<p>WHAT? Stop. I'm on vacation and this is going to loom :(. Lol</p>
<p>Yep, scholarship letters are definitely out. I just received a letter. I got the presidential scholarship.</p>
<p>Same. Trustee here! Now to hear from the Bacc/MD...</p>
<p>poop. got presidential when i interviewed for trustee. i knew it would happen though...bombed the interview =( oh well, presidential still is pretty good</p>
<p>congrats to everyone! now we're only waiting for bacc/md</p>
<p>Something to consider: If a student gets a scholarship for half tuition off, and no other financial aid ...the bill is still around $32,000/ year!
And if you are OOS you need to add cost of transportation /going home for vacation etc.
Better than $50K a year but still hefty......</p>
<p>i heard usc comes out on the 26th!</p>
<p>Tuitionsaver, you are definitely right, but 50k is quite common for most private universities around the country. Even UCLA is 46k. So, the 18k goes pretty far.</p>
<p>Encumbrance, yep, decisions are mailed tmrw.</p>
<p>I open my mailbox... and there it is in all its glory-- an envelope from USC!</p>
<p>"That's strange," I think to myself. "I thought BMD decisions were going to be mailed on the 26th."</p>
<p>Bursting with anticipation, I tear open the envelope.</p>
<p>The card reads "USC 2008- Neighborhood Receptions for Newly Admitted Students."</p>
<p>Yay. -_-</p>
<p>xcrunner: UCLA is not 46k....its more like 26k.</p>
<p>46k for us out of state students :).</p>
<p>oh right. haha I guess the UC system is pretty nice to us California kids. but after visiting USC, USC >> any UC.</p>
<p>I agree, lol. And the UCs are kind of stingy with their money. I mean, USC is giving me 35k, UCSD...2,500 a year. And four years of guaranteed housing. Woo.</p>
<p>Rejected. Sucks.</p>
<p>spidey, are u in socal?</p>
<p>"Thank you for your interest in..."</p>
<p>Darn it.</p>
<p>Socal? No. Southern California, yes. Good luck with you letter. I really wanted to get into this program, and I thought I gave a great interview. Success is only a mirage for some.</p>
<p>wow. Spidey you had some impressive stats and ECs too....I'm in norcal= Northern California....so I'm probably gonna get my letter tomorrow.
Although I felt good about my interview (except for a couple minor things I felt I could've worded better if I got a second shot), I still maintain that they couldn't have cut down from 100 to 40 people ONLY based on a 15 minute interview. It just seems really hard for me to fathom how they could do that except for a few border line cases.</p>
<p>Thanks. I tried my best to make myself something else besides a "stats" kid, but that didn't work. Oh well. I'm not so sure about medicine anymore, though. Competition to get into med school seems too fierce nowadays. Getting into the BA/MD program really would have minimized stress during college, with the MCATs and all. Perhaps it really isn't worth it. Best of luck to you.
PS: I'm surprised people in northern California call it Norcal. It kind of bugs me when people call Southern California Socal.</p>
<p>oh, sorry... southern california! at least u got to the interview stage, though. that's saying something...</p>
<p>I'm really sorry Spidey :(. This really scares me now, I wasn't counting on knowing until AT LEAST the end of the week. Do you mind sharing when the letter was postmarked?</p>