Just checked the portal and I GOT IN!!!
I applied to Neuroscience at Dornsife, Pre-Med. I’m from Dallas, Texas and have not received my package yet. My stats are SAT 1530 and GPA 3.96. I’m still waiting on Vanderbilt, some Ivies, and Stanford, and I got rejected by MIT (as a recruited athlete!) and waitlisted by WashU, Emory, and Rice. Clearly, my college decisions are all over the place so don’t get discouraged if you didn’t hear good news this time around! Congrats to everyone else who got in! Fight on!
Has anyone received merit with their acceptance? I know there are 1/4 tuition Dean’s scholarships still to be awarded
Just checked the web portal - my son was accepted for Biomedical Engineering. We live in Austin and did not get the white box yet.
SAT : 1540. (800m, 740rw)
ACT : 35 (35,35,32,36)
SAT Mat II - 790
SAT Physics : 710
So happy for my son. Already accepted into WashU, UT, Texas A&M and received likely letter from Cornell. Waitlisted at Rice and Georgia Tech. Waiting on Ivies, Stanford and Berkeley.
Congrats to all.
@LASA_Parent
Also same, I just checked and got accepted - from Central Texas and did not receive a package. My stats are on another acceptance thread.
Rejected, stats are on other posts
I think Berkeley just accidentally leaked their acceptances
Hey everybody, just wondering if anyone who did not receive any mail at the time they were supposed actually got in? From reading the last posts, it doesn’t sound like it, so I honestly don’t even want to open the portal anymore. Really bummed, but don’t want to get myself too emotional before work so definitely not checking the portal until after.
Hey!! ACCEPTED!!! So happy!!! :))))) I don’t know how it happened what a miracle.
3.6.-3.8 gpa not totally sure because i transferred schools
34 ACT
accepted to bme :)))
Im on the moon right now!!!
@emmawonz didn’t get any mail until now. I’m from MA but I was still in the one day zone.
Is anyone else’s portal saying pre-applicant?
Accepted!! I opened the portal fully thinking it was a rejection, I’m in the two-day zone, but I had to leave for vacation yesterday literally less than half an hour before our mail usually comes! I’m actually so surprised and congrats to everyone else who was accepted. 34 ACT, National Hispanic Scholar, great GPA, lots of volunteerism ECS and EIC of school newspaper. Yay!!
Rejected
1330 sat
3.7 uw 4.4w
10 aps
15ish honor classes
A lot of ecs and leadership
Best of luck to the rest of you!
To all the students that got rejected some things about USC to keep it all in perspective.
-USC is the most expensive university in the country.
-USC is one of the unsafest large universities in California. The administration has spent a small fortune in security to lock it down at night. It doesn’t help when you live off campus…
-USC has had repeated problems with their sports programs not conforming to the rules. The alumni want to win at ANY COST and the university has compromised their morals repeatedly to oblige. BAD CHARACTER.
When you read this thread it is clear that USC is much more hyped here. Don’t get caught up in it. Remember, who you are and that what you have in your heart is more important than the school you attend. If you got accepted to a UC thank your lucky stars. It will cost you less than USC and you will be safer on a UC campus.
For future reference for the class of 2023 (and anyone who has not checked the portal yet), I live in the 2-day zone (NC) and when I didn’t get anything from USC yesterday I was almost certain I got rejected. However, I checked the portal early this morning and was admitted for Fall 2018 for my first choice major!!!
@rohael how so?
Thanks and I of course will not lose faith. With 8K more applicants this year vs last year, I guess that it was to be potentially expected. All 64K applicants to USC cannot be equivalent in terms of their preparedness, temperament and maturity 
I just thought it best to leave the thread for a bit.
It does remind me though of one significant suggestion for future applicants…
Please just keep in mind that colleges and universities are not limited in terms of how and what they review about you to just what you submit to them. Sometimes, they do speak directly with officials at your high school. And they may very well attempt to search for you specifically online.
Back in 2014, I entered my older daughter’s name and our city in an online search and found a social networking profile of someone with the exact same name and town that would have been very disqualifying had a college or university done the same search and mistakenly presumed it was my daughter’s profile. I am not saying that it contributed to the # of unexpected rejections from colleges she seem well suited for, but who knows… it may very well have been a factor.
So just keep in mind that you may want to perform such a search on yourself first – and if warranted, clean up the online posts linked to you. Just a thought…
Congrats to all those who found out they were admitted in my absence…
Thanks for the response! So, just to be clear, you were supposed to receive your mail on Friday, never did, but found out you were accepted on the portal? That’s awesome!
above comment is directed to HappyPiano
@notmonicaaa Financial aid office sent emails congratulating accepted applicants with instructions on how to check their aid reward
anyone’s portal not working??
A few days ago, I wrote under the ND thread that there is simply no rhyme or reason to this whole process. Great kids who are at the top of their class (some even first in class), with demonstrated academic, athletic and moral/ethical achievements get denied from comparable or, arguably less comparable, schools than those that have already accepted them. No rhyme or reason.
How do you explain a double digit percentage increase in applicants, resulting in a mid-single digit reduction in acceptances to a school such as USC? Increased volume in international applications? Simplicity of applying to dozens of schools, as provided by the Common App? It all makes no sense.
Here is what I have deduced. If even 60,000 students paid $85 for their application fee, USC brings in $5.1 Million. They are flush in admissions to travel the country, “recruiting” at more schools, and encouraging more students to apply. More do. Thus, increased applications and increased revenue. Vicious cycle benefitting who? USC.
To those of you denied to USC, here’s hoping you have amazing options.