USC class of 2023 Applicants Thread

@CADREAMIN gotcha, just got home and waiting for mail. Fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed for you @burrowsc! Oh I remember those days
Can you believe on one of our big school acceptances (not USC, but still big deal), the day it was suppose to arrive we got the neighbors mail instead of ours. Ahhhhhh! I was driving like 80mph down a two lane road like a crazy woman to chase after the mailman, which was so silly considering he stops all the time to drop off mail.

I’ve been through USC four times and it was always the most stressful.

Agree. There’s no certainty or finality when you don’t get a package until you see it on the portal. It is absolute torture for those waiting. There has to be another way when the whole admissions process is already so stressful.

And for a little trivia - before this not that many years ago, there wasn’t a portal update - so if you didn’t get a package, you waited to get a physical “no scholarship” letter or rejection letter in March. So kids/parents literally hung by their mailbox for a week+ hoping their package was just lost, until that letter came (which at that time was mailed well after the packages). I had an athlete first who knew a year ahead he was attending USC, but watched a friend’s daughter go through a week of utter agony. Tooo painful. They should of mailed the “no” letters at the same time, but I guess they were only concerned with who they accepted. Cruel and unusual punishment. They are better about that now.

So if I don’t get a package today and I’m close to usc, does that mean I’m not getting a scholarship?

@compSciLover Based on potential mail delays I wouldn’t use today as a cutoff especially with how few have posted that they received the box.

I just checked my USPS daily digest. Said there was nothing under packages, but it also said that there was a piece of mail that they didn’t have an image for. Unfortunately, I think that means I’ll be receiving the deferral letter later today


I hope everyone gets their packages soon! I got mine yesterday and I am a Trustees finalist so I am very excited! Hope everyone’s goes well. If you have any questions about the package itself let me know

where do you live? what area?

WAit I have a price of mail for which they don’t have an image. Does this mean anything?

I just set up mail tracking, does it take some time for information to show up there, or I will see today’s mail information there? Currently it shows 0 mail pieces.

@kerlykerls Please post your:
Location and which USC School/Major

@barbpz & @BeCheap4me2 I am in Los Angeles, the Hancock park area and Dornsife/East Asian Studies

@kerlykerls did you see anything in your usps tracking ? Did it show up as “we don’t have an image”

I’m in NY and didn’t receive a package today in my mail, but I see a package without an image on usps tracking that arrived today at the distribution center. Could this be it? I thought USC disables tracking so I’m not too sure

@Jtuell8 @jnagra @Apple349 I also checked USPS Informed Delivery everyday this week. It said nothing, no packages, but we received “white box” in mailbox yesterday. I don’t think this “white box” will appear on Informed Delivery page.

@ykim525 Are in LA area?

It will not be on USPS.

@barbpz orange County (Brea, CA 92823)

Any acceptance packages will not show up on the daily digest of USPS informed delivery. Any mail that currently does not have an image is typically a flat, a larger piece of mail than an envelope (but not a package), or a stray letter.