Wish I could choose like AND helpful for your posts @WWWard!
^^^ Thanks!
Question/odds forecast, from a longtime lurker whose child would be mortified to know that, or that I posted anything: Child admitted in late Jan, went for interview for Presidential. Was asked one question, and answered it, apparently well. Interviewer said “You are want we want, I’m reco’ing you for a bump to Trustee” and wrote it on the form. Any prognostication on whether that means Trustee is going to happen? Odds on Presidential as a floor?
Uh ya, if it happened like that, I would take that bet on getting Trustees and not be worried about the floor!
OK, thanks…It’s so confusing…same kid was outright rejected by UCLA Friday. I don’t even know what to think…USC was far and away the first choice anyway, so while the UCLA rejection was a bit of a shock, it wasn’t traumatic
@WWWard how is it that they’d reject 90% of all legacy applicants yet legacies make up 20% of each freshman class?
What is the acceptance rate for spring admissions? How many of those decisions do they give out?
@FutureUSCdad No question - it is a confusing process with results all over the place. There are some rejected by USC every year but get into an Ivy, so the UCLA thing isn’t surprising either. That happens a lot - just sooo many high stat kids applying. I like a holistic view because I feel like there is some degree of fit taken into consideration which is good for the student, rather than relying strongly on stats, but either way, it is unpredictable. btw, congrats and welcome to the Trojan Family!
THX, excited to be joining! Child is actually at the median, or even a slight cut below in terms of quantitative metrics like GPA/ACT. But stellar essays, lots of EC and community involvement, attended USC summer session and aced it, great reco from professor filed with application—all the qualitative stuff WWWard talks about above.
I know chancing is hard to do and annoying to see all over this page but I would appreciate if someone could give me some idea of where I stand:
32 ACT
4.55 gpa
8 APs
80 hours of volunteer work/community service
4 seasons of varsity track
I applied to Annenberg for Journalism 
No one can give you an idea where you stand. The stats on in the range, but we don’t see your essay or the many many other parts of the app, or know how you compare to the other 65,000 that applied, or what puzzle pieces they need to form a picture of a class that they want. Most importantly we aren’t admissions. Chancing is generally a waste of time, but particularly in the holistic admissions of USC. Check out what @WWWard says in the post above.
Just keep busy the next couple days and good luck!
Probably will get no response, but anyone else here apply to thornton pop music program??
@coletonpantley - it is possible.
If there are a total of 1000 students enrolled in the freshman class, 200 of them happen to be legacy category.
Imagine 3000 legacy students applied, and 90% (2700) were rejected, and 300 were offered admission … of which only 200 actually paid the deposit and enrolled. I may be oversimplifying, but hope that makes sense.
@caleegalee - I too am hoping putting them as the choice school on NMSQT may help, since those schools get notified about it by March 1, reinforcing to admissions that USC is indeed their first choice. Whether it does have any impact, I have no idea. I do understand NMSQT students have until May 1st to change the school choice.
@oregonkiddo My son is applying Thornton but not in pop music. He’s applying for Viola Performance.
Does anyone know if the USC packages are delivered on Saturdays or just weekdays? Thanks.
They are delivered the same days you get mail delivery. So yes, Saturdays, unless of course you don’t get mail on Saturdays.
@oregonkiddo my son applied for pop music on guitar. Going nuts here!
I feel you, the wait has been painful as I assess every single little error I made in the audition. Overall it felt good though! I applied as a songwriter. @astute12 how does your son feel it went?
He said he had never been so nervous in his life, but he thought it went well. He did a summer guitar seminar at SC and he knew two of the auditors in the room, but it is such a competitive program so who knows! For songwriting, did they have you perform your work? How did you think your audition went?