<p>Marshall (Leventhal School of Accounting)</p>
<p>3.8 UW GPA, 4.1 W
32 ACT (what our region primarily uses), 2090 SAT</p>
<p>Not many EC/honors at all on the original application. Over the course of the year, I changed that & become much more involved–that’s what I based my appeal primarily off of.</p>
<p>Committed to Drake University.</p>
<p>Originally Viterbi, but wrote in appeal how interests have changed, so hope to study Biochem in fall (soo Dornsife)</p>
<p>3.7 UW, 4.1 weighted
2290 ACT, 34 ACT, National Merit Finalist
SAt II: Math 2C (750), Chem (750), Bio (780), US History (660 
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<p>Biggest weakness must have been essay, as EC’s are pretty good. Talked about increased interest in bio/med field, marching band + new music related awards</p>
<p>Committed to UCSD.</p>
<p>Do you think financial aid is affected for those who get accepted?</p>
<p>appealing for dornsife too…
i would imagine that a request for FA is a factor.</p>
<p>Committed to Tufts University</p>
<p>Hello, I appealed to Dornsife as an Econ major. </p>
<p>I was wondering if you all think we will receive our appeal decision on or around May 10th, based on last year’s thread? I’ve also read something about an email being received. Is that the way the decision is communicated?</p>
<p>My guess is that appealers’ financial aid will be affected in some way. Based on those admitted on appeal to other schools here on CC, I can say that they did not receive their fin aid award until after their SIR deadline. Hopefully USC is different this year.</p>
<p>lexii232, if you are accepted on appeal you will receive the same financial aid you would have received if you had been accepted by April 1st (this is assuming the applicant submitted ALL financial aid applications and documents in a timely manner).</p>
<p>No accepted student will be required to submit a commitment deposit before their financial aid package is presented (again, assuming all financial aid applications and documents have been submitted). If you need to know the amount of your aid before committing, request an extension of your commitment deadline until your aid is received - it will be granted.</p>
<p>Required applications & documents: CSS/Profile, FAFSA, copies of tax returns PLUS any other requested documents. Check your USConnect documents tab to see if you have any missing documents. It may update with additional required materials if you are accepted on appeal, so if accepted check USConnect each day as you wait for your package.</p>
<p>Good luck!!!</p>
<p>Thank you alamemom!!! 
That was very, very helpful! I just hope I’m lucky enough to get the opportunity to put down a commitment deposit.</p>
<p>By the way, Ruiz1717–I do believe we’ll be notified on May 10th, by email, sometime in the evening. Based on CC posts from prior years, it could be anywhere from 6-12pm. And both successful/nonsuccessful appeals get email notifications.</p>
<p>Do you think appeals this year will be as successful as they were last year? USC freshmen admissions have been especially difficult this year</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t think so. The switch to the Common App. influenced admission decisions in a way that, in the end, USC had a much lower “yield” than normal. So they basically accepted twice as many appeals to make up for that. I’m not sure if I explained this completely accurately haha, but I know other posters have gone more in-depth in similiar threads (if not earlier in this one).</p>
<p>Actually, the switch to the Common App had little effect on yield. The 2012 yield was 33%, which was consistent with the 32% to 34% yield over the last several years.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1213/USCFreshmanProfile2012.pdf</a></p>
<p>Earlier threads (before the freshman profile was released) hypothesized that the switch to the Common App would cause yield to go down, but when figures were released it did not turn out to be so. </p>
<p>USC practices enrollment management through Spring admission and through the SGR process in transfer admission, not through the appeals process. It is important to remember that appeals are not considered on a space-available basis, but rather on whether there was information not included in the application or accomplishments since the application that would have changed the initial decision. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>Oops, guess I did have it wrong! I’m glad the yield was normal last year, that gives me a little more hope for this year.
So alamemom, I have three more questions–were many more appeals accepted last year than were accepted in 2011, 2010, etc? And if so, did that mean that 2012 just had LOTS of applicants who fulfilled the “new and compelling” information requirement? Not any other factors in their favor?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your thorough responses alamemom! And not just on this thread, I’ve seen you all over the board! I can’t stress how helpful all this information has been to me. Plus, it keeps my mind off the wait itself. Haha. 6 more days… at least the Great Gatsby comes out that day! :)</p>
<p>I haven’t seen any reliable and verifiable information stating that there were more appeals accepted last year than any other, but given the 25% + increase in freshman applications last year, it stands to reason that there would be a corresponding increase in the raw number of appeals submitted and granted. Unfortunately, a percentage increase does not make it any “easier” or “more likely” that an appeal will be granted on an individual basis. The odds stay the same.</p>
<p>To illustrate, IF: when there were 37,000 applications there was a 24% acceptance rate and 28,000 rejected applicants with about a 3% appeal rate (~800 appealing) and about 4.5%, or 35 applicants, were accepted on appeal, THEN it stands to reason that with 47,000 applications, a 19% acceptance rate and 38,000 rejected applicants, again 3% (now a total of 1,140) of those rejected would appeal. A 4.5% appeal success rate would produce about 50 successful appealers. The raw number of successful appeals would increase by 43% (15/35), but the individual odds of any one appealer would remain at 4.5%</p>
<p>Hopefully the convoluted string of numbers and percentages above provides distraction from the loooong wait . In the meantime, I hope that all of you are diving wholeheartedly into your other wonderful options - the qualifications of all the applicants this year was simply astounding, and I know you will all be amazing at any university. USC would be lucky to have you, and here’s hoping you all get the news for which you are hoping.</p>
<p>I think the real problem was the fact that they selected a bunch of ivy level students of which mostly went to the ivy’s they got into or a top UC. I knew people this year that got into duke, penn, ucla, cal, and were rejected at USC … me being one of them :(</p>
<p>? As mentioned a few posts above, the yield actually was consistent with previous years, so the anticipated “problem” did not materialize. USC targeted a class of 2,900 for 2012 (300 more than in previous years) and, as always, enrolled more than the targeted number - a total of 3,021 for Fall.</p>
<p>Do you happen to know if appeals enter as undeclared, or are some actually admitted directly into their school of choice? </p>
<p>I’ve looked at so many “USC appeals” threads that the posts are getting all jumbled up in my head! Haha.</p>
<p>Did anyone appeal successfully?</p>
<p>Oops, I mean this year cuz I heard USC will send out the successful notifications since May 1.</p>
<p>We won’t hear back from USC until the 10th</p>
<p>Hi guys! I have some information to share. I haven’t signed in to CC for awhile because I forgot my password and was too lazy and stuff.</p>
<p>My cousin currently attends USC as a sophomore. He introduced me to a friend who successfully appealed. I can’t give you exact stats, but he was from RI and had somewhere around a 1700 SAT and was (surprisingly) accepted for Fall 2012. They also gave him a scholarship. He’s Chinese (if that helps lol).</p>
<p>For people who had low scores… hope is not lost!</p>