<p>Different USC but spring admits are up this year in South Carolina because of a qualified "applicant crush" - "USC is offering 1,500 spring admission":</p>
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...after a record number of qualified students applied for admission in the fall.</p>
<p>?They meet our minimum requirements for admission; we just don?t have room for them,? Dennis Pruitt, USC?s vice president for student affairs said. He emphasized that, except for space limitations, these are students who would have been admitted for the fall term...</p>
<p>even though the number of applicants for USC Columbia has soared in six years, the size of each freshman class remains roughly the same so the quality of the university?s academic experience can be preserved, Pruitt said.</p>
<p>More than 14,600 students ? the largest and most academically qualified applicant pool in the university?s history ? applied to USC for the fall 2007 freshman class, Pruitt said.</p>
<p>?When applications increase and the academic profiles of the pool are strong, the competition intensifies for the limited spaces we have available,? Pruitt said. ?We are on target to welcome the strongest freshman class yet next fall, and we look forward to extending the same enthusiastic welcome to an additional group the following spring.?</p>
<p>It?s not unusual for colleges to delay enrollment for some students. However, this is the first time USC has had such a large number.</p>
<p>Last year, USC offered spring admission to about 500 students who were qualified on the basis of their high school performances, but for whom the university did not have space. About 10 percent of those students enrolled in the spring...</p>
<p>The delayed admission will be particularly beneficial to South Carolina residents who want to attend USC. Pruitt said about 63 percent of the delayed admissions are for state residents. He believes they are more likely to take advantage of the program, while out-of-state students are more likely to enroll elsewhere...</p>
<p>Additional spaces become available after every December graduation, allowing the university to offer spring semester admission to more students who had sought admission to USC.</p>
<p>This group of applicants is separate from high school graduates who fail to qualify for USC admission initially and spend a year or more in community college to qualify for transfer to USC...
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