<p>According to my experience, USC tends to either state the average SAT Score to be slightly higher or just "round up" in general.</p>
<p>C'mon, it's all propaganda. Public image! Every school does it! When you state a higher % of great SAT scores, the better your school will seem, the better students your school will ATTRACT. God knows how USC has been trying to climb up the latter these last 5 years. Although I do think there are SOME validity to stats on USC's website, I would advice you to disregard the majority. </p>
<p>For example, the unweighted mean GPA is 3.7... well, does that take into account of the number of AP courses the applicant has taken or not? It doesn't state on the website. It's not specific enough for us to get intimidated by this mean.</p>
<p>When the admission officer from USC visited my school last October, he told us that he has seen every application that goes to the school for the last 3 years. (which I highly doubt) He also told me that last year's average SAT score was 2025. Considering that, this year's supposed 2100 isn't too big of a difference. When I asked him who got the lowest SAT score and still got in, he stumbled a bit, and told me that on top of his head, he remembered 1 particular student who was a special case and had a 1850.</p>
<p>I am almost 100% certain that there's people with SAT scores less than 1850 who's gotten in.</p>
<p>Moral of the story, don't let the stats listed on USC's website scare you. Don't let these "admission officer talks" intimidate you either!</p>