USC Chances

College Search & Selection
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<p>JUNIOR
grades: As and Bs
I'm taking two ap classes, A- in one AP (art hist) and B in the other (french).
A- in English, B/B+ (can probably raise to B+) in math, B- (but i think i can get it up to a B) </p>

<p>Sports: varsity indoor track, varsity track [our team has competed in some high-profile relays & events]
ECs: Model UN, debate, school newspaper writer, stock market club
Squash on weekends (not competitive)
Spent a semester abroad
Internship summer before junior year either internship or job summer before senior
from a big city (sometimes people say it's easier to get into schools from small towns, so i just wanted to put that) </p>

<p>SAT scores:
writing 720-800
reading 650-700 (want this pefect though)
math 530-610 (working hard to get this into the high 600s, probably can)
no subject tests yet</p>

<p>chances of getting into USC? it would help if it were from someone who is attending/applied/got rejected, wait-listed, etc. </p>

<p>thanks!!!</p>

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<p>Which USC?</p>

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<p>LOL…hey, as a southern Cal girl, there is only ONE USC. ;)</p>

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<p>I did not look at your ECs b/c I could not get past the academic stats…</p>

<p>Your GPA and CR+M SAT scores would be in the “special admit” category. That means recruited athlete mostly. Your stats are more of a match to private colleges like LMU, Redlands, maybe some more private Jesuit like San Diego and Santa Clara. Trying to think of others where the midpoint SAT is 675/570 and GPA is 3.5 or 3.6… Oh, most schools do not adjust for + - grades: A, A-, B+, etc, it is usually rounded to A, B, C.</p>

<p>USC would typically be looking for 675/675 and 3.9 or 4.0 (unweighted) or 4.1-4.3 weighted. If you can get your SAT there, and your grades closer to that, you’d statistically be in the running and only THEN they would look at your ECs.</p>

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<p>The link below details the USC freshman profile for '09-'10. As you’ll see a 3.5 UW GPA will be below the average admit of 3.8. Your SAT Superscore comes to 2110 which puts you at the mid-point. Combining USC’s low admit rate (24%) and with you’re slightly below average academic position, I’d say USC is a reach; not way out of the question, but certainly not something to be comfortable with either. Getting your GPA up as high as possible this year along with adding 50 points to your math score would go a long way to improving your position.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2009.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;