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[<em>] College transferring from: Pasadena City College
[</em>] Entering as: Junior
[<em>] GPA: 3.5
[</em>] Units completed: 80ish
[<em>] Units in progress: 5
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: All
[<em>] GEs completed: All
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Internship, tutoring, CS club VP
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: CS tutor
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Pretty good
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: Pretty good
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: A lot, rejected from most
[li] Comments: Dude I can’t believe it! Haha I’ve gotten so many rejections and this was awesome…[/li][/ul]</p>
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Quite a few CS projects
[</em>] Letters of Rec: Probably not the strongest.
[<em>] Solid essays
Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: NYU (Accepted), Cornell (rejected), UPenn (rejected), Stanford (rejected), Carnegie Mellon(rejected), Wash U (rejected), Rice U (Rejected), Still waiting on Northwestern and Notre Dame
[li] Comments: USC was my top choice from the start. I am extraordinarily happy about this. My acceptance is a conditional one, but I meet all of the conditions. I think they accepted me before looking at my spring grades even though they asked for my spring grades. I get that impression because of the conditions of acceptance are about my second term grades.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Spring Grade Request - Dornsife/International Relations Decision Date & Time: April 24</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: California CC
[</em>] Entering as: Junior
[<em>] GPA: 2.9 (I KNOW. I KNOW.)
[</em>] Units completed: wayyyy too many to count
[<em>] Units in progress: 28
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: All
[<em>] GEs completed: All
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Community Service organizations,
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Random jobs here/there
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): I think this was the strongest and best part of my application. I literally went over my essays again and again. My main essay was super personal and I think it really explained my grade situation without being cliche or a sob story. The supplements were a lot of fun for me and I just had fun with them.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: Very strong. Written by two of my favorite professors. One of them is a USC alum.
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: Cal States, UCs, Privates. Rejected by almost every single school so far.
[li] Comments: I was literally shocked when I didn’t get a flat out rejection by USC. I keep looking at the letter on USC stationary they sent me because it seems like some kind of mistake. I know it’s not an acceptance, but it’s a rejection either, right? I spent a lot of my time in the beginning of my time in community college wasting time and ditching class, and my grades have recently begun to take an upward trend so I’m glad they can see that. Thank you USC for actually looking over my whole application, not just my grades. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Annenburg Journalism/2nd choice psych
Decision Date & Time: 5/31 midnight</p>
<p>Stats:
College transferring from: University of Miami
Entering as: Junior
GPA: 3.4 (3.5 after spring, but I didn’t get an SGR)
Units completed: 67
Units in progress: 0
Pre-reqs completed: ?
GEs completed: most</p>
<p>Comments: Apparently being on Provost’s list at another top Comm school isn’t good enough for Annenburg. I would have been better off applying from a community college. I also had a 2160 SAT and 200 hours of volunteer work in the past 2 years. Is it even worth it to try and appeal?</p>
<p>College transferring from: CC
Entering as: Sophmore
GPA: 3.9
Units completed: 54
Units in progress:
Pre-reqs completed: All
GEs completed: All
Subjective:</p>
<p>ECs listed on app: Genetic Genealogy, Husband/family man
Job/Work Experience: 7 Years active duty army, medically retired SSG, infantry, over 2 years in combat
Essays (subject and responses): Good
Letters of Recommendation: Three - Econ Chair Ph.d, Phill professor Ph.D USC alumni, English professor
Other</p>
<p>Other schools applied to: Cal Poly Pomona, CSULB, CSUF, Cal Poly SLO, (accepted to all)
Comments: Spring admit</p>
<p>Accepted - DORNSIFE (International Relations- Global Business)
Spring Grade Request - April 30 </p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: Received SGR on April 30 then accepted on May 29 </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>College transferring from: Pasadena City College
Entering as: Sophomore
GPA: 3.94
Units completed: 46
Units in progress: 19
Pre-reqs completed: All of them
GEs completed: All categories</p>
<p>ECs listed on app: Associated Students Lobby Committee Treasurer, Circle K International Public Relations Co-Chair, Alpha Gamma Sigma. During high school, I was a varsity member for Mock Trial, state qualifier for Speech & Debate, Camp Kindle Counselor in Training, and was the student rep. for my district’s School Board.</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: Part-time teller @ East West Bank</p>
<p>Essays (subject and responses): I don’t know what to say other than I thought they were strong and well-written.
