i was there last year…it is such a fun and exciting time.
@camcam2022 If you read through the original posting on this thread, you will gain the answers to most of your questions…
Basically… merit offering results mailed out yesterday / admission portals will update by Friday
@YLDad1 Congrats! Thanks for sharing everything! Can’t wait to hear what’s inside the package and your daughter’s reaction!
Someone else please post that they got the box.
@SCMHAALUM Thanks. Getting a bit nervous here !
@YLDad1 Our sample size is going to be pretty small. I didn’t go through previous years but being that it’s so selective not sure how many will be on CC.
If anyone who gets a package is able to do it with USPS tracking, please share!
Last year first post was 12:34, the second box was an hour later - a lot of people at school or work, mail doesn’t come till later, etc.When they start rolling I am curious if anyone saw anything from USC on Informed Delivery Digest. I understand the sender has to “enable” it to show up there so it won’t. But I could certainly be wrong, it’s a new and evolving service. However, no one has mentioned that so it makes me wonder and think it won’t show up there.
@sandiegodad2017 I think you are right. We may have to wait till later in the evening for more posts to show up.
just wanted to recap the merit scholarship process. Please correct.
- If you receive the white envelop today from USC, you are accepted and guaranteed for 1/4 tuition fee
- For anything above 1/4, check the letter if you are invited, and you need to go through a 30-minutes interview. Is it local or you need to go to school onsite? when the finalist will be announced?
It may seem a small sample size, but kids to tend to show up on here when they get a package because it is a good source to find out what’s next and what is important to do first. The second day when Norcal and a lot of the country get it is a crazy posting day, also filled with people worried they aren’t getting it. We’ll see, open all night! 
@Laketahoe79 that is NOT entirely true. My D got the merit box and had an interview for the Trustee (full tuition). She did the overnight and interview. She ended up with about $4,000 a year - NOT even 1/4 tuition. So you are NOT GUARANTEED 1/4 tuition.
Our daughter just opened the box !
She is a finalist for the full-tuition scholarship !
She is so excited , jumping up and down.
Good to see hard work rewarded.
We will always remember this day as a family.
Anyone from San Diego hear anything? I heard it it is supposed to take 2 days to deliver to San Diego, and I didn’t see anything today so I’m wondering if they haven’t arrived or if I have to face the truth?
@YLDad1 congrats! Hard work pays off!
@YLDad1 which one does it state on the bottom of the brochure that she got? This happened to my D last year…got the interview for the Trustee
Just a little levity. My Apple Watch has reminded me to breathe several times this afternoon as I have been reading this thread. Coincidence. My guess is no!
It is a box, you are accepted. No scholarship is guaranteed except…if you get the package with no mention of a scholarship, that is the Deans 1/4 which you do not interview for so there is no opportunity for it to be decreased.
For those interviewing most people get what they interview for. However, a teeny few are bumped up, some can be bumped down. Further down that I knew - below a Dean’s. But not too often.
You need to go to USC to interview if asked. Whether you get scholarship comes out midish March.
@yldad1 congrats to your daughter!!! do you guys live in LA
What city are you in?