<p>Congrats, everyone! Awesome news! I'll start a Scholarship Info thread soon! (I figured scholarship stuff was coming out soon, as I got an email today asking me to do some of the scholarship interviews.)</p>
<p>Thank you Nikara, any information about the scholarship and interview procedure would be very helpful.</p>
<p>Congrats to all! My S received the acceptance package , too! We are all thrilled and shocked this letter came so soon. To add to the suspense, his status page has simply said "Last updated 12/1" for the past two months--with no messages of any processing at all. So scary. </p>
<p>No letter about scholarships, so we appreciate any info about what to expect.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son, madbean! My son's applying for Critical Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, which I've heard can take a really long time. So I'd take it as a huge plus that your son heard already. Did his status ever change before he received the admission notice?</p>
<p>I'm still in preliminary review and have been over a month. Do you think I should call the Admissions Office?</p>
<p>Maybe you should. At least, a call won't hurt your application.</p>
<p>Part of me wishes I had never found this website lol - it makes me SOOO anxious.</p>
<p>first post here at cc: can someone tell who received their acceptance letter a couple things:</p>
<p>1) where do you live geographically
2) did you or you child send in the mid-year grades
3) how long where the different updates (prelim reading, reading, and decision) listed on the site</p>
<p>thanks again and congrats!</p>
<p>Thanks, rainmama. Best of luck to your son. Mine's online app status never changed and even now still says: Last update 12/1. !!! It may just be a technical glitch?</p>
<p>Congrats, kenrosenthal, for joining me in first-time posting. To answer your q's:
1) We live in California
2) My S's midyear grades are not out, so no, they weren't sent yet
3) As noted above, he never received updates</p>
<p>Good luck to you and all still waiting!</p>
<p>I'm starting to think that the status of "we have completed a prelim review of ur app" just means they are currently reviewing our apps. I mean it's already mid-jan, there's noway they haven't started looking at our apps.</p>
<p>Gah! My status page says:
Your application is being reviewed by the admission committee. We will mail notification of their decision by April 1. If for some reason you don't receive our written notice, we will be happy to provide the results over the phone beginning April 11th.
I'm guessing I'm not in? It changed on January 25th. If I were in, it would have said "we sent out a decision letter today" or something like that right?
ugh.</p>
<p>silvstar - no, I think that could be good news, actually. </p>
<p>Excuse me for being so OCD about this, but I decided to compile the possible status messages from this thread.</p>
<p>Molliemeow and sequoias D got these three messages, I think, with the latter two right before they were admitted:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>We have completed a preliminary review of your application. We sometimes request additional information (senior-year grades, for example), so be sure to watch the mail. You may submit senior year grades at <a href="http://www.usc.edu/MDYResponse%5B/url%5D">www.usc.edu/MDYResponse</a>, even if we did not specifically request them. We are continuing to review applications and expect to mail notification of a decision by April 1st.</p></li>
<li><p>Your application is being reviewed by the admission committee. We will mail notification of their decision by April 1. If for some reason you don't receive our written notice, we will be happy to provide the results over the phone beginning April 11th. </p></li>
<li><p>The committee has acted on your application, and we have mailed notice of the decision. If for some reason you do not receive our written notice, we will be happy to provide the results over the phone beginning April 11th.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>S33D reported this one, and theres been no update of his/her status on this board: We have received and are currently reviewing your application. We recommend you check here occasionally for an update on the status of your application.</p>
<p>Madbeans S got in without his status ever going beyond preliminary review is complete.</p>
<p>^ Silvstargrl:</p>
<p>Not at all! USC sends their acceptance notifications in waves. Late January through March. There's still plenty of time!</p>
<p>Thank You, rainmama.....we just got message #1 last week, even though my d applied in early November....At least now we know what to look out for.....My only question to all of you then would be,
"Should we send an official midyear report from our guidance office if it has not been requested, or just self-report until request arrives?" Our guidance office only wants specific school requests at this point......</p>
<p>rodney - we self-reported my son's grades because they continue to demonstrate the proverbial "upward trend," and because of a desperate desire to wake the sleeping beast after seeing that preliminary review message for 6 weeks :) I think reporting or waiting are both fine, but it would depend somewhat on the grades.</p>
<p>My d is definitely self-reporting although grades are similar to previous years..No change in trend.....</p>
<p>"The committee has acted on your application, and we have mailed notice of the decision. If for some reason you do not receive our written notice, we will be happy to provide the results over the phone beginning April 11th.
Status last updated: 1/26/2008 3:50:16 AM"</p>
<p>If this means an acceptance/scholarship interview, I'm very excited! I live in Las Vegas, NV so I'll be checking the mail tomorrow.</p>
<p>this may sound like a dumb question, but where is everyone seeing the date and time of their last update? i cant find it for some reason</p>
<p>^ Right under the notification paragraph, there's a line "status last updated: date and time</p>
<p>Lol...status changed at 3:50 AM..how random.</p>