Letters of Recommendation: Excellent recommendations for 3 professors.</p>
<p>Other schools applied to: N/A</p>
<p>Comments: I’m ecstatic for having the chance to transfer to USC in one year. The best advice I would give would be to work at getting as many of the GE categories completed as possible. I attended one of the transfer sessions and was told that the most important thing was GPA. I did 46 units in 2 semesters so definitely try to get as many units done as possible! GLAD TO BE A TROJAN, FIGHT ON!</p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: (Oasis - May 29th/Letter - May 30th)</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: Hawaii Pacific University
[</em>] Entering as: Freshmen?
[<em>] GPA: 3.4
[</em>] Units completed: 63 (total, including spring 2014) I think only 54 transferred
[<em>] Units in progress: 14 in spring 2014
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: Math, Writing, Diversity, Need one more foreign language class
[<em>] GEs completed: 2 out of 3 available at my university (the third could of been the scientific class one)
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Volunteer work at a hospital and hospice, Shadowed a cardiologist and many M.D.'s, went on walks for diabetes, heart, ect. President of Health organization, hosted fundraisers especially for the earthquake in Haiti and raised a bunch of money. Competed in the health competition for CPR/First Aid and made it to state.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: I worked 4 consecutive jobs in high school. Life guarding during the following jobs. Serving, catering, and delivery driver at a Italian restaurant. Selling kid shoes at Journeys Kidz for a while. Went to college for the first year and came back for the summer and worked at Hewlett Packard and built servers for major websites and cellphone companies (AOL, Yahoo, Verizon, ect)
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): It would be too much to explain but I simply told them who I was, what i did, what i wanted to do, what I was passionate about and how I wanted to incorporate that in to the school. I also explained hardships along the way as well. My common app essay was USC specific, so i can be the one to debunk that theory of it having to be a general essay.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: Just one from my writing/philosophy professor. I didn’t read it but we definitely had a connection that may have been presented in the recommendation.
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: UT (accepted), Baylor (Accepted), UofH (Accepted)
[li] Comments:I will definitely be attending! I am a spring admit btw. I am so happy for all the hard work paying off! I am a legacy (my sister literally just gradated 2 weeks ago from USC, but she is the only one that went there). In my first year, I took 2 classes over the winter (so they probably saw me working hard over the whole year without a break and making great grades). The low GPA is from one D that i got in Classical music that transferred (yeah, i know… stupid). However, I got mostly As and a few Bs in the classes that mattered. I hope the best for you all! Good luck, and FIGHT ON!!![/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted - 6/3/2014 (OASIS) Dornsife/IR FALL 2014 Spring Grade Request - 5/7/2014 Dornsife/IR</p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: June 3rd, 2014</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: Pennsylvania State University
[</em>] Entering as: Freshman (as of now)
[<em>] GPA: 3.5 (might lower to 3.3 or go up to 3.7 depending on how many credits transferred)
[</em>] Units completed: 33
[<em>] Units in progress: none
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: ECON courses, Diversity, Categories 1 and 3.
[<em>] GEs completed:
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Tour guide, PBL, Student Government,
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Researcher for the university.
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses):Very vivid essay on how USC was the only school for me, went in depth about my family situation and how a degree from USC would open doors for me.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: One from my favorite teacher, apparently it was excellent
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: None! USC was my ride or die.
[li] Comments: HOLY. Just HOLY. My parents were crying. I’m a first generation college student so when my family heard the news it was… yeah.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted - Dornsife - Philosophy, Politics, and Law
Spring Grade Request - Dornsife - Philosophy, Politics, and Law</p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: Accepted 05-30-14 / Spring Grade Request 05-13-14</p>
<p>Stats:
-College transferring from: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
-Entering as: Junior (Hopefully)
-GPA: 3.5
-Units completed: 65
-Units in progress: 0
-Pre-reqs completed: All for 2nd choice major (Political Science), but none for 1st choice major (PPL)
-GEs completed: All</p>
<p>Subjective:
-ECs listed on app: 9 in total. Most impressive was being chosen, along with 29 others, by the DNC over 500 others to participate in their exclusive HOPE Institute fellowship.
