USC 2018 Class of 2022 Trustee and Presidential Award Notices

@yungsnake99, yes did it the first day it was available, think it was February. You might want to do it before the regular admitted students do next week, although I think students with Presidential/Trustee may have priority housing at the Village in McCarthy dorm.

@Nomorelurker alright, thanks. I better get on it then!

@CADREAMIN and @Nomorelurker - yes - the admissions person who answered the phone was so nice and said she just had a recent update on the scholarship notifications and then conferred with a colleague. Said they would be sending out letters on Friday (for scholarship recipients) and also updating portals. Didnā€™t sound like it was Thursdayā€¦ But we will seeā€¦ Yesā€¦positive, Trojan thoughts to us all!!!

@925275 so they will be sending letters in addition to updating the portal?

@gg0810, yes they will send letters and update the portal on Friday, at least according to what USC conveyed yesterday.

@925275, I was told the same by a USC representative and I believe it will be Friday. Itā€™s not that hard. Wash U put out a date weeks ago and released the info on their portal on time. Emory put out their date will be tomorrow and I expect it will be 6pm (EST) as they wrote. Only one university that S applied to said they would put out information on a certain date and did not do what they said, released it a day early. No way to know if they knew this in advance or changed their mind to do it earlier. I think it creates anxiety to say one thing and do another. Best policy in my view is to consistently do what is said or written, preferably announced in advance by several weeks.

Did anyone get a follow up postcard from their interviewer from the ExploreUSC weekend?

@Nomorelurker I did, Iā€™m not sure if it means anything

@gg0810, so did my S. I guess weā€™ll find out in the next day or two :-).

@Nomorelurker my D got a very nice postcard from the student interviewer on her panel.

I did not, and that frightens me since every other Explore kid Iā€™ve asked has gotten one.

@gliscorlion , it is possible that the student interviewer forgot to send it or maybe got lost in the mail. Have you gotten into some other schools or safeties?

Iā€™m sure it means nothing. Everybody tries to read something into every little thing, but school have been doing this long enough that they donā€™t tip their hands.

@Nomorelurker I didnā€™t even get a student interviewer, I had a faculty member and a member from the admissions team at Dornsife. Thankfully Iā€™m blessed to have numerous options, but at this point Iā€™ve basically mentally committed to USC.

@gliscorlion, sorry that was a typo. Didnā€™t mean ā€œstudentā€ interviewer. I meant ā€œinterviewerā€. Always good to have options. Wishing you luck on USC especially if that is your #1 choice.

@vhsdad, you might be right. Every year students and/or parents try to read too much into things to try and predict the outcome. The answer will be here soon enough!

USC Admissions confirmed that the merit scholarship decisions will be posted on Friday on their Snapchat story.

After conversing with the person who runs their snap, they said, ā€œno specific time but expect portals to be updated around midnightā€

Sounds like 4:05 pm is probably a go then?

I was told by Admissions a couple days ago that it would be Friday afternoon.

Nothing in the portal after 4pm (PST) this evening. Looking like itā€™s gonna be tomorrow.