@jglover I am northern MA I think only one or two from western mass have said they got something
@piksla ahh ok i’m like 30 min from you so i hope this doesn’t rule out an acceptance lmao thank u!!
@minimo7890 Fingers crossed! I hate waiting but I can’t give up hope until I see the rejection letter.
I don’t went to send you guys on a roller coast, but there are 1, 2 and 3 day mail zones in the country. Some of you weren’t due to get it till 3. I know if I send priority to family in central Illinois it is 3 days from CA.
I hope we get some happy surprises early this upcoming AM!
@jglover yup! i just want to get it over so I can make other plans and move on with life
I also think that an essay and extra curricular say much more about a person’s character and intelligence than a number on a piece of paper. Just my opinion though.
good luck to everyone! I haven’t been able to receive mail as I am out so I will check the portal!
the thing is, a person can cheat in class for their high gpa, and on test days, a kid can test bad because they had an unusual circumstance like they were sick, someone in their family passed away, or they are naturally bad standardized test takers. a test does not institute the real intelligence an individual truly has.
Yeah I think my ECs > Scores >>>>>>>>> GPA (hard school, teachers think Bs are good to the point where I’m in top 10-15% and got more than a handful of Bs in HS)
And the fact that some families pay upwards of $20,000 for sat and act tutoring…
It is about the entire package - a student can have lower scores, but a really interesting story with intriguing life experiences that meld into unbounded potential - and that student can be a lot more interesting to accept than a student that simply spent their life trying to get all A’s and high test scores with the same ECs as everyone else. There is certainly room for those too obviously, but imagine a school where everyone was the same - it would be a monochromatic place where they never saw in color (i.e. Pleasantville).
Well I am going to sleep… I’ll probably wake up around 5 or 6 due to stress and I’ll let y’all know then!!! Fingers crossed and praying!!!
Hey what time will the portal update tomorrow? Still have not revived anything from USC yet
One more time - CHUG!!!
After midnight tonight
@akcvms1 It depends on what time zone you are in. The portals will be updated at midnight PST, which is 3am EST, 2am Central, and so on.
haha I’m gonna go try to get excited about my second choice school and call it a night. Good luck to everyone that hasn’t heard yet and congrats to all the acceptances!!
to cheer everyone up, here’s a joke: “when I’m applying to a math major and get the login math question wrong…”
@YuukiKurosu1999 You are most likely rejected, barring a delivery mixup/accident. Acceptance boxes are sent by priority mail, and rejection letters are sent by regular mail. I received nothing on Friday and got my rejection letter in the mailbox today.
@mike8888 LOL I’ve disappointed myself several times when I blanked out on the math problem
We are clearly feeling the sting of my daughter’s now projected rejection as well in my family. Personally, this is likely the most disappointed and let down that I have felt since being diagnosed with cancer back in 2009. So that should put it into perspective.
During a process when 3K+ kids who score in the 99th percentile on the SAT or ACT are rejected or when 9K+ legacy kids are rejected, etc., etc. - it is hard to feel that my daughter has been singled out for rejection though.
I personally put more stock into GPA than anything else… as it is the closest indicator of a projected GPA going forward. My older daughter is a junior at USC now and is set to graduate with honors. My younger daughter took the same course load in high school and did better. That alone should tell USC all that they need to know about projected performance. But that is not really what they are looking at exclusively. 75% of the 56K applicants could likely perform well enough at USC and probably 10-20K of them would be projected to graduate with honors at any elite college.
But what USC is striving to create is a well-rounded freshman class… comprised of applicants from every state, scores of countries and from every demographic background possible. If you are Asian or Asian-American or a white female, unfortunately those are the groups that are currently way over-represented among the applicant pool… so - as a result - far too many of those qualified applicants have to be discarded. And so on and so on… as they have to narrow the pool down from 56K to 9K.
Is it a fair process? Of course not. Are they clearly picking the best or most qualified 9K…? of course not. But neither is Stanford, Yale, etc. Are the 9K being selected qualified though… of course - well most are… as some are recruited athletes where certain exceptions are made, etc. But so are probably another 10-20K of the 47K being rejected. USC could easily justify admitting likely half of all applicants.
All that being said… what bothers me personally most is that 66% of the 9K or so being accepted are now projected to in turn reject USC. They seem to care little about that low 34% yield rate. My daughter, like many of you on this thread, would have certainly enrolled if admitted. It is the overlap of acceptances to too many elite schools and USC’s failure to truly seek out and identify those most committed to USC above all other schools that troubles me.
In the end, they will have a diverse and well-rounded class of 3K or so regardless… but 6K of those being accepted this week are going elsewhere. And many dreams are being shattered in that process… my daughter’s included.
So yes… we too feel your pain… and the pain of thousands like us.