<p>I know this is ‘stats’ only, but this is related to my stats.</p>
<p>My original post is #50 in this thread, and I made a typo with my SAT combined score, it is 2240 and not 2340. Curse the 2 and 3 being next to each other on the keyboard!</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/01 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/30 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Dornsife - Biology</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 33 (35E, 33R, 33S, 31M)
[</em>] GPA-UW: 3.7
[<em>] Rank: DNR
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Calc AB (4), Lit (4, class not taken), Chemistry (3), Macro (In Progress), Stat (IP), Biology (IP)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good, I’d say. Wrote about dying my hair green for a week
[</em>] Teacher Recs: No clue, I’m sure they were good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Same as teacher recs
[</em>] EC highlights: Hospital volunteer for 3 years, Worked with mentally challenged kids as part of a sports program, Sports editor for school newspaper, Shadowed in the ER, Guitar player in a band for 3 years, other miscellaneous stuff [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: MO
[</em>] School Type: Independent, private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Pakistani
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: NMF</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Super excited about this opportunity; made a reality because of the NMF scholarship. Good luck to all!</p>
<p>Date applied: Jan. Date decision postmarked/received: Online Accepted at which school/major at USC: Dorsife Letters, Sciences & Arts (Biochemistry)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1910 (M: 610, CR: 610, WR: 190)
[</em>] ACT: X
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Horrible–didn’t submit
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 92% (no 4.0 scale)
[<em>] Rank: no rank
[</em>]AP/IB classes: HL (Chem, Bio, English) & SL (Math, History, French B)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Commonapp about immigrating as refugee to US from S. Sudan, mom’s sacrifices, my ambitions & Supplement about wanting to major in sciences & what I hope to achieve at USC
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Waived - But I think they were good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Waived - no clue
[</em>] EC highlights: Dorm Prefect, MUN head, V Soccer Captain, V Indoor Soccer Captain, Hospital volunteer for two summers, Red Cross, International club, Student Gov, work in African World AIDS Day etc. etc [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: MN
[</em>] School Type: Private Boarding (MD)
[<em>] Ethnicity: South Sudanese
[</em>] Gender: F[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: not sure: maybe urm?</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: I honestly don’t know how I got in! This is so exciting. Not sure if I’ll go or consider Carnegie, but we’ll see. Congratulations everyone!</p>
<p>Date applied: Jan. Date decision postmarked/received: Online Accepted at which school/major at USC: Dorsife Letters, Sciences & Arts (Biochemistry)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1910 (M: 610, CR: 610, WR: 190)
[</em>] ACT: X
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Horrible–didn’t submit
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 92% (no 4.0 scale)
[<em>] Rank: no rank
[</em>]AP/IB classes: HL (Chem, Bio, English) & SL (Math, History, French B)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Commonapp about immigrating as refugee to US from S. Sudan, mom’s sacrifices, my ambitions & Supplement about wanting to major in sciences & what I hope to achieve at USC
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Waived - But I think they were good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Waived - no clue
[</em>] EC highlights: Dorm Prefect, MUN head, V Soccer Captain, V Indoor Soccer Captain, Hospital volunteer for two summers, Red Cross, International club, Student Gov, work in African World AIDS Day etc. etc [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: MN
[</em>] School Type: Private Boarding (MD)
[<em>] Ethnicity: South Sudanese
[</em>] Gender: F[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: not sure: maybe urm?</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: I honestly don’t know how I got in! This is so exciting. Not sure if I’ll go or consider Carnegie, but we’ll see. Congratulations everyone!</p>
<p>Date applied: Pretty sure December 1st Date decision postmarked/received: Got in the mail yesterday around noon Accepted at which school/major at USC: Viterbi School of Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: N/A M: N/A, CR: N/A, WR: N/A,
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math 2: 720 U.S. History: 710
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.34/3.79
[<em>] Rank: School doesn’t rank
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Soph & Junior Year: Human Geography (4), U.S. History (5), Calculus BC, AP Literature, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Gov’t, AP Environmental Science (Haven’t taken tests yet)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Very solid
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I know one was top of the line and one was probably just decent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Had somewhat of connection with counselor. Maybe a bit above average?