-Job/Work Experience: McDonalds, Car salesman, Volunteer and Field Organizer for Obama’s re-election campaign, Retail Associate, Intern for Congressman, Regional Field Director for non-profit, Tutor for America Reads-Counts.
-Essays (subject and responses): Intro was my life story in a nutshell, wanted to give them an idea of who i am and where i come from (son of immigrants). The rest of the Common App essay was a discussion of my accomplishments made thus far as well as how much i wanted to challenge myself academically, in other words how much i wasn’t satisfied and how i still had a lot more potential in me.
-Letters of Recommendation: 1 from community college political science professor, 1 from UNLV political science professor (who graduated from UCLA lol) and 1 from a USC Alumus who is semi-big in Nevada Politics, but who is going to blow it up big in the next few years!</p>
<p>Other:
-Other schools applied to: 6 others, but USC has been my first choice for the past 2 years. Applied to others at the suggestion of my UNLV professor who thought i’d fit in at other schools.
-Comments: If you are reading this you are at least thinking about applying to USC and if you are anything like me you might be discouraged to apply (had a low college gpa of 3.1 before i decided to turn my life around), but DON’T EVER GIVE UP! I put my mind to it, put in work in the classroom, put in work outside of the classroom to make me a more competitive applicant, and look at that hard work pays off! Accomplishing this dream after 2 years of hard work was worth every second of my time. If you really do want to attend USC, don’t let anything stop you, i promise you USC will not let you down if you let your personality shine through your application, good luck! #FightOn</p>
<p>Decision Date&Time : SGR May 7th Accepted June 5th </p>
<p>**Stats:[ /b]
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[<em>] College transferring from: New York University - CAS
[</em>] Entering as: Sophomore (I think?)
[<em>] GPA: 3.3
[</em>] Units completed: 28 (but 12 or so AP units)
[<em>] Units in progress: NA
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: Math for Psych major
[<em>] GEs completed: 3
[/list][ b]Subjective:[ /b]
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Vice President of LEO Charity Club, Cheerleading for 3 years, Listener at Teen Line for 2 years
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Starbucks for 1 year
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common app - talked about how I discovered NYU wasn’t for me because there wasn’t a community aspect, as well as its limited opportunity to interact between schools in terms of academics and extracurriculars.
Talked about Teen Line for the EC/Work experience essay, how it added to my personality.
Academic interest essay talked about a specific professor that is now at USC and how he relates to my interest in social/consumer psychology.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: One from my high school teacher
[/ul][ b]Other:[ /b]
[ul]
[</em>] Other schools applied to: NA
[li] Comments:[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted - Marshall/Business Administration Spring Grade Request - Marshall/Business Administration</p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: (Accepted 6/07/14 - SGR 05/07/14)</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: Fordham University, Rose Hill
[</em>] Entering as: Sophomore
[<em>] GPA: 3.73/4.0
[</em>] Units completed: 31 (46 including APs)
[<em>] Units in progress: 0
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: English and Calc.
[<em>] GEs completed: ?
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: Most activities were from high school. I did include a leadership position at my school’s newspaper.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: School’s football office. Not much to boast here.
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Just wrote a frank and honest essay on why I wanted to transfer and why USC is the perfect fit (location, campus, academics, networking, ect.) As for the supplement, I wrote about my work at the newspaper.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: 1 from my African History Professor. Never read it.
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: Georgetown (rejected)
[*] Comments: Literally the happiest moment of my life! Can’t wait to study at my dream school! Fight on!</p>
<p>Spring Grade Request on 5/15 - Annenberg/Public Relations</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>]College transferring from: Saddleback College, CA
[</em>]Entering as: Junior
[<em>]GPA: 3.78
[</em>]Units completed: 60+
[<em>]Units in progress: 12
[</em>]Pre-reqs completed: all (except only 2 out of 3 semesters of a foreign language
[<em>]GEs completed: all
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>]ECs listed on app: Guide Dogs of America, Red Cross, Church Leadership
[<em>]Job/Work Experience: been working since 16, server
[</em>]Essays (subject and responses): talked about my crowning as California state homecoming queen and broadcasting news and videos across school campus
[<em>]Letters of Recommendation: 2
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>]Other schools applied to: UC Berkeley (accepted), UC San Diego (accepted), SDSU (rejected), UCLA (rejected), UCI (accepted)
[li]Comments: Anticipating USC decision b/c it’s my #1 choice! Hoping for the best. [/li][/ul]</p>
[ul]
[<em>] College transferring from: Los Rios Community College
[</em>] Entering as:Junior
[<em>] GPA: 3.87
[</em>] Units completed: 70
[<em>] Units in progress: Done!
