<p>Do USC Scholarship recipients (Trustee, Presidential) get preferential housing options???</p>
<p>caliboi1313,</p>
<p>Scholarship recipients received their acceptance letter before most other applicants received their acceptance letters. Therefore, they had the opportunity to submit their housing requests earlier than other applicant/acceptees, so in that sense they received some preferential treatment. However, not all students prefer the same dorms. Therefore, a student who received his/her acceptance letter later than scholarship acceptees may still have a good chance at getting his/her first or second choice. (Not sure if this answers your question, or not).</p>
<p>As parent of a Trustee Scholar, the answer is no. Housing is determined by lottery # only after the first year. There is also no preferential registration for Trustees/ Presidential recipients.</p>
<p>Trustee, Presidential, and Deans scholars do get priority for the Dean's Halls (Marks and Trojans Halls); however, there is no preferential treatment for other halls. Do note, however, that a large proportion of merit scholars choose to live in other buildings on campus.</p>
<p>One other way you can get priority registration is by having a LOT of credits via AP or college courses. My S entered with the max 32, so he gets to register before folks who have none or fewer & has always been able to get his pick of classes & gets to start his school day later (ideal for him). Tho the credits won't help him much in getting his engineering degree early, he loves being able to register really early due to all the credits. I think it gives him priority for housing registration as well, since by credits, he was a sophomre when he entered USC.</p>
<p>HImom, that sounds interesting! I've never heard of that before. So should I send in my AP score reports ASAP way before registration for any of these "benefits"?</p>
<p>I'm a little confused, because I registered for what I thought was already the earliest date this summer.</p>
<p>For incoming freshmen, you register at orientation. The 1st session is actually in Hawaii in May. They save spots in classes for later orientatino sessions so they aren't all taken at the earliest sessions.
Yes, get your AP scores sent to USC whenever they're available, but they should be there by the time they start organizing spring registration so you are given appropriate class standing & it can affect your registration time & date (my S consistently gets to register very early because of this). You can ask more about it at orientation.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe your units completed (AP credits) and class standing affect only your <em>class</em> registration time. <em>Housing</em> is still based on a lottery, and other than the sophomore guarantee (which puts sophomores ahead of everyone else-- "sophomore" defined by your year, <em>not</em> number of units), everyone is treated the same.</p>
<p>You're guarenteed a spot in Dean's Halls for as long as you have the scholarships, but don't do it unless you have to.</p>