[</em>] EC highlights: Started non-profit organization (won’t go in detail or I might reveal identity), Work 25 hours a week at restaurant, Community Service/Youth Group outside school[/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Kansas
[</em>] School Type: Large Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Black
[</em>] Gender: M[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: URM, very very passionate ECs</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Pretty excited to see the package come in from mail. I will be visiting USC and Pomona in the next couple weeks when I make California trip… I’m not sure where I am heading yet. Congrats to all who were accepted!</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/1<br>
Date decision postmarked/received: Postmarked 3/27; Received 3/29 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Music Industry program at Thornton</p>
<p>Stats: SAT Total: 2280:M 690 CR 790, W 800
SAT Subject Tests: none
GPA-UW/W: 3.85 UW; 4.52W
Rank: top 7%
AP/IB/DE classes: 8 APs</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: good
Teacher Recs: really good
Counselor Rec: Really good
EC highlights: NHS, SNHS, lots of volunteering, missions trips, director of acappella group, two jobs, music industry internship, crew team</p>
<p>School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Hook?: I’m not sure… Maybe internship?</p>
<p>Date applied: Nov 21 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/27 recieved 3/30 in Florida Accepted at which school/major at USC: Annenberg Broadcast Digital Journalism</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2170 M: 720, CR: 660, WR: 790,
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: all 4’s and 5’s
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.97/4.46
[<em>] Rank: 15/800
[</em>]AP/IB classes:11 total
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:strong
[</em>] Teacher Recs: excellent!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t see but probably very good
[</em>] EC highlights: class treasurer, NHS, EHS, writer school newspaper competitive dancer 8 years many awards and accolades both talent and academic, 2012 winner of NCTE award, taught dance at boys and girls club [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Florida
[</em>] School Type:competitive public, one of top in Florida
[<em>] Ethnicity: white hispanic jewish
[</em>] Gender: F [/ul]Other Factors, hook?: main hooks would be dedication to dance and National writing award</p>
<p>**General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?:**So excited, last school I was waiting to hear from. Leaning towards dual degree program majoring in both dance and communications at UMich though.</p>
<p>Date applied: December 1 Date decision postmarked/received: Received March 30 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Applied to Annenberg for print journalism</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1980 M: 610, CR: 690, WR: 680,
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: USH 570 Lit 550
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.6/4.2
[<em>] Rank: not given
[</em>]AP/IB classes: took 4 APs, English Language (4)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: excellent
[</em>] EC highlights: classically trained in ballet, over 25 hours a week spent at dance Location/Person:[list][<em>] State or Country: MA
[</em>] School Type: catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: interview went extremely well</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: bad SATs and didn’t visit…congrats to those accepted</p>
<p>Date applied: January 10th Date decision postmarked/received: March 31st Accepted at which school/major at USC: Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2020 M: 710, CR: 650, WR: 660,
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: 790 Chinese with listening, 630 literature
[<em>] GPA-W: 3.66
[</em>]AP/IB classes: IB diploma candidate
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Talked about how much I wanted to go to Annenbeg
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Really good. Sent three recs, two from my journalism teachers and one from my psychology teacher. All were very strong (didn’t read them but I am confident)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Not sure if it was good or not
[</em>] EC highlights: varsity golf captain, activities coordinator of student government, president of amnesty international club, online editor of school newspaper [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Taipei
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: female [/ul]Other Factors, hook?: had a group interview at my school. went very well</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: I seriously thought I would get rejected because of my gpa. But am happy and glad to have been admitted! Best of luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>Date applied: 11/30 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/27 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Viterbi School of Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1960
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 770/680 Math II Physics
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.7/4.0
[<em>] Rank: 7
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 4,4,4,4,4 Physics, Calc AB, English, Euro, US History
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: They are ok
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Dont know I think ok though
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably Great
[</em>] EC highlights: X[/ul] $10,000 Charity event. President of 3 clubs. Varsity water polo and swim Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: M[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Legacy</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Would like to go to USC, but it depends on money.</p>
<p>Date applied: January 9th Date decision postmarked/received: March 28th Accepted at which school/major at USC: School of Architecture</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2050 M: 700, CR: 680, WR: 670,
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: None
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.7/3.9
[<em>] Rank: Top 10%
[</em>]AP/IB classes: AP Euro (3), AP Environmental Science (4), AP English Lang/Comp (4), AP US History</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty standard. I don’t know. In my supplement I wrote about how I was really passionate about wanting to go into architecture.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Got 3 recs. Read one, and it sounded pretty good. One of my recommenders went to USC, don’t know if that had any impact on their decision.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Average I suppose.
