<p>I am looking to attend USC, but i heard a lot that it is a really big party school/fraternity school. I am in no way a book worm, but i do not want to have to party every weekend to fit in or to make friends. I do not mind having fraternities, but does "greek" life dominate the social scene?</p>
<p>only ~20% of students are “greek affiliated”</p>
<p>My kids & most of their friends at USC are NOT Greek & very happy there. It is large enough that most folks I know and have read of have found their niche happily. S is fairly studious as an EE student. D is a more “artistic” as a pre-Cinema student. Both have found lots of nice folks to hang out with.</p>
<p>Thank you for lifting that weight off my shoulders lol. One more thing, I have a 3.3 gpa right now but all my classes are honors. Will they look at that and put me ahead of kids with the same gpa in non-honrs classes or will both of us be looked at equally?</p>
<p>Blanca,
Are you an admitted student? If not, check out the student profile on the admissions website. That will help you decide if you are a good academic fit. None of us can predict how the admissions committee will select students.</p>
<p>They tend to favor kids in AP classes. Do you know what your unweighted GPA is? This year’s admitted class had an average GPA of 3.7 (weighted).</p>
<p>The class profile for the incoming class that entered in the fall is posted in the admissions website. It states the enrolled freshmen at SC had a mean GPA UNweighted of 3.7. In another article I read the weighted GPA of the freshmen was over 4.0+. Some of these students are from the most rigorous public, magnet, private, boarding schools in the nation. </p>
<p>Admission today to highly selective universities is a mystery.</p>
<p>Georgia Girl, according to that recent article from the USC newspaper, the average unweighted GPA went up about .1 for admitted students this year. I think it’s fair to assume the average unweighted GPA is now somewhere near 3.8</p>
<p>I do not receive the DT. The only statistics I had available were those on the website profile for the class that entered in the fall of 2008. It is good news that admitted students have even higher grades for the class entering in fall of 2009.</p>
<p>Students are still making college choices. In this uncertain economy it will be interesting to see if there will be significant changes in the profile for the new class entering on August 19th.</p>
<p>Georgia Girl, it was particularly interesting because they raised the acceptance rate, but ended up with higher average statistics. This just makes me very proud that I was accepted. Like you said, I think they’re expecting the economy to lower the amount of kids that actually choose to attend the school. Still though, I bet when everything is said and done the average statistics of those entering in fall 2009 will be quite high.</p>
<p>Here is the article. GPA (UNweighted) +0.1, SAT +25 points
[Daily</a> Trojan - USC plans to adjust acceptance rate in wake of economic downturn](<a href=“http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/usc-plans-to-adjust-acceptance-rate-in-wake-of-economic-downturn-1.1627362]Daily”>http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/usc-plans-to-adjust-acceptance-rate-in-wake-of-economic-downturn-1.1627362)</p>
<p>Apologies if I am adding confusion, but the way I read those stats, I think they were saying:</p>
<p>This year (2009), the total applicant pool (35,000?) had a higher average unweighted GPA and SATs than last year’s total pool. That doesn’t account for the stats of accepted OR matriculating students in 2009, so we’ll need to wait to see when they post the final numbers, as Georgia Girl has said.</p>
<p>In addition, last year (2008), the stats for accepted students differ from the stats of matriculants. So while USC accepted (around 7000?) students whose average UW gpa was 3.8, the matriculating students (around 2600?) had an average UW gpa of 3.7. That makes sense, when you think about it, because many of the highest statted acceptees may have had other good choices and matriculated to other schools. </p>
<p>For future applicants, it’s always best to judge your chances based on the average accepted student, because that is the number you want to be close to or above. </p>
<p>Have I made this all clear as mud?? LOL. Please correct me if I am wrong!</p>
<p>Hmmm… if I “get” what you are saying, then it could be that the added .1 GPA brings the accepted student GPA to 3.9?</p>
<p>I would suspect that the current tough economy will cause USC to get more students who want to accept their generous merit awards, so we may be seeing increasingly HIGHER average stats in matriculating students. I know this is a huge factor at my kids’ HS & a key reason many choose USC.</p>
<p>At first, alamemom (and you are <em>not</em> lame!), I thought the averages would stay steady–since USC is accepting a larger number of students this year in concern over the economy. But I have to agree with HImom’s excellent point–there may be a greater number of tiptop students accepting Trustee/Presidential NMF/Presidential this year, thus bringing the avg gpa higher. We’ll have to wait and see.</p>