ECs, so if you put together good writing on the application it might be the boost you need. Its also quite possible that they will SGR you since you seemed to have mostly turned it around for college but they want to have more than one term’s grade as support for that. So I say most likely you get an SGR.</p>
<p>@lagunaSC- so theyll ask for spring grade request if you dont have enough units and did bad in HS? What about me…I will be going in as a sophomore. but ill only need 1 or two more classes then im a junior since i will have about 50 units and i have a 3.89 GPA now. I barely graduated HS, but that was 3 years ago…would they still request a SGR even if i clearly showed a drastic change?</p>
<p>if u have over 30 units completed, they (supposedly) don’t look at ur HS grades. they just need to make sure that u graduated and have ur diploma. u will get an SGR if u did not finish the prereqs for ur major yet (but it is on a case by case basis). i applied to marshall and i didn’t finish calc yet but i dont think i’ll get an SGR. i have 59 units completed, 4.0 gpa, and i’m only taking 12 units this semester. so there’s a very low probability that i will get a B this semester so they’ll probably just accept me right away</p>
<p>o and i jsut checked my status page and it looks like they received everything, i think. now i just need to send in tax returns and i’m done. </p>
<ul>
<li> High School Transcript </li>
<li> Letter of recommendation </li>
<li> Transcript: Orange Coast College </li>
<li> Personal Statement Activity Sheet </li>
<li> Personal Statement Activity Sheet </li>
<li> Personal Statement Activity Sheet </li>
<li> Personal Statement Activity Sheet </li>
<li> Undergraduate Application </li>
<li> Web Part I App</li>
</ul>
<p>@Dainese No they say they look heavily at HS if you have completed less than 30 semester units, otherwise they’ll simply look at it to get a feeling of who you are (and make sure you graduated). They will focus on your college grades because completing 50 transferable semester units puts you well over this threshold.</p>
<p>@lakerforever24 SGRs are not only for people who have not completed their major pre-reqs, although that is a very common reason why some people do. Otherwise, its for people who they want to make sure continued their academic performance, or improved it in borderline cases. And I wish I had your confidence about getting accepted, we’re in the same boat with GPA and I APed out of Calc, but I still have doubts. Do you know a secret I do not?</p>
<p>Does anyone else have “Selective Service Registration Status” under their financial aid documents that they still need?
Haven’t seen this or heard of this til just now…</p>
<p>Skyline: yeah it’s tough. USC has always been my dream school but i dont want to be 100k in debt then just add another 100 with grad school. I think I have to forgo a dream and who knows maybe go to grad school at usc? my choices now will the the Arizona schools sense i will be moving there, LSU, and mississippi state.</p>
<p>Just realized when I finish my 2 years at a community college i will be 24 which means i would not have to put my families info down. So what type of aid would you receive if my EFC came to 0?</p>
So if I was you I would finish taking 102 in the spring and then self study up until you get to take the placement exam where you will hopefully place into 103 at USC or if you’re dedicated enough to self study a ton, possibly test out of it completely.</p>