Uhhh, is registration for USC open already? I’m looking at the fall classes and it looks like it is and people are registering already. Do you guys know anything about this? @CADREAMIN @zettasyntax
You register for your courses during your orientation. Continuing students can register for fall now @bean01262020
@seabee91 So on the transfer planning guide there is the category for quantitative reasoning and in that category is states that you have to pick one class to fulfill it and in the options there is econ 1 as well as econ 2.
how can one check if they received the scholarship?
@uscvibes To my knowledge, the Quantitative Reasoning category in USC’s GE is not the math requirement. This is from USC directly:
“Meet our minimum Math requirement by demonstrating a mastery of Algebra II in high school, or Intermediate Algebra in college with a grade of C or better.”
@usctransfersquad ohh that makes a lot of sense, that means I finished the math req in high school. Thank you!
@usctransfersquad is the orientation gonna be online? did they announce anything?
@ricardop101 they send an email to recipients
@usctransfersquad ah damn, hopefully theres some courses reserved for transfers or something because if not, I’m losing out on some of my classes I’ve planned lol.
Does anyone know when we get that counseling thing that’s required to plan our courses?
Hi all. I got into USC with a transfer Merit scholarship and i’m really considering going. is there a groupchat made for transfers + are any girls looking for room mates? ? contact me or add me please!
@anxiousgrl join the official usc facebook group! We have a group chat in there. You can find the link to the FB group through the usc portal on the right side.
@bean01262020 I still didn’t get accepted to it ? but thank you. do you know if there’s any room mate specific groupchats/groups?
Does anyone know how much USC would cost me if I accepted the transfer merit scholarship? it says it offers me 15k per quarter but I’m confused as to how much that would help? doesn’t USC go by semester system?
@anxiousgrl no clue honestly, but you can always ask the FB group if anyone wants to roomie with you LOL
This is to all with questions about the scholarship.
The scholarship is 1/4 of tuition it is for the year, not for the quarter or semester. So tuition is 60,032 for this next year (over the 60k mark yikes), so the scholarship is worth $15k. With other expenses, COA at USC is $80k so this still leaves $65K to come up with by various means of course. And you may be able to cut some other expenses (like don’t eat, ha), but can’t change that $60K tuition.
This is important to understand:
You do not get this scholarship on top of your aid - if you get 30k in aid, you will now get 15K scholarship and 15K aid. The aid will reduce by the amount of the scholarship.
In the past, these have all been given at once, so I would assume they were all sent today. They usually post something or send someone an email that indicates they have allocated all the transfer scholarships. If you are waiting to hear with an SGR, sorry, but it is unlikely you will get a scholarship, which makes sense, there are only 40-55 of them, all for 1/4 tuition, and those with the stronger applications hear earlier and get the scholarships. Hopefully they post that, so you will know for sure. Better to know and plan, sorry if harsh.
Re classes, don’t sweat getting in them. Current students register well before you, but the classes are fluid and people move in and out of things like crazy so just keep an eye out if you don’t get what you want at orientation. Yes, some of you may be getting up for 8am classes - ahhhhhh! But generally, you will get what you need - your advisor will help you with that. They want you graduating and not missing out on key requirements. You may have to be more flexible with the GEs you take - the good ones of those do fill fast. Overall, classes are not a problem though, it works out!
does the rejection letter say how many people applied this year? I have an SGR so i have a while till my decision but i just wanted to see how the competition was this year
Hey everyone! I’ve been stalking for a while and have gotten so much out of this thread and the one from last year that I thought I should post something. I applied to the Music Industry Program for the second time this year. Last year I was rejected by Thornton in April and then USC a month later. This April I received a SGR. Now I am just waiting like a lot of you.
I’m a bit of what you might call an unconventional transfer student. I’m in my 30’s. I started taking classes at Pasadena City College, but left 10 years ago when my internship led to a full-time job in the entertainment industry. A couple years ago my freelance gigs started drying up. I started applying for positions at networks and studios in town, but I think the lack of a degree was holding me back. So, I enrolled back in classes at PCC. I finished all the USC requirements and received 2 AA degrees in Humanities and Social and Behavioral Science.
My entire life I have been a pretty bad student. I struggled with ADHD when I was younger and then just bought into the idea that I was just a bad student that was unable to succeed in school. When I started back up at PCC I was determined to rewrite that narrative. I have completed 12 classes, and received 2 B’s and the rest have been A’s. That’s from having C’s, a D, and even an F. Can’t really call it an upward trend, more like a complete 180. Current GPA is 3.46 with academic forgiveness of the D and F. Fyi, USC does not recognize academic forgiveness.
I was enrolled in a field geology class that I was taking for fun… I started to get really interested in geology after taking the intro course. Unfortunately, the class was canceled due to the current pandemic. I am taking a UCLA extension course. I explained the Geo class, my counselor said to submit ucla extension class for spring grades.
Sorry for writing such a long post. I have gained so much from reading others posts, I thought maybe if there’s someone else who has a similar situation as me, they might get a lot out of reading this.
Fingers crossed. Fight on!
@CADREAMIN Thank you for all of your help, as always.
If our financial aid will be supplanted in some measure by this $15k award, then what is the actual benefit of receiving the transfer merit scholarship?
Maybe I misunderstood, but it seems kind of lousy to get a merit scholarship and then essentially stay in the same place financially as you would have before, assuming you receive some grant aid from the school. It almost seems like the 55 or so students who received the scholarship fail to get any benefit from it. I’d love to hear your thoughts and sorry if this came off rather negative in any way.
Scholarships that work like this (which is most of them I think) really only benefit people who wouldn’t be receiving any financial aid in the first place. At my current school I have a 28k a year scholarship and because of that I get no financial aid because according to them my “need has been met.”
@ON5000 exactly. I was on the fence about USC due to cost, but when I saw the scholarship email I thought maybe I’ll be able to attend now. Guess not lol