@Abwee67 my portal hasn’t been updated at all. @pennh10 I applied for the biomedical engineering major in Viterbi.
Nevermind! Upon further review, I was selected to interview for full tuition scholarships, yay!
@celegood Congratulations!
Now that you will be college students, take some time to research answers to your questions, they are all already on this forum. I suggest everyone getting a packet read everything in this link which is pinned above:
@Madbean, imo, has been the long reigning Queen of USC CC, she spent a lot of time and made wonderful posts over last several years about the admissions process. Most of the information still holds true. The only thing I see below that is different from when she posted this is the “no scholarship” letter comes out faster. Use to be weeks later, then a week later, last year it was within 4-5 days of the packets.
@xcjunior2016 this is an @madbean post from the link that pertains to your question:
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At the end of January, early February, students selected to be interviewed will receive their official admissions packets, learn which major they were admitted to (in cases where more than one were listed on the application) and also get the code to a portal from which they may sign up for their interview from a selection of offered dates (usually late Feb). In recent years, USC has sent out a letter to those who applied by the Dec 1 deadline but were not selected for the interview a few weeks later (mid Feb or so) to let them know there status–which is they are among those being reviewed for admissions decisions. From personal observation, this isn’t always the news many applicants would wish for, but many of the excellent candidates who are not interviewed will actually be awarded a Dean’s Scholarship, a notification which comes with the end-of-March admissions packets. A Dean’s is worth 1/4 tuition for 4 years. There are other, smaller, scholarships which are also awarded at that end-of-March date as well.
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Students who are invited to interview for a particular merit scholarship (Trustee, or Presidential) are finalists in the competitive process to award these prizes. Decisions are based on the interview, so some students will receive the scholarship they interviewed for, while others will not. Each year we observe that the majority of students are awarded the scholarship they are up for–maybe about 2/3 get the prize they are interviewed for would be my guesstimate from CC reports. A small number of Presidential interviewees get boosted up to the Trustee level, while a small number of Trustee interviewees may instead be awarded the Presidential award. And both Trustee and Presidential interviewees have been offered the Dean’s or other scholarships. We have never heard about a finalist receiving nothing at all. USC notifies students of the merit scholarship they have been awarded at the end of March (it comes in a small envelope).
Another excerpt from an @madbean post that is pretty interesting: (I would guess the pool may be larger than 20K now, this was from 2013.)
So, what IS my shot?
About 800 (rough estimate) are invited to interview out of a pool of over 20,000. Make that roughly 4% of the early applicants, who–by the very fact they bothered to apply before the scholarship deadline–would seem a very highly qualified group. 4% means just 4 out of 100 high stat-type applicants. Each year, about 300 are invited to interview for the Trustee, Stamps & Mork. That’s about 1.5% of these early applicants will be asked to interview for the top scholarships, while another 500 or so will be invited for the Presidential. Of those who come to campus for the interview (not all do!–some may have received good news from SCEA schools like Stanford or ED at another school and they are consequently out of the pool), about 200 are actually awarded the Trustee, Mork or Stamps. That’s about 1% or less of the original group of applicants before Dec 1. Of those, we see about 140 or so who end up matriculating to USC. Again, these are rough numbers to give an idea of how selective the process is.
Is anyone here who applied to USC eligible for tuition exchange?
Were the packages being sent as First-Class or as Priority Mail?
Wait, I’m confused. So people who have or will receive a Trustee’s scholarship interview invitation had an update in their YouSC page?
Hello everyone, I just got my big red packet in the mail; I’m so excited! However, I was wondering if scholarship information is sent home with the packet. If I don’t have any scholarship information in my packet, does that mean I’m not being considered for the Presidential or Trustee Scholarship?
@Murmurs Based on this thread and last year’s thread, I think it means you got a Dean’s scholarship (1/4 tuition), and there’s no interview for that! Congratulations!!
Yes scholarship information is sent, except Deans scholarship which is sent later.
You probably got Deans @Murmurs
I dont think anyone has seen an update in the portal yet
If I submited my Fall term grades, and my counselor submitted my Mid-Year report, do I still have to mail USC a copy of my report card? I haven’t been asked for it, so I was wondering,
Have any of the accepted peoples’ portals changed to reflect admission?
Wait, how many kids receive Dean’s scholarships
@Murmurs what are your stats??
@Fireball99 Under “check your application status”, my portal hasn’t changed yet.
What do you have to do normally to get accepted for the merit scholarship?
@Fireball99 I have a 2400 SAT and a 3.9 GPA.
Did anyone have an update on myUSPS that was accepted?