Nothing in the mail for me today, the wait continues…
Seriously Congrats @jonathaanv!!!
@jonathaanv I think that’s exactly what UCLA said I’d have to pay out of pocket and USC estimated I’d have to pay around 16K if I chose to live on-campus, so I think it might be a little more than that. Maybe you’ll get lucky though 
@millaportman UCSD, UCLA, UCB, and UCD all rank extremely higher than USC in terms of bang for the buck(if you dont believe me google it). I don’t want to be like all those delusional “fight on” best school in the US students. If you want to stay in California, sure USC would be more recognized than UCSD, but UCLA not so much. That being said, tuition itself just being at almost 50k is insane. Also the networking is not worth twice what you would pay at the UC. My ultimate advice would be go to a great school where you won’t be swimming in debt upon graduation.
@mellyjune thanks!
@zettasyntax the net price calculator is for like 2014-2015 numbers when the estimated cost of attendance was like $67,000. Now it’s up to $72,000 I think. That can be good or bad news depending on if they increased funding.
Hopefully I get good news. This is going to be a big decision nonetheless.
Does anyone know why on the 2016-17 is tells you your record is being updated and that your status will be available in two days? I wonder why they torcher us like this! Haha
@jonathaanv I noticed that too. I believe for my current year, it has the total cost of attendance at $70,000. To put things in perspective, my mom is a widow and only makes about 14.5K per year and the 16K estimated out of pocket cost was the best that USC could do. I tried pretty damn hard to get them to cover housing by showing medical bills and foreclosure notices that my mom frequently gets, but they didn’t budge lol =\
@HarvardJones Thank you so much for your advice. 
I hear what you’re saying . . . the little-to-no debt option is definitely more appealing. It looks like I’d still have to pay about $10,000 out of pocket/loans for UCSD, so I’m not sure if USC can do better than that or not (if I even get accepted). I’ve been holding out hope though since I also applied for a NTSAF scholarship.
@lopqa1 it doesn’t say that for me, so I don’t know… maybe it means something for you? Could be a glitch too though
Also, I’m not entirely sure what you mean by 2016-2017 so I just assumed you were talking about the finaid section.
Lol I really wish Pennsylvania state schools were actually good schools and affordable for low income students… they’re all teaching schools and the ones with good Business schools (PSU, Temple, Pitt) give little to no financial aid and have tuition prices of 17k-20k or higher. USC is likely going to be cheaper for me to attend than nearly any school in Pennsylvania
@lopqa1 ignore it. USC websites are full of bugs right now. They’re doing a big maintenance over the summer
@HarvardJones Good advice. But $16-$20k of debt a year to change my lifestyle and income level for the rest of my life is easily worth it. It also depends on your department as well. If I was going to school for anything but business I would choose UCLA.
Marshall > UCLA Econ
@millaportman I applied for that and didn’t get it (I messed up so bad at the interview), but the girl that worked there made it sound rather discouraging, lol. She said whatever you were awarded, USC would deduct it from other gift aid. Let’s say you were awarded 5K from the Topping Scholarship, they would take away that 5K away from your university grant. She basically made it seem like USC doesn’t want you to attend for free, lol =\
@zettasyntax I’m in a similar situation. My mom (who I live with) makes only slightly above minimum wage and doesn’t have any money to be able to set aside for me. With the NPC for 2014-2015 it said that I could be eleigible for 50k+ and have to pay around 12k out of pocket (covers the 3k spread from UCLA). I hope this is still true, but i know I’m going to have to take out loans anyway.
@mellyjune I was! Thanks I guess we’ll see. Good luck to you.
@HarvardJones You’re probably right! Thank you.
@lopqa1 Thank you! Good luck to you too!
@zettasyntax Thanks so much for the info! I completely forgot there was an interview portion. 
I don’t interview well. May I ask what types of things they wanted to discuss? Was it a long interview?
@zettasyntax If you chose off campus housing wouldn’t it be cheaper, or would you get less aid as a result.
@bugajskj I agree with this. As business majors, we are really limited to our best options and can’t chose a school without factoring in things like connections and name value. If I had gotten in to UCLA under any other major, It would be a no brainer to go there over USC. UCLA Biz econ isn’t appealing to me whatsoever based on everything I heard and read from students that went there. You have to spend money to make money, so debt isn’t the end of the world if you’re going to start a career.
@bugajskj I agree and disagree. Marshall students are taught a little bit about everything; accounting, econ, finance, and management. However, these are all intro classes and are absolutely useless once you graduate. You’re basically trained to be a mini CEO. Anyone who wants to pursue IBanking, public accounting, or consulting, just being a Marshall student will not be enough. ~senior at Marshall. Ask me any questions and Ill be happy to answer them.