USC class of 2023 Applicants Thread

@collegemom111111 Yes!

I finally got in and signed up. I got in through Microsoft and not Chrome, but was trying both for over an hour. Click on ā€œapplicationā€ on the top left when you get in and have credit card ready. Thanks for the encouragement from those that had made it through before me! I guess this is what Fight On is all about!

@collegemom111111 yes!! I thought it was a sign that I might get in. I donā€™t even want to get up to get more coffee!

I tried to call and there was just a recording. No one home! Left a message.

@sonsav Yeah when it got faster I thought maybe Iā€™d get in, but nah. Iā€™ve been refreshing literally thousands of times for the last 90 minutes.

Close your browser and re open.

@Rickarinate I told my son to have his credit card ready when refreshing, he said heā€™d memorized his credit card number ?

I donā€™t know how much longer I can do this.

So Iā€™m done after payment? After payment, I get to application status page and it says ā€œappliedā€ then ā€œnot complete.ā€ I canā€™t get to the pages that say 9. confirmation payment 10. Contract and finish or 11. Renterā€™s insurance. Can anyone confirm that comes later?

I finally got in!

@filmmomtv I am pretty sure after you pay you are done. Look at the message inbox at the top. One of the messages says payment received and points out that it will still be considered incomplete until a room is assigned. But Iā€™m pretty sure once you have the message saying payment received thatā€™s your coveted ā€œtime stampā€.

In!!!

If Iā€™m a Presidential that wants to live in Mcarthy, is it important that I do housing as soon as possible? Or will the time stamp not really matter for me, since there arenā€™t that many scholarship kids? Iā€™m not sure if Iā€™ll commit to the school (due to the high price) and would prefer not to spend the $55 unless itā€™s likely that Iā€™d miss out on Mcarthy if I donā€™t sign up soon
Thanks!

Congratulations to those that got their time stamp! You have now completed the worst part of getting your student set up at USC. Next year, they will be assigned a lottery time and it is up to them to go in and choose their housing, you are done with it! You/they will sign up for orientation, but it is easy demand wise, nothing like this.

Surprisingly after this, you will find the online systems and web management fantastic and easy to navigate going forward. They will do class registration at orientation and will master it in minutes and that is always their job. So breathe a sigh of relief, the hard part is done, except of course, for paying for it.

Was my Dā€™s screen name supposed to be her real name? I just made up something and at the end she had 3 kids that were recommended. I could see their real names.

OMG ā€“ STILL NOT IN!!! I really do have things to do!!!

@sonsav I also made up some weird screen name for my D and now I think she canā€™t change it anymore:(

So I just submitted my payment, and I think I got my time stamp (?). I was wondering if I also had to complete the latter half of the application as soon as possible, or could I put that off till later.

@gonebythewind yepā€¦ Canā€™t go to that tab anymore. This should have be available on a weekend so she could have done this all herself. Iā€™m sure my D wonā€™t be pleased with the name I came up with! ?

@sonsav at least we didā€™t have to pick a roommate for them?