USC Iovine and Young Academy (IYA) Class of 2026 Applicants

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All of our applications are in now, and I think it’s time for a new thread! Does anyone have any new information about the program this year?

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Previous thread: USC IYA Class of 2025 Applicants

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so fun to see the next cohort start to develop haha! current IYA student here, would love to answer any questions about the program in general :slight_smile:

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hi! thanks so much for starting this thread! I applied to IYA and am super nervous to find out about interviews. do you know when they’ll notify us? I’ve seen on threads from previous years that it’s usually January 25.

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i’m so nervous i’m gonna vomit

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I received an interview!

Does anyone wanna make an instagram groupchat or something?

PM me and i’ll try to get something together haha

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Congrats!!! I got an interview too! Would love to join a chat :grin:

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Congratulations!! I got an interview too!
I would love to talk my instagram is @saylorfrankel and my snap is @saylor.frra

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Congrats!!!
International Applicant here. Interview invited.
not sure should I share my stat etc, but I guess it’s good for coming applicants.
Noticed some might feel uncomfortable reading others’ material, I will reply to my own post. Skip if you don’t want to read any.

PS: do we have a group chat or sth? Don’t really have an ins, but guess it’s time to create one.

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hey! congratulations! if you share your insta handle I can add you to the group chat
I’m international too :grin:

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lol I’m watching how to use ins video on Youtube now hoho. Still don’t know how to use it (´ཀ`」 ∠)

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First time sharing these online. This info is supposed to act as a reference and reference ONLY. PLEASE don’t be a copycat. This can only harm your application.

Stats:
SAT/ACT: Waived. haha guess who’s SAT got canceled TWICE. I HATE COVID.
UW: 3.97
W: 4.55
AP17 (including G12. In class10, selfstudy*7)

Honor/Award: (not specific)
International Art Awards*2 & Neuroscience Award & Translation Honor & AP Honor with Distinction

Activities: (not specific)
Art club leader, AI club co-founder&co-leader, Some student organization co-founder & promotion chair, Some translation community volunteer&LC candidate, Music related stuff(chair; ABRSM G82 G51, national performance), Pioneer top 5%(ML related paper), Coursera certificates*21, NHS and some other trivial stuff.
And i just realized i forgot to include data science competitions when applying to USC(…). This is what will happen if you try to be a cliffhanger in the middle of a deadline crisis. Life gets harder.

Portfolio:
Art Piece2, Industrial Design3. Video about some web design with ML application.

What else do you curious about? Feel free to ask me.

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I just realized most of my asterisks () turned into italics… if you see texts in italics it simply means there’s an asterisk. In class10 = In class10

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great i messed up with cc’s notations :sweat_smile: :rofl:

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Congrats everyone!! I got interview invited too, my instagram is @faithyseo, if there was anyone who wanted to reach out :slight_smile:

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for people who didn’t get an interview, do they send an email saying that or do they just not send one of all?

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did you take ap exams? if so, did you include those and what did you get?

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me instagram is @lieslanggijono if u cld add me <3

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*my

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hey cld you add me ? @lieslanggijono