Yes that is what I said enrolled. Sorry didn’t mean to confuse everyone with the acceptance rate.
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Easy mix up! And we are all excited to get excited around here so off we go!
Dornsife typically carries the overall acceptance rate cause of it’s size, but some majors within are more or less.
SCA wins for most challenging at 2-4%
Engineering usually 2 points lower than overall so likely 8% ish this year
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How would it work for primary + secondario majors?
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What is Marshall generally like? any guesses or estimates
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It’s really about your overall application, not which major is more competitive. If the app seems well suited to a certain major, that will be the one. If not to either, but they like it overall, you can even come in undecided. And that’s all good cause you move into what you want when you get there!
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Twins2023: “For the enrolled class of 2026, Viterbi was 14% and Marshall was 17% but Annenberg was only 5%. Annenberg will definitely be the hardest”
Those are not acceptance rates. Those are academic program distributions. i.e. Dornsife has the most students on campus. Only 5% of the USC students belong to Annenberg. Without knowing how many apply to Marshall/Viterbi/Annenberg, we cannot say one is harder to get in than the other.
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But there are also statements about majors being more or less ocmpetitive within the school
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Marshall is competitive, typically falling between engineering and overall. Slightly less than overall is what I heard over the years.
The place the figures come out is at admitted students talks like Explore USC and the merit welcomes, and some counselor sessions, so usually later on. They aren’t too wild about publicly posting each school’s rate. Some of the college sites are just guessing at them.
Definitely, some majors more competitive, but it also depends on how many are applying to a major that year. Foreign language would not seem as competitive as say International Studies, but the French department, for example, is very small. So how many and quality of applicants can determine how competitive a major is. The acceptance rate of majors can vary greatly within Dornsife. But together, they average out to the overall rate.
So my kids go to school with a couple of the Dornsife’s grandchildren. Told them to buy them lunch tomorrow 
(joking of course!)
But a large portion of the Dornsife family lives in my town. Feeling like people are going to start going out of there way to try and get a good word put in for them.
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Does anyone know which majors within Viterbi are the most competitive?
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Computer Science. And an amazing program too. 
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Gotcha, would enviro studies always be classified as competitive.
I really wanna go to USc bc of its labs which only that school has, in addition to UChicago which I ED2’ed
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Frankly when a school’s acceptance rate is hovering around 10%, ya, pretty much every major is competitive. But yes, those two majors have become increasingly popular is last 5-7 years, so no reason to think they aren’t competitive. They love interdisciplinary profiles if they are tied together well on the app. One of mine came in that way - combining two majors into one kinda sorta. Sounds like it could be a great fit for you and give you the flex to design your education the way you want, hope it works out, good luck!
Ah interesting. We’ll see on the 20th I guess! Premeditating my results got me rejected from Penn ED, so I shouldn’t do that for USC too
What will be will be. You will find your way on the path made for you this spring regardless of where it is. USC is great, but there are a lot of amazing schools. But the secret is… it’s a student’s job to make their school the great school experience and education that it can be. Fingers crossed for you. And not crossed here: 
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Do you think USC going to want LOCI? with 38K deferrals that is going to a ridiculous amount of LOCI which will just burden them even more on top of the 40K RD to still look at.
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The Poets&Quants ranking of undergraduate business programs linked above gathered some key admission statistics from business schools as one of their three ranking criteria.
Marshall’s acceptance rate was around 10% in 2021. Only a handful of other undergraduate business schools nationally have acceptance rates lower than that. Definitely a competitive program.
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Not formally, but it has been said that sending a quick note to advisor that you would attend if admitted (if true) can be helpful.
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