Here is some news…
This is my eighth year volunteering on this board as an alumna of SC. I was able to contact an administrator friend who said I could post this information: (The person is not on the admissions committee)
Admission packets will be mailed Wednesday as planned. Decisions can be found online on Friday. The big news is nearly 54,000 seniors applied for the freshmen class. That number does not include students who applied to transfer.
@choirandstages a jersey, pop pops where the handle says “fight on”, a Traveler pillow pet, and a foam finger. The Trojan pride is real, and I haven’t even been accepted.
@erd2020 UCLA for sure. It is a state school so it gives huge preference to local kids. I along with eight other kids got in my class were accepted this past weekend. A girl got into their nursing program that has a two-percent acceptance rate, and she never broke 1800 on her SAT. So yeah, in-state at UCLA gets huge preference over everyone else.
@erd2020 I would say UCLA. USC has a more holistic approach, and I’m assuming they’re more likely to accept out-of-state applications.
hi! I’m hoping to be accepted to USC for dramatic arts but was wondering if any could answer my question. After my audition, the woman asked me if I applied to other schools? I said no and she didn’t ask me in like a mocking or harsh tone so is this a good sign? Also the woman i interviewed with emailed me afterward and thanked me for a great audition and said it was great to meet. What does this mean?
@Zburg45 @QrtyUiop - thanks guys, that actually makes me feel a lot better! I’m from Illinois, and I got rejected from UCLA, so I’m really hoping for USC.
@erd2020 i also got rejected lol
@outlawsrcool it sucks, right? I really want to go to California for school, but I got rejected from UCLA and highly doubt I have a shot at Berkeley, so USC is essentially my last chance…
@erd2020 Right there with you! Hoping I’ll pull through with USC, but it’s not the end of the world.
@erd2020 its awful. USC is my first choice school and even though i got into UCSD, but I’d like to attend USC
@QrtyUiop That’s a good attitude to have - I’m trying to have a similar mindset! What did you apply under?
@erd2020 English major. You?
Does USC offer financial aid more in grants or loans?
@QrtyUiop Computational neuroscience. I hope for the best for you!!
Correction to my post at 9:03…It should have read “Decisions can be found online on March 26th.”
Please pardon the error.
@stehyh i used the net price calculator and it appears the majority of the aid come from university grants (for my financial situation)
My sister went to USC undergrad and is now in her junior year of med school there. As I type this, a USC flag, pendant, banner with every football national championship on it, and a stop sign that says “STOP- TROJAN COUNTRY” all hang on the wall behind my head. If I look up from the computer, I see a USC nutcracker (like the ones at Chritmas), a signed USC football, and countless hats, shirts, and jackets that my parents have bought me over the years while my sister has been in school there. The walls of my room are even painted USC gold with things painted red to complete the color scheme. If I don’t get in, not only have a disappointed my entire family since it has been the expectation of me to go there since 5th grade (I still remember my sister’s freshman year at family weekend when just her and I were walking through her dorm hallway and some drunk kid grabbed me telling me how I must go there and my sister said “of course he will”), but I’ll probably have to light my room on fire and everything in it. And even as I type this I have just heard my mom talking to my dad downstairs saying “yeah, I heard the applicant pool is huge this year, and even tougher for Marshall, he might not get in” and my dad going “awh shit” 
Got rejected from UCLA & UCSD. If I don’t get into USC then I’m headed to San Diego State next fall. Honestly not expecting much but I LOVE waiting until the final countdown
@outlawsrcool It sounds like you had great interactions and that’s definitely a good thing! My D auditioned for Thornton and received hand written thank you notes from two of the faculty members afterwards. I wanted to know the same thing as you --“what does it meeeean?” So I did some searching and found out it’s kind of a “thing” encouraged from the top-down at USC to do personalized follow-ups like this–kind of an old-fashioned aesthetic. So at that point I decided not to count on it meaning much of anything as to her chances for acceptance. But still, some small part of me thinks…c’mon, you wouldn’t do all that and then reject her, would you?! lol
@majesticmarmarr it sounds like you’re all equipped and ready to go–USC is pretty much obligated to accept you now! 