@woshua Gosh, it’s really hard to say. It’s not very common though. I know @jjcc77 got in on appeal and I emailed him a bunch giving advice on classes. I strongly pushed him to take a linguistics GE and he did, haha.
Anyway, let’s say 1000 people appealed. They’d probably take in fewer than 10. It really does seem rare, but it does happen. All you really lose is the time spent writing the appeal.
@asn009 There’s no set process for transfers. What I did way back when was email a PDF to my admissions counselor. If yours is MIA, try another counselor and I’m sure they can forward the appeal to the appropriate committee.
oh my gosh! I didn’t even expect to get into USC for engineering… I had been rejected by many other schools and was settling for my hometown university… I’m so excited
@woshua Not yet. I got an SGR on the 30th so I gotta wait still for my grades to come in.
Seeing everyone posting today, I want to say I’m so sorry for everyone that didn’t get in. I’m not feeling too confident myself at this point because of my math class, so I just want to tell you guys I really suggest appealing if you have reason.
For those who got accepted, congratulations! This is a huge accomplishment and I’m so proud of each and every one of you! Time to celebrate because the wait is over!
He has already finished one year of computer science including Into to Comp Sci 1 and Intro to Comp Sci 2 and Discrete Structures. He was also a minor in Math and finished Calc 2 and 3, and did extremely well in all those courses. Hope he doesn’t need to repeat those courses again. If he still needs to take a semester of (new) pre-engineering courses and demonstrate a B or higher, then I think that’s reasonable.
Hello guys, I have been rejected, but I want to write an appeal letter since this is already my 3rd time applying to USC. Is there any way I could send appeal letter to USC? Any tip would be nice! Thanks guys
@atldreamer4 Hi! I don’t know how to pm on here but my instagram is @courtneycleopatra. I’d definitely love to make some friends before heading out west.
@zettasyntax I’d like to appeal as well. I sent an email yesterday to my counselor and she said that she would get back to me on Monday when their campus opens. I got rejected from Marshall yesterday with 46 credits, 4.0 GPA included 2 honor classes, 1 is microeconomics. I think that my essays are not strong enough to show my desire for the school then… Can you give me @jjcc77 's email since I really need help in this appealing process. Even the chance is very slim but I bet doing something is better than nothing.
Do you guys think it’s worth trying to contact my counselor right now to see what’s up with my application (no decisions or SGR) or should I just wait until Monday? Has anyone ever successfully contacted their counselor on a weekend?
Appeals are not a do-over. If you didn’t know something about the application process that was clearly in the transfer guide, or you didn’t write good essays, that is on you, so own it. This isn’t grade school and transfers should not be like naive, uniformed freshman applicants. An appeal is for new information that wasn’t included in your original application. No one else should have to tell you what they did or wrote. If you don’t know what to put in an appeal, then you don’t have one. If you don’t have new data and information and are just offering up a re-hash/ rewrite of same information, you don’t have one. If you cannot figure this out on your own, then you don’t have one. There is no committee to look at transfer appeals. Some years they take one, most years they take zero. That is zero. So you can cling to one random success story or you can really look at your situation, not theirs, and evaluate it for what it is. Sometimes (and rarely) an appeal may make sense, sometimes the healthiest thing is to move on.
Still haven’t heard back (even though their website says we would all hear back by May 31st) I’m really lucky that I SIR’d somewhere else in time :lol: good luck to everyone wherever you end up going!
@Jiminlovee Yes, FA will be reduced by a merit scholarship. What are they calling your scholarship? Some people confuse grants, scholarships and financial aid. They usually release the 1/4 all at once.
