<p>That is awesome.</p>
<p>USC would be ranked higher next year, maybe top 20. That would make USC more pretigeous (Think about what WUSTL has done).</p>
<p>US News uses 16 factors in their ranking system. Selectivity is only one of the 16. The statistics used are from the previous year. The new rankings are coming out in September for the “Best National Universities”. Numbers will be from the class that entered in 2010.</p>
<p>Also Robert Morse indicated information from the Carnegie classifications will be considered for the new rankings.</p>
<p>This is gonna change USC a lot I bet. With the introduction to usage of the common app more people are definitely going to apply because of proven convenience, I know of a few people who didn’t apply for the fall 2011 year because of the whole separate application. Their original application process was weird, but it helped set it apart as a school an showed if students were interested in the school because of the time they are setting aside for it. I think also USC wants national recognition which is what it has been working on for some time.</p>
<p>Saitsuzan, you have to also consider the yield. If USC is going to become more selective, the yield percentage will probably go up and therefore USC will actually have to start admitting a lower number of applicants</p>
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<p>What are these Carnegie classifications that you speak of?</p>
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<p>Good point, I hadn’t thought about yield. So you’re saying that greater selectivity will increase prestige and thus result in higher yield, forcing USC to accept less people in order to remain at current levels of enrollment? If this is true, then the acceptance rate will become even lower.</p>
<p>I used both systems and making the common app personal is up to the university. I am a production major, so I had a lot of portfolio requirements. My NYU and Champman app were way much personal than my BU app which, unlike the others, didn’t ask many personal questions, extra essays, video supplements, etc. I did find the USC application more user friendly mostly because of the layout of the page, but I bet it will still be personal at the Common App. Besides with that many supplements, those who are not truly interested in applying to USC will not fill the application.</p>
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<p>I think you’ve got it the exact opposite unfortunately. That’s not how it works.</p>
<p>^ Then, how does it work?</p>
<p>Does this mean there won’t be a supplement app for applying for film?</p>
<p>I don’t know about the film supplement, but my previous comment was directed at the individual who thought more selectivity means higher yield. He/she couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, it’s usually the opposite. When a university surges in selectivity due to some new implementation (as an example joining the common app which increases your applicants greatly) they will see a drop in yield if they admit too high of a profile that does not meet the university “match” since most admitted students will decide to enroll elsewhere. The reason for this is, if we assume USC becomes more selective very quickly and admits higher and higher caliber students, chances are those students will have gained admission to places better than USC and will choose not to attend USC dropping its yield. USC as well as any other college can only admit a profile based on its name brand/reputation. USC is definitely up there, but thinking that in 1-3 years due to the common app USC will increase in both selectivity and yield is naive.</p>
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<pre><code>Even without the common application SC had a substantial increase of applicants last year. The admit rate was 22% for the incoming class entering in August 2011. That rate compares quite favorably to other national universities such as Emory at 25%, NYU at 25%, Carnegie-Mellon at 30%, Univ. of Virginia at 32%, Univ. of North Carollina at 29%, Georgia Tech at 47%, Notre Dame at 24% and UCLA at 25%.
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<p>Right now it is only speculation about the yield rate when the country in a state of economic uncertainty and a new application system is instituted. </p>
<p>(Admit rates were from a listing in the NYTimes-Education section.)</p>
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<p>Absolutely not. The supplement is integral to SCA admission and doing away with it would cause a lot of problems.</p>
<p>can anyone find me the usc supplement? I went to the common app page where they had every college’s supplement but when I scrolled down to usc, they didn’t have one. So does that mean no extra essays?</p>
<p>Oh crap. I’m screwed. I really want to go to USC, but the acceptance rates are going to be lower.</p>
<p>And I’m only a hs sophomore :(</p>
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<p>It’s on USC’s website.</p>
<p>I was confused – I thought they were keeping the USC application in addition to the common app. Didn’t realize they were switching 100%. Stupid.</p>
<p>The Common App is horrible. It paints a very basic, boring and bland picture of the applicants in my opinion.</p>