The UC study also supported the use of standardized tests in addition to GPA. Both the Purdue research and UC research found gpa becoming less predictive in recent years, although only Purdue specifically connected it to grade inflation, which has been more prevalent at affluent schools.
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Or parents demanding for a better grade. My friend is a math teacher in high school- she got a lot of threats from parents - at very affluent school and public schools are number one or two in the country year over year.
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I’m gonna start a new thread about SAT’s so we can let this one go back to being USC thread.
All are invited!
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Ya let’s move in from tests.
Packages will come after portal update. That’s the place to be Friday.
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What will the acceptance rate be for early action on Friday?
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Not again 
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45,000 applied, about 2,000 getting in, about 1,000 of those getting invited to interview for merit. Give or take 200 on those last figures.
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Thank you.
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I’m gonna start this request early and repeat it - if posting accepted (yay!) please include:
School and major
State and/or city or country you are from
Yes or No Merit
Everyone is always interested in that info if you don’t mind!
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With 45,000 applications and only 2,000 getting in… it seems almost all students will be horribly disappointed on Friday – it’s far, far lower than even the low 12%-ish of their normal acceptance rate. I feel terrible for my son who is in such anxious anticipation. The likelihood of acceptance is near 0.
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So USC announced today to professional college counselors the following information:
according to USC
Applications EA 40.6K
will admit 2.4K (this Friday)
Admit rate approx 6%
Will defer remaining 38.2K applicants
Received another 40.4K applications RD
Will admit 5.5K late march from the combined deferred/RD pool of 78.6K
admit rate RD/deferred 6-7%
TOTAL applications 81K (up from 69K in 2022)
total admitted 7.9K (down from 8.3K 2022)
total admit rate 9-10% (down from 12% 2022)
NOTE there will also be spring admits which will increase the total freshman admitted
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Great info! Thanks @Twins2023! So grateful to have this here.
I know there were questions about the source of the 45k, this sounds like the real juice!
So they topped 80K applications, yikes.
Admitting 2.4, a few more than thought, but I suppose the merit #s remain same as years prior, so about 1000-1200 of those 2400, or there about half will get some kind of merit notification.
Interesting that EA didn’t increase the early applications by much if at all compared to previous years. Around 40k typically applied by previous years Dec 1 merit deadline.
So while only 6% admit rate, you have 50% chance of merit if admitted. Glass half full.
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That is another way to look at it. See there is always a silver lining in everything. 
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Ya, otherwise it’s pretty abysmal to focus on the 38K+ deferred and ultimately more than 70,000 rejected.
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While 6% looks bad, They are taking around 25% of the freshman class in EA which is reasonable IMO.
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Ok, don’t want to open the can of beans again, but are too many kids throwing their hat in wrong ring because they don’t have to submit you know what? Lot’s of app fees in those numbers and in every over applied to school in the country.
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I think it’s great they are doing more than merit. Cause frankly that was so depressing year after year, because so many think they are going to get it i.e., “I’m #1 in my high school so I’m certain to get merit.” Too heartbreaking. At least non-merit have some skin in the game this time too.
I agree, I love they are letting more in. I will take that 6% anyday!
I always thought they were losing strong students that went ahead and committed to the school that showed them love first through EA or ED.
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Holy crap, total application’s and acceptance rate stats are insane. Thanks for sharing!
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And 9-10% is overall. Engineering and some others will be less than that. I don’t think people understand how small engineering enrollment is. 450ish students is not that many to accept each year and distributed across majors makes it a very select group.
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So USC’s website is posting that merit notifications will not come out on Friday but by mid February.
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