Hello,
I am applying to USC this year and I am planning to get my application in by December 1st to be considered for merit-based scholarships. So I was reviewing the requirements and I was under the mistaken impression that they wanted a “letter of recommendation”,(I talked to the a representative from admissions at the time) so I asked two teachers of mine to write me one and they said they’d do it. Last week, I was reviewing the common app page of USC and it says that it wants 1 counselor letter of rec, and 0 teacher letters of recommendation. Unfortunately, my counselor told me that they can’t get it in by the december deadline because they are already backed up by other letter of rec. requests. So now I have 2 solid teacher letter’s of rec but no counselor letter of rec to submit for the december deadline, will this problem make them toss it out the window as incomplete? USC is my top choice and I am kinda pissed that every place on the USC admissions website says “a letter of recommendation” or “a letter of rec from a teacher or counselor” so now the common app might screw me over. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thanks!