<p>“Sidenote, and really the only thing I learned: While you may be considered an independent student by the Federal Government if you are 24 or older, you are not considered independent by USC. You must be 26 to be considered independent by USC. In the case of financial aid, you will not need to provide your parents income or any of their financial information to USC if you are considered independent.”</p>
<p>If you still decide on USC as your undergrad, you will need to provide your parents’ financial information. So, USC for grad school at 26 or 27 seems to be the way to go for you.</p>
<p>@laker I’m pretty sure you need to finish every pre-req before they accept you, I remember in Marshall Transfer Workshop where the admissions counselor said they must receive all your grades of the pre-reqs, and if not received, they will not begin to fully review your application. I don’t believe it’s on a case-by-case basis. She said that you need to send in your grades, as soon as you get the grades for your pre-req courses, don’t wait for the SGR, just send in your grades after you get them.</p>
<p>Also… even if you have a 4.0 with 59 units they won’t automatically accept you… they aren’t like public universities, and stress on the essay. The counselor also told me that if an applicant with a 4.0 but can’t write an essay will not get accepted as opposed to someone with a 3.5 and has a marvelous essay. I’m not trying to put you down, and you might have written a superb essay, but I don’t really like it when people automatically assume they will get in with a high GPA.</p>
<p>I applied to USC as a freshman and now I’m applying again as a transfer. Is there any way that the USC application system could be mixing up the two USC ID’s despite being two years apart? Whenever I log in with my email the Documents Received page only lists the required High School materials and says that I don’t have any other required documents to send in. I know that USC is probably getting a huge influx of mail but I ordered my college transcripts to be sent to USC two or three weeks ago and their absence on the page is getting me kind of freaked out.</p>
<p>Hello all. I applied to USC’s BFA Screenwriting program as my first choice, and Creative Writing as my second choice. I think the first program is based mostly on writing samples. If I’m not accepted into that, I still hope to be accepted into the creative writing program.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 GPA, BUT only 46 hours(58 after this semester.) Unfortuanately, my high school GPA was a whopping 2.23. I graduated in '04 from HS. I feel like I wrote a solid essay, though it’s tough to judge your own writing.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if my pathetic high school grades will end up costing me admission. Anyone have any thoughts?</p>
<p>killerforhire - the same thing is happenin to me. It shows my high school transcript and all the other HS stuff like SAT scores , etc. However, my financial aid stuff was reviewed within one week of sending them in. I am going out on a limb and saying that maybe there are two departments reviewing stuff. The financial aid committee reviews all fin aid related documents, and the other is going through the pile of transcripts and possibly freshmen material also.</p>
<p>I am going to wait til the end of the week and hope things get figured out.</p>
<p>@wghiller if you have more than 30 units they don’t base their decisions on your high school grades… 4.0 with 46 units is damn good, I’d say you have a very, very, high chance of getting in, and I wouldn’t worry about your high school grades at all…</p>
<p>actually I’m in the exact same boat as you, I’ve got 46 units now and 58 after this semester, and I barely graduated high school. I’ve got a 3.93 now (one B, dammit!)… so hopefully we’ll both get in?? haha</p>
<p>Anyone have that one grade that seemed to have “ruined” your GPA? Mines my Spanish grade. Got A’s on all the tests, quizzes, and assignments, however, we needed “lab” hours. These “lab” hours were during my wrestling practices, causing me to be unable to complete lab hours. I complained constantly to the teacher, but she was unwilling to see my problem as a real problem saying that it was “my choice to choose wrestling over Spanish.” Anyways, ended up with a C in the class because lab hours were a hefty amount of my final grade.</p>
<p>@killerforhire don’t worry man the same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago! I also ordered for my college transcripts to be sent to USC, but I had to wait for about 4-5 weeks before it finally appeared in the Documents Received page. I got so anxious if they received my transcript or not that I sent in another copy of my transcript just in case, but the day after I logged on and saw that they finally received it.</p>
<p>Sweet! We seem to have virtually identical resumes, with the exception that your HS grades probably aren’t QUITE as bad as mine!</p>
<p>I’ve been reading about some of the film courses USC offers. It looks like they’ve had film screenings and Q&A’s with Jason Reitman, Spielberg, Judd Apatow–all of this research is getting my hopes up…</p>
<p>I, too, was a bit concerned when my updated transcript didn’t appear. It took at least 4 weeks, but it’s on there now. I wouldn’t be concerned. I’m guessing they have more transcripts/applications/lors/etc than they can handle right now!</p>
<p>Transfers will not be notified until around May. A thread will be made on the same grounds as last year, I would think: Only yes/no decisions without discussion.</p>
<p>I am currently in the process of sending applications out to some schools, and as I get deeper into this process, I am beginning to realize that USC is the perfect match for me in terms of academics, location, and student life. I am currently a freshman at a California CC, and I sent out my application to SC three weeks ago. I have completed 22 units thus far, and I am in the process of completing 15 additional units during the Spring 2010 semester. I am becoming worried about my chances because I am currently taking 3 of the 4 pre-reqs for Marshall this semester (Wrting 130, Macro-Econ, and Business Calc). The rest of my application is solid otherwise (4.0 College GPA, 3.5 HS GPA, 33 ACT, solid extracurriculars/essays). I understand that because I am taking pre-reqs in the Spring, I will only get accepted through a SGR, but will my chances of receiving a SGR be greatly diminished because I am taking so many pre-reqs during the Spring semester? I’d really appreciate any insight into this. Thanks for any support.</p>
<p>^well since u don’t have 30 units completed at the time of ur application, they will judge u mostly on ur HS stats and SAT scores. if u had to take prereqs for calc and the writing course (precalc, freshman comp) ur first semester, they will prolly understand as to y ur taking that many prereqs in the spring</p>
<p>@Spin03, Correction on laker’s assertion, they will not look at your H.S. grades if you have 30 units completed BY the end of this year 2010 school year, excluding summer [it isn’t at the time of submitting the application], because they won’t even start considering you until you have SENT IN and they have RECEIVED all your prerequisite grades for Marshall. It is until you send in the transcripts after spring containing your Macro, Writ 130, and Business Calc grade, will they judge your application. They will not throw you aside because you are taking all 3 prereq courses in spring, since they will start the official reviewing process once you have sent those grades in. What they will judge you on is whether or not you were consistent with your previous 4.0 GPA and able to at the very least get A-s in all of the prereq courses. I know it says on the site that if you get a B in prereq courses then you are competitive, but in order to stand out as a freshman transfer and showing your consistency in college, you should try to get all As in those courses, and if you are able to do so, I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t get accepted for Fall 2010 or at the very least Spring 2011. That is also of course if your essay is as strong as you say it is.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification; its very reassuring. I was unfamiliar with how they handled sophomore transfers, so thank you for that information xdzzzrawr.</p>