<p>I have this message, and I applied a day early. I believe on the 2014 stats thread, someone handed their application in a day late and already got accepted.</p>
<p>^guys is looks like we are SOL when it comes to scholarships, I’m going to hold out hope until tuesday but if the packet doesn’t come…</p>
<p>I live in Socal about 45 mins away from USC and I have neither gotten a status update nor the package… However, my financial aid packet has updated </p>
<p>Did everyone who was accepted have their portal status updated at all?</p>
<p>I live close to USC, but I haven’t gotten anything yet. No package or status update. </p>
<p>This has just been the perfect cap to a terrible weekend. First not making NAF now this…I understand that no one deserves anything but sometimes it just feels like the world is against you. USC was my dream school…</p>
<p>Don’t give up, yoskis! Remember there could be any number of delays with the post office and if the past proves anything, it’s that USConnect isn’t the end all be all. Hold onto hope!</p>
<p>I live in Hawai’i and nothing has changed. Hopefully tomorrow people will post that they received packets without a status change <em>fingers crossed</em></p>
<p>I got a status change and no packet. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten a packet without a status change ever?</p>
<p>well I didn’t get a status change or packet. There goes my chances at USC</p>
<p>no packet…anyone in CA not get a packet but had a status change. This stinks since without scholarship can’t go anyway in march. does anyone know if potential NMFs scholarships are automatic so they wouldnt notify now anyways…?</p>
<p>NMF are awarded a 1/2 tuition NMF Presidential Scholarship if they meet 3 criteria:</p>
<p>1) Are accepted to USC (acceptance is NOT guaranteed for NMSF or NMF)
2) Are named NMF
3) Name USC as their first-choice school by the deadline.</p>
<p>An interview is not required. Potential NMF may receive an invitation to interview, but that invitation would be coincidental to their NMSF status.</p>
<p>actstudent, your packet may be on its way! Good luck</p>
<p>alamemom, my question was…are all NMF if they applied before Dec 1, are they all accepted now? If they are accepted later in march, and if they are NMF, at that point that should kick in? </p>
<p>are there any NMF accepted later in march and then get presidential. Or if they wanted to at least give me 1/2 NMF I should have heard at this stage?</p>
<p>Hi, for those who have been admitted, is the USConnect portal allowing you to register for the ExploreUSC program in February? </p>
<p>
This cannot be said often enough - I do not want anyone to misunderstand and be terribly disappointed: NMSF/NMF are NOT guaranteed admission at USC regardless of when they submit their application.</p>
<p>As I stated above, interviews are NOT required for the 1/2 tuition NMF Presidential Scholarship - please see the criteria listed in my post above.</p>
<p>Again, scholarship interview invitations are not issued simply because an applicant may be a NMSF/NMF. Many NMSF receive scholarship invitations, but that is coincidental to their status as NMSF/NMF. To emphasize, colleges have not yet been notified of NMF status, so there is no way that invitations could be based on that anyway.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, NMSF are not automatically invited to interview. No interview is required for the NMF 1/2 tuition Presidential Scholarship. Admission is NOT guaranteed.</p>
<p>Yes, NMF accepted in March who meet the OTHER criteria (see above) are awarded the scholarship.</p>
<p>(If anyone thinks they can make this more clear, please jump in - I do not seem to be making headway 
)</p>
<p>BlabbersBear, </p>
<p>My portal is not showing exploreUSC under the events tab yet. I am thinking that it will probably change sometime in the next week.</p>
<p>Does anyone know how this might be handled for International Applicants? A bunch of my friends and myself all applied by the Dec 1 deadline (some US citizens, some other countries), and none of us have seen a status update, even before news of it being reverted came out. </p>
<p>I do not know if there will be any advance notice for Internationals this year, but in the past International applicants received a DHL email saying that a package from USC was on its way. I have not seen ANY such reports this year, so the procedure may have changed.</p>