[</em>] EC highlights: Did debate team for a little while, member of NHS junior year, did CSF on and off throughout high school, about 70 hours of community service[/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Inland Southern California
[</em>] School Type: public high school, about 2000 students
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican-American)
[</em>] Gender: Male[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: My architecture portfolio. I included 18 works, using various media and such. I guess they must’ve really liked it :D</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: I was also accepted to UCI and UCSD, but architecture is what I really want to do, so I’m probably gonna end up going to USC.</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/1 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/30 Rejected at which school/major at USC: Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: NA
[</em>] ACT: 32, 34 superscored
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: MathII: 750, Chem: 710
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.6ish/4.15
[<em>] Rank: NA
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Chem (4) Psychology (5) Computer Science (3) Human Geography (4) Language (4)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Engineering specific ones were good, Why USC ehh
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Eh
[</em>] EC highlights: BPA State 3x, Nationals 1x, Model UN awards, Cricket at Interstate level[/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: IL
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[</em>] Gender: M [/ul]Other Factors, hook?: </p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Well this sucks, I really wish I was an ethnic minority because affirmative action sucks. It’s all good though, UofI engineering for me.</p>
<p>Date applied: Nov 30 Date decision postmarked/received: March 30 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Viterbi School of Engineering for Computer Science</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total:
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests:
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.79/4.47
[<em>] Rank: 11/490
[</em>]AP/IB classes:
-Senior Classes: IB English HL; IB History of the Americas SL; IB Art HL; IB Physics HL, IB Math SL; Tok; IB Spanish SL
-Taking AP Physics B and AP Calc AB exams in May
-Tests taken: IB Computer Science SL (4); AP English Lang (4)</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I really liked my common app essay, but my supplements were not that amazing
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Pretty good I think; My teachers really like me.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great; We have an IB guidance counselor that knows each of us pretty well.
[</em>] EC highlights: Habitat for Humanity, NHS, Spanish National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society secretary, IB club secretary, Job as a cashier, did research at university during a summer program[/ul]</p>
<p>Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: Florida
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: first in family to go to college, Female in computer science</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: I’m really excited and definitely going!</p>
<p>Date applied: Date decision received: 3/30 Accepted at which school/major at USC: X</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2130
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] GPA-W: 4.7
[</em>] Rank: X
[li]AP/IB classes: X</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] EC highlights: Multiple Honor societies, Letters in 3 varsity sports, Member of 2 state championship v-ball teams, School record holder in High Jump, Model UN and Youth Legislature officer, Co-founded youth citizenship group</p>[/li]
<p>Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: X
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: W
[</em>] Gender: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: X</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Absolutely stunned by the rejection especially in light of D’s scores compared to other kids accepted. Really a head scratcher.</p>
<p>Date applied: Before Dec. 1 Date decision postmarked/received: 3/30/12 Accepted at which school/major at USC: Dornsife (probably econ major)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2180 M: 670, CR: 710, WR: 800,
[</em>] ACT: N/a
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: N/a
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.3
[<em>] Rank: 2/19
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 4 in Eng Comp. That’s it.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Horrid
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Average
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Glowing
[</em>] EC highlights: Varsity soccer/bball. Started own online business and website. Key Club Treasurer. School Counselor. [/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: MD
[</em>] School Type: Tiny Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Unweighted GPA, EC’s, and Counselor rec really guided me in. Class rank (11%) and SAT math scared me. </p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Looking at this stats thread, maybe I shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was to get in. But I was elated upon receiving the thick packet. I’m going to USC or Emory. It’s down to those two. Financial Aid and my visit to LA next month will likely have a huge impact on my decision. Now the hardest part starts >.<</p>
<p>Date applied:Before December 1st
Date decision postmarked/received:Friday March 29th
**Accepted at which school/major at USC:Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Science </p>
<p>]Stats:
SAT Total: 640 M:640, W: 730, R: 600
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Egnlish:680, US history 700
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.4/3.8
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>]AP/IB classes: AP English 3, AP English 4, AP Government, AP Econn, AP US history, AP European History. (No grade below a 3 on my AP tests I took).
