<p>Hi there!</p>
<p>Just wondering what percent of applicants who applied before December 1st are notified about USC's decision come February, March, April. Are only a small percentage of applicants informed in February? And if so, what are the chances of getting some sort of scholarship if you are notified at that time? In short, does anyone have some sort of number/statistics for when students are notified? (: Any info would be great!</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>Applicants are notified in different “waves”, which you seem aware of. If I’m correct, the Presidential/Trustee scholars (and high-stat applicants in general?) are notified by far the earliest, which explains why Birnkrant (by far the most popular dorm from what I can tell) is filled with them. So bottom line, safe to think you’ll know pretty early if you think you’re a strong, scholarship-worthy applicant; middle of the line of you’re a strong, but non-scholarship applicant; and later on otherwise. But keep in mind this is my speculation based on my observations.</p>
<p>Thanks! That cleared things up a little. </p>
<p>However, if you’re notified early on along with other Trustee/Presidential candidates, it does not mean you are guaranteed the scholarship correct? It simply means that you have been admitted but your scholarship status is still pending? So anyone have any idea what percentage of applicants are notified early on compared to the later waves? Would it be like 10% in January, and then 90% in mid-March/April. How many waves are there? LOL sorry for so many questions. Appreciate any additional input.</p>
<p>Between Trustee and Presidential candidates (NOT counting NMF who do not come for an interview) USC invites about 750 or so from the early deadline pool of about 20,000–so that’s about 3.5% of those eligible applicants who get the early admissions decisions (end of Jan, early Feb). Since USC admits around 8500 in total, the rest of the 7750 or so admissions decisions (taken from the total applicant pool of about 36,000 in past years) come out over the next two months.</p>
<p>Use the search function and find the admitted students threads from the past few years to see how this works out with CC students.</p>
<p>Got it! Thanks that makes a lot of sense. Reason I asked this question was because looking through past decision threads, I felt that the self-selective CC pool had a relatively larger percentage of scholarship candidates, therefore did not represent the actual percentage of people selected in the general population (if that makes sense). However, thanks again for the insight! </p>
<p>Also, are results sent out on a weekly basis (maybe every Monday) like some rolling colleges, or would it be completely arbitrary? I know I’m paranoid :P</p>
<p>If anyone else has anything to say please feel free to do so (:</p>
<p>They seem to roll out every two or three weeks in batches which arrive to CC applicants according to how far they live from Los Angeles. However, each year students try to decipher when they will roll out and why some students hear before others. My view after watching a few years of decisions is there seems to be a correlation to the college (Annenberg, School of Theatre, SCA, Viterbi, etc) which might make sense in that each of those colleges has their own admissions procedures. However, there are very often more acceptances that come out for each of colleges as well–so the best advice is to chill, get ready for a long wait, and not read too much into the waves.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>does anyone know if those who are accepted in the first wave (late jan/early feb) are required to send in midyear report? i would think that since you’ve already been accepted, you won’t need to send anything in? or perhaps they would request it when they’re deciding whether to grant you the scholarship or not?
and the same question for the other waves? do you only send in a midyear report if they ask you to (whether for borderline applicants or dean’s scholarship hopefuls)? how likely is it that they would ask?
i’m just worried because i think i’m a top tier applicant (UW 3.8, W 4.75, sat 2310), but i’ll probably end up with a 3.3-6 gpa this semester, probably destroying any chance i may have had at getting in. thanks for any response!</p>