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: All
[<em>] GEs completed: All
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at California Business Roundtable, worked at father’s consulting company, work experience via small business
[<em>] Essays: Discussed struggles of two year transfer route, not finding help in my counselor/transfer system.
[</em>] Letters of Recommendation: Political science professor, close high school teacher I kept in contact with, Governor Wilson, Congressman Christopher Cox
[/ul]Other:
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[<em>] Other schools applied to: SFSU (Accepted) Long Beach (Accepted) SDSU (rejected) Cal Poly (rejected)
[</em>] Comments: Super excited to be transferring!
[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted - Price/Planning, Policy, and Development Spring Grade Request - Price/Planning, Policy, and Development</p>
<p>Decision Date & Time: (SGR- May 06, 2014 Acceptance- June 19, 2014)</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: UC Davis
[</em>] Entering as: Rising Sophomore
[<em>] GPA: Pre-SGR: 3.65 Post SGR: 3.57 Cumulative: 3.62
[</em>] Units completed: 39 Quarter Units
[<em>] Units in progress: None
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: None (I don’t believe Price has any!)
[<em>] GEs completed: Category I, II, V, Writing, Diversity
[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] ECs listed on app: National Honors Society [HS], Internship for Congressman, etc.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Discussed my internship, as well as USC’s urban setting in relation to Price’s accomplishments in real-estate.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: One from a statistics professor here at Davis, nothing special, I barely knew him.
[/ul]Other:
[ul]
[</em>] Other schools applied to: Vanderbilt University (Accepted)
[li] Comments: I am so relieved and happy to get in. It was an incredibly difficult process to transfer from a UC to USC, but I did not want to waste my hard work from high school and ignore a great UC like Davis. Working with a Articulation History instead of an Articulation Agreement was tough, but it was all worth it! In short, it feels incredible to get into my dream school, and I will certainly be attending. In terms of advice, I believe the honest keys to success are obtaining a great GPA and doing well in USC Core GE classes. I really think those are the main components of gaining admission. Fight on![/li][/ul]</p>
[ul]
[<em>] College transferring from: East Los Angeles
<a href=“Not”>*</a> Entering as: Sophomore (maybe Junior? I’m not sure if it’s 60 or 64 units needed to be a junior)
[</em>] GPA: 3.93 after SGR
[<em>] Units completed: 63
[</em>] Units in progress: 0</p>
<p>[li] Comments: Really sucks that I didn’t get admitted since I didn’t bomb my spring semester like I thought I was going to.[/li] [/ul]</p>
<p>Spring Grade Request - 5/2/14
eventually
**Accepted - DORNSIFE / HUMAN BIOLOGY **
**Decision Date: 6/17/14 **</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: Pierce College
[</em>] Entering as: Sophomore
[<em>] GPA: 3.63
[</em>] Units completed: 46
[<em>] GEs completed: Categories I, II, III, V, Writing, and Math
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Not much, to be honest.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Yes
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote about my educational/long term goals.
[<em>] Letters of Recommendation: One from my math professor.
[/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: Private schools only, too many to list.
[li] Comments: I was USC or bust, so I’m really happy to have been accepted. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>**Accepted - Marshall/ Business Administration (Spring 2015) ** Spring Grade Request - May 13th Decision Date & Time: July 8th</p>
<p>Stats:
[<em>] College transferring from: Crafton Hills College
[</em>] Entering as: Junior
[<em>] GPA: 3.6
Comments:
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[</em>] The rest of my stats are on page 5. So thankful to be accepted! My advice would be to work really hard so you can avoid the pain of the waiting game after a SGR. And don’t lose hope! FIGHT ON!
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