]Subjective
[</em>] Essays: Really good, spent about a month on them
[<em>] Teacher Recs: idk
[</em>] Counselor Rec: idk, he is not all that intelligent
EC highlights: Went to Africa to build schools for teenage girls, teen chair of Walk for cancer, Class Representative in Black student union. In feed the children club, hundreds of hours of community service. Tutor for troubled youth.
[ State or Country: Arizona, USA
[<em>] School Type: College prep
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black American
[li] Gender: Male other Factors, hook?:I am a third generation Trojan, being black helped I guess, my essay which I spent A LOTTTTT of time on. </p>[/li]
<p>I GOT INTO USC!!! HELL YA HELL YA HELL YA *<strong><em>IN RIGHT *</em></strong>IN RIGHT ALRIGHT</p>
<p>Date applied: 12/1 Date decision postmarked/received: today Accepted at which school/major at USC: not accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2350 M: 800, CR: 750, WR: 800
[</em>] ACT: X
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: all 800 for Math2, Chem, Phys, US History, 790 for Bio M
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.89/4.4ish (took a lot of AP classes)
[<em>] Rank: N/A
[</em>]AP/IB classes: 11 AP’s, all 5’s: Bio, Phys C (E/M and Mech), Chem, Calc BC, Stats, APUSH, comp sci A (no AB in my year), music theory, language, env sci
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: 0/10 cuz i got rejected?
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 10/10
[<em>] Counselor Rec: 5/10
[</em>] EC highlights: X[/ul] Location/Person:[ul][<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: Siemens Regional Semi, AIME Qualifier, Bio Olympiad Semifinalist, Phys Team Semifinalist, national merit semi, others</p>
<p>General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?:
i got berkeley regents and cmu for comp sci but outright rejected here…really confused</p>
<p>Probs due to my low stats 1860 SATs, 560 maths II (shocking!) 660 physics. but i had a strong extracurricular side. However i am using this as positive reinforcement to just push myself harder, after taking the sats in a decision that gave me a month to prepare i absolutely flunked. I am just wondering do transfer students submit sats score or is their academic side purely based on the grades they receive at uni? and what increases the likeliness of being admitted as a transfer student?</p>
<p>I also decided to send an email as a personal thank you to the admission office, i am sure that this will probably be ignored due to the busy time of year for them but i felt i needed to express my gratitude to them. anyways for now I will be a fellow dragon at Drexel Uni studying a physics major</p>
<p>Dear Kirk Brennan,</p>
<p>I am sure your inbox is packed with emails at this crucial time of admission selection, however I would like to personally thank you for allowing me the opportunity of applying to USC as well as reviewing my application fairly. I am not appealing for entry this year due to my annoyingly low stats however you will sure be getting a transfer application from me as I have an unfortunate inability to settle with the misfortunes life throws my way.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!
yours sincerely,
Douglas B</p>
Congratulations everyone!</p>
Best of luck to everyone else!</p>