@BIMguy Ha, yeah that’s exactly what is going on with me pretty much. She knows NYU and USC are my dreams schools, but she is also so conflicted. I live in NorCal as well. Love it here. Living in Santa Rosa currently
@ChimaoLOL Ha, thanks man. I’m really nervous, but I’d still be okay with not getting in. I used a different submission video for USC and NYU, so I’m curious if I could still get in. Thanks for the positive support
Son’s SGR was May 4, sent immediately and still no word, no restrictions change and the transcript is still listed on “required documents.” (Although it’s listed under “received” as well). So it can clearly be more than two weeks from SGR in case anyone’s wondering. He is a TTP freshman applied to Marshall. (However he filed his transfer app several weeks after the deadline, after being told that it was okay and would be considered by his counselor.)
This wait is honestly killing me I applied to SCA for animation and I haven’t gotten any grade requests or heard anything about my app. I don’t think I’ve ever been this stressed for so long.
@ProfessorX5 That’s amazing!!
@ChiamoLOL My parents really like NYU! But, upon viewing my financial aid package, I don’t know how feasible it is for the average or low income student to attend it. -sigh-
USC does take more cinema & media majors, but I would imagine it would be the hardest major in a sense. Since everyone who couldn’t get into their first major would choose it as their second major, and the admission officers would have to allocate the people who chose it as their first choice and then the people who picked it as their second major. Obviously, there are more, but more competition who have more to show on their applications? Ahh, that’s what I think?
Any more Annenberg acceptances? Stats?
@ProfessorX5 if you don’t mind me asking, what is you’re financial situation? Or if you’d feel more comfortable, even just your EFC would help. I’m trying to get an idea of what my aid may be if I get admitted.
Hey guys so if you get a SGR (Spring Grades Report), do consider yourself in?
Or does it mean it’s still pending?
I am applying nxt year
Should I worry if I didn’t get an SGR? I currently have a 4.0 GPA.
@Kyles52 are you a Soph or junior? If you’re a sophomore, I’m pretty sure they send SGR’s to nearly all sophomore applicants
@paydre I guess we’ll find out if its guaranteed. I have a 4.0 overall GPA and just sent my spring grades.
@ucsborusc If anything, they probably want you to maintain a certain GPA before letting you switch into the major, but I don’t know why that other applicant made it seem like switching into Annenberg was as simple as just asking. I don’t really know too much about it =\ I do have a casual acquaintance (he almost never talks to me) that is, I believe, doing something with PR and he would often say that the first classes he took were incredibly easy compared to his other courses at USC, but I don’t if that makes you feel any better about taking a chance - he doesn’t mention how easy his classes are anymore though, lol, so my guess is that they’re harder now 
And yeah, I think sometimes, transfers do need an additional semester if they haven’t completed all of their GEs and major prep. I pretty much had to take this summer session to even have a chance at graduating on time with other junior transfers from my application year.
@LACCryan Sure! I had 40 units completed by spring 2014 with a 4.0 (I took a winter intersession and earned another 9 units) and I was taking 21 units in spring 2014. My courses were: stats, Spanish, symbolic logic, objected-oriented programming with C++, data structures with C++, and econ (macro). My major at my CC was CS/IT, but I wasn’t sure if I actually wanted to be a programmer rather than a computer scientist, so I didn’t really have any math prep - making the stats course my first math class. I applied as Undecided/Dornsife as my first major and I belive, CS/Games as my second choice even though I knew full well I wouldn’t get in for that - I was really counting on getting in as Undecided and seeing where to go from there. I had a somewhat similar experience. I received an email from my counselor and he asked to see my grade for the stats class; nothing else. This was essentially my version of an SGR. I had 5 A’s and 1 B with the B being in the stats class. So, going by that, I can only conclude that I got rejected for getting a B in stats. Maybe it could have been deemed that my schedule was too easy and lacked the rigor - meaning I should have gotten the A in stats, but I never really found out though.
@ProfessorX5 Wow, that’s awesome. Do you have any special grants or scholarships aside from the normal ones (Pell Grant, Cal Grant, FSEOG [or whatever it’s called]). I hear that USC is a little stingy when it comes to covering anything for housing, so if i did something wrong, I want to know lol
@penntousc I will be transferring as a junior.
My classes for Spring have not yet finalized. I’m just wondering if there is still a chance.
@TheWorrisomeGirl Hmmm…I’m not too sure about that.
@ChimaoLOL Hmm, yeah, I’m probably wrong! I don’t know what goes on behind the scene for admission, but I hopefully I get a favorable reply from USC.
@Kyles52 if you’re going to be a junior and you’ve met your major requirements and some GE’s with a 4.0, I’d say you have a pretty good shot. I think an SGR is really only a bad thing if your grades have declined.
@zettasyntax Your admission counselor personally emailed you to get a SGR? he must be really interested in your application then, right? Since he wanted to see your stats grade, the B might have been a turn off for him regardless of the other A’s in your classes
@penntousc Single mother makes ~$50k a year taking care of 4 kids, brother’s girlfriend who family abandoned her, and her father who moved in to escape a 45+ year drug addiction.
@zettasyntax I am getting ~$50k from grants and ~$13k from the Transfer merit scholarship
@pomeranian4rich Yeah, the fact that he emailed me directly really made it seem like he was interested in me as a student, so maybe he held me to a higher standard.
@ProfessorX5 Ah, maybe it’s the Transfer Merit Scholarship. My mother is a widower and her sole income is Survivor’s Benefits totaling about ~$15K. If that didn’t get USC to pay for housing, I didn’t know what would, lol
@thepinksun I wonder what those restrictions mean…
@LACCryan what maximum until tomorrow they might send another email that your password has been changed and you are able to login