<p>@kasian </p>
<p>I had a
2140 SAT
4 SAT IIs (math - 740, chem - 730, bio - 730, us hist - 760)
national merit finalist (I put USC as 1st choice in OCTOBER!)
3.9 GPA
had 4 APs this year…(7 in total by end of year)</p>
<p>I have a feeling this was pretty average, but I thought I could have NMF going for me. 5 years of community service, a political internship, a job…not much else I think. I think my essays were decent.</p>
<p>@kasian, does your gpa and ECs also make u think usc is a reach? </p>
<p>@calculusfan We don’t. It appears based on this forum and word of mouth that more people had unknown/unknown. </p>
<p>@kasian I’m also interested in those general stats. </p>
<p>@fightonn Yes, it doesn’t look like good news for those with unknown/unknown. I’d still like to hear USC’s reasoning for why it was taken down, when they stated it does not mean anything. </p>
<p>@kerning It would definitely be nice if someone questioned USC their reason for removing it. </p>
<p>We also could raise a bunch of hell, if it ends up they lied to us like that. </p>
<p>@friedfishchen What major did you apply to? Did you apply before the merit scholarship deadline and did you apply for financial assistance?</p>
<p>Were there any people who applied AFTER the merit scholarship deadline and saw their major/class?</p>
<p>@kerning I applied to Viterbi (Computer Science and Business Adminstration) as my first choice, and Dornsife (Undecided) for my 2nd choice. I submitted my app on the day of 12/1, and I applied for financial assistance. </p>
<p>Could it have just been that they didn’t upload our financial aid status yet? Maybe the files for the unknowns/unknowns haven’t been given attention yet. After all uploading FA takes a while I would imagine, and it’s an ongoing process even after decisions are given.
I just feel like it would make more sense, if a person were to be rejected, for the area to have been blank…(?)</p>
<p>@sfxchris
It probably would make more sense to leave the area blank, but essentially the system trying to find the class/major value was drawing a blank, hence the “unknown”. </p>
<p>I usually never post in CC forums, but I couldn’t keep this to myself.</p>
<p>I just clicked on my “Application Status Check”. Under my current messages it shows that they sent “Admission Decision Notification” on Monday, March, 24 2014. </p>
<p>The downloaded message turned out to be a rejection letter, dated March 26, 2014. Kind of in shock right now because USC was my first choice school… </p>
<p>For those wondering, I had unknown/unknown in my financial aid before they took it down.</p>
<p>@friedfishchen Yes, I think there is hope. Really, I do. </p>
<p>It would be such a weird thing tho… Considering all applicants have a “class” and “major” </p>
<p>@FoxSpectator Oh no, sorry! 
I don’t have a message yet, but I am 99.9999% sure I am rejected now. I guess us unknown/unknown are the ones they didn’t want. </p>
<p>@FoxSpectator I am sorry. </p>
<p>I don’t think the admissions office is “lying” on the twitter response but rather being obtuse and evasive. The response could mean “We give accepted students their good news by sending a big packet in the mail rather than via a notation on their FA status.”</p>
<p>@yoamogatos Yes. But then the notification on their FA status would mean something.</p>
<p>@FoxSpectator Is this true? I see no change and no messages on my son’s “Status Check” page. He too was “unk/unk”. </p>
<p>Has ANYONE else seen anything like @FoxSpectator? ??? </p>
<p>and Fox, I’m so sorry.</p>
<p>I still think it is just a weird glitch in the system! Systems are never perfect! Also UsC is known for not giving the hint to ALL accepted, there are always a few that still end up accepted without a hint!</p>
<p>@Calculusfan I’m depending on you and a couple of other posters for those little inklings of hope to counteract my extreme pessimism and expectation of rejection right now, haha. </p>
<p>Even @alamemom seems to suggest that unknown/unknown are likely rejections. She usually seems to know this stuff pretty well.</p>