<p>I got the McKissick today after having a minor panic attack due to the fact that I had not received an e-mail on Friday night. My dad spent a while this morning on the phone with undergrad admissions and financial aid/scholarships and they had never even heard of the e-mail. They had no idea such an e-mail was ever sent out.</p>
<p>However, I received a response from an Admissions Counselor today regarding my e-mail questioning why my friend with lower scores received one and I did not. He told me to check my spam on my e-mail account, and there it was!</p>
<p>Ten minutes later I checked the mail, and found my letter awarding me the McKissick. Needless to say, my parents were somewhat furious at the terribly unnecessary freak-out I had this weekend :)</p>
<p>For those of you who did not receive the e-mail, check your spam!</p>
<p>Received the email here in New Jersey on Friday…nothing in the mail today…hopefully tomorrow…daughter is on her Senior Trip in Disney and texting me for updates!</p>
<p>McKissick here - now for a visit to USC and the Honors College, then decision time. Very grateful to have received it but it puts him at $7K more than UA (Alabama) Honors, so would have to love it to make that choice.</p>
<p>Anyone ever see a comparison of the two programs anywhere on here?</p>
<p>Just got my Cooper in the mail, needless to say my parents are thrilled. Neither one of them was very keen on the idea of paying triple the tuition of our state university, so with the reduced tuition the price is right and I can finally submit my enrollment deposit. Congratulations to everyone else receiving their notifications as well! I hope to see many of you at the Honors College and Scholars days in April!</p>
<p>S received the Cooper scholarship today!! He is definitely looking forward to being a part of the Honors College and attending USC this fall! We are looking into making it there for Scholar’s Day.</p>
<p>From taking a quick glance at both programs it appears that the USC program is smaller, a bit more selective has an overall higher student profile (except for the UA kids in the computer based programs) and is more geographically diverse, i.e. is more balanced (in-state/OOS (55/45) vs 70/30 at UA).</p>
<p>To me the things that would matter most in order of importance would be the added geographic diversity, smaller size, and the overall higher student profiles. It’s interesting to note the high percentage of OOS students from other southern states and very little true geographic diversity outside the deep south at UA. This would bother me a bit.</p>
<p>Also found this on another thread:</p>
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<p>Which honors is your S admitted to at UA?</p>
<p>Please PM me when you can I have a few additional thoughts to share with you.</p>
<p>I got McKissick notification today (SAT 1470, I guess it was my GPA that “got me” as far as Cooper goes).</p>
<p>Question: does anyone know if the McKissick will stack with the National Merit Finalist award? If so, that would be great because it would bring the price of USC below the price of tuition at my high school, so my parents would have no reason to say “no” to going out of state haha.</p>
<p>Collegebound:
Yes! USC does stack the National Merit Finalist Scholarship (called the Lieber) with your other awards…Congratulations! It’s one of the major differences between USC and other schools.</p>
<p>Daughter’s letter came today…McKissick! She is very excited…now where is it going to be…Alabama or South Carolina? The bottom line for both schools after scholarships is almost identical, but Alabama is 18 hours away and South Carolina is “only” ten!</p>
<p>Irlishheartbeat, Your drama over the weekend was almost the exact thing playing out in our home. DD received her email last evening that she is in Capstone. (FYI…her email was in her spam box also LOL)</p>
<p>So if I got waitlisted for the Honors College is there ANY chance I could still be Capstone? My roommate got Capstone and I’m worried I’m gonna be roommate-less cause he’ll ditch me for their residence haha.</p>