@surefineitsok That’s my alternate major.
Let’s say I have a 4.0 and many units, and I’m currently taking one of the prereqs let say Business Calculus right now in the spring and I won’t find out my grade until June 17 (when the spring semester finally closes) would I expect an acceptance or SGR? @CADREAMIN
@woshua I would say maybe a SGR but don’t expect an acceptance even with a 4.0 considering even 4.0 students can get rejected.
if i turned in my application on feb. 1 when do i find out my decision for the school of annenberg??
@sagaciousforever I think I was mostly intimidated by a lot of the Viterbi kids. I wasn’t a CS major, but my major had me taking several CS courses. I remember when I took CSCI 201 and we were put into groups, one of the students said something like “oh, you’re a linguistics major? that must mean you love writing. i’m sure you’d love doing all the documentation for us”. I don’t know, I guess I just always had this weird inferiority problem and that kept me from trying to make friends with some Viterbi students.
I thought my wait was insane. Some people in the past figured I was lying too or must have gotten an SGR first to hear back so late. That’s crazy. I wonder what happens to lead to such late decisions. I guess the admissions office can get overwhelmed and some of us slip through the cracks and they forget or something, hmm.
@Steamedz Well, I can’t say for sure since they didn’t exactly tell me why I was rejected. I can just state the facts. I applied as Dornsife/Undecided for my first major choice. My second major choice was insane and I probably wasn’t even considered for it anyway. It was CS/Games. I had all of my general education work done with the exception of a foreign language. I would have only completed a level I course prior to transfer. I did also need complete my transferable math course though. Anyway, when I got my SGR, it was apparently quite unique. I called the admissions office and the worker (perhaps a student worker?) stated that she had never seen an SGR like mine. My admissions counselor called and said he wanted to see my math grade - nothing else. I finished the semester with 5 A’s and 1 B. The B was in my statistics course. If my counselor was only concerned with my grade in math, it would seem like I got rejected for getting a B. I’ve actually spoken with two other students from my CC that had him as a counselor that had eerily similar situations to mine. Perhaps it was seen that stats isn’t really a rigorous course when compared to something like calc, so the fact that I didn’t ace the course might not have been viewed favorably. This is definitely getting too long, but it basically does come down to that. I was asked for my grade in math. I got a B. I got rejected.
@zettasyntax Thank you for sharing! Eerily, I’m also taking statistics at the moment. 
Any chances that decisions will be released today?
@zettasyntax can affirm the sentiment about CS sadly. I noticed most CS students are either REALLY nice or REALLY cruel. No in-between, at least my community college. I’m a CS CC major at the moment and def. have noticed these types of individuals sadly.
So for those looking into Viterbi, it’s not just USC, most CS majors at almost every school will have a superiority complex that you’ll just have to deal with. Some more prominent than others ofc, but will be everywhere.
Have any non ttp sophomores been accepted/rejected?
@zettasyntax ya, I can confirm you weren’t denied for CS, because you weren’t considered for CS. Ha. Viterbi only considers applications with Viterbi major as first choice. Putting Viterbi major as second choice is basically a waste of keystrokes. Hope grad school is rockin for you!
Does anyone know anything about how tough it is to get into USC’s Global Business Program. People talk all the time about Marshall’s business school but Global Business is co-owned by both Marshall and Dornsife. I haven’t seen anybody here talk about it so I’m a bit in the dark about my likability to get in 
@CADREAMIN That’s what I thought as well. I was fairly certain that Viterbi wouldn’t even consider me since I had them down as my second choice. I honestly have no idea what the heck I was thinking either. I had pretty much none of the math or science needed for Viterbi. I was just a crazy uninformed applicant back then, haha. I also don’t know why I applied as undecided back then. Things might have been different had I actually picked a major.
It’s been a bit challenging. The minimum GPA is higher than several other grad programs I looked into, so that’s made things hard. I struggled a lot with phonetics at USC and of course that’s part of the core program here. It’s pretty rewarding though. I’m learning an entirely new school of thought compared to the linguistics department at USC. And crazy enough, one of my classmates is a USC alumna that I took a couple of classes with! Such a small world. I miss USC so much at times, but I’m happy that they were able to get me into my dream graduate program. I just hope I survive it.
@zettasyntax Nice! Thanks again for sharing your story.
I feel like USC is very lenient on missing one/two prereqs or even not finishing enough major requirements. If they see you as a good fit, they will accept you no matter what. However, you may not be able to graduate on time if you are behind and they still admit you. Your story on not finishing enough major requirements but they still admit you showed that USC is lenient.
Hopefully, I stand a good chance with that missing lower-division English class!
We will find out soon. Fight on!
Hi about the missing pre reqs I actually emailed my usc counselor about that and they said it’s definfelt okay if you’re missing up to 2 because you can always take it at USC
@UniCoIn Thanks for confirming again.
I emailed my admission counselor a while ago and he also said if admitted you have to take it before graduation. I am a Marshall applicant who’s missing lower-division English and that’s it. I finished Business Calculus in freshman year which is a major requirement so I am assuming it’s more important.
Marshall only has those two requirements. Also, I am hating UC schools now so much because I have still not heard from UCI (which is my safety school and Pepperdine is already better than UCI) and I have a 3.7 ish from Pepperdine. I am missing UC’s second English class and UCs are not as lenient as private universities so probably RIP.
USC and Emory, I got you!
TTP? @FutureTrojan100
@CADREAMIN Hey! I got an SGR from USC and I’m a Sophomore transfer. I’m a TTP who’s attending a CC in California. I have a 4.0 GPA and I’m majoring in Psychology. I already have completed the foreign language and the lower division English requirement in the Fall along with a few other GE courses. I think I got an SGR because I’m taking Statistics this semester and they want to see my grade for that class because it’s one of the pre-req for my major (Psych). Do you know if it’s possible to get rejected from USC after getting a 4.0 GPA in the Spring? Or do you know anyone in the past who earned a good GPA and still got rejected after submitting their SGR and do you know why? Thank you so much for reading this!
@Trojan4u1001 I am not even sure why you are worrying. Yes, there is a chance that you will be rejected with that 4.0 in Spring, but the chance is very rare. Most students who got 3.7 or higher were accepted after the SGR, so it’s very rare that you will be rejected with that 4.0 in Spring. I am not an admission officer so I cannot guarantee you anything.
Good luck.
@sagaciousforever Thank you for your comment! I’m just afraid because I keep hearing that you can get rejected with an SGR even with a good GPA in the Spring and I want to know why that would happen and scared that it will happen to me.
@Trojan4u1001 You’re TTP with a 4.0. You’re golden, just a matter of when. Plenty of 4.0s are rejected, but not 4.0 TTPs. TTPs are under a different set of criteria than regular transfers. TTPs are “already admitted” as long as they don’t mess things up, and it sounds like you have done everything right - took correct classes, got great gpa…