<p>I feel that for once in my life, i am experiencing a matter of such immense curiosity and desire for knowledge that it is completely altering the pattern of my day. Each morning, i wake up at 5:30 in the morning to get ready and head off to school for my 0 period AP Calculus class. Yet before i take a step outside the door into the dark morning, i slowly log into USConnect (as if stealth has any factor as to my status change), and click to see that my status is…still at “forewarded for committee review”…as it has been for the past 2 months. With no change, i trudge off to school to crawl through a packed 11 hour school day, of which a lunch period is absent. As i leave school at 5 pm, my brain thoroughly fried from writing 100 more lines of code for the robotics competition coming up, i immediately drive home to once again (yep, you guessed it) check my USConnect status. Well whadd’ya know!..nothing changed. I begin to work on the mountain of homework given to me by every teacher of my AP classes that refuses to accept that any other class approaches any level of significance equal to that of their own. The time for my one meal of the day finally rolls around, and is quickly completed in a matter of 15 minutes. Before i can get started on another medical analysis sheet, my curiosity gets the best of me. I crack open the laptop with a link right to the USConnect address on the desktop, log in quickly, and once again find no change has occurred. Back to the homework. Once midnight swings around, and i take a short break from my homework, i decide that it couldn’t hurt to check again. I keep trying to tell myself that the status will change one of these times…but alas it hasn’t. And thus has been my daily schedule for the past 3 weeks…I feel as though my last hope of getting in is if USC checks the logs for the number of times i’ve logged into the website. </p>
<p>I’ve taken AP classes. I’ve scored a 34 on my ACT and a 2180 on my SAT…nothing amazing but nothing too shabby.
I worked and polished my Essay for a solid month.
I’ve had leadership positions as captain of the robotics team for two years, drum major for two years, and have started various clubs on campus.
My deceased mother even went to USC…
and yet still i’m down to the wire.</p>
<p>And yet this is nothing out of the norm. Hundreds of people share my story, yet some of us are doomed to be rejected, to give our spot to someone else who, though they are accepted, might not choose to go to USC. Sometimes I wish that part of a college application could be the Desire to attend a certain university. Maybe then could i get accepted into my first choice college.</p>
<p><em>clicks stopwatch</em>
And my rant is official over. </p>
<p>But seriously, I don’t think i’ve ever been so obsessive over something, with such a high chance of me not making it in.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you who are in the same position I am in</p>
<p>-DJ</p>
<p>“I feel as though my last hope of getting in is if USC checks the logs for the number of times i’ve logged into the website”</p>
<p>LOL…I like the sound of this.</p>
<p>We are all right here with ya, DJ.</p>
<p>sorry man, hope you get in</p>
<p>The way I see it, you’re comparing yourself to people on this forum.</p>
<p>If you compare those scores of yours to the entire population of people applying, you’re pretty damn high up.</p>
<p>Fieralds…Here is a good way to add to this thread.</p>
<p>How many times a day do you check your status…honestly??</p>
<p>I’ll start and if you are brave enough, step in a copy/post to add to this list.</p>
<p>Fieralds - 5
Tornados - 7</p>
<p>For me there is no set number of times…basically just whenever I feel like SOME time has passed by since last time I checked. So anywhere from 3-10 I guess…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t limit it to just 5…for example…I think i have checked it about 6-8 times in the past 2 hours, simply because today is one of the estimated batch days… so my average prolly hangs closer to 8-10, but it is still an obsession no matter what my number is</p>
<p>and so anticipation rises for todays mail…if yesterday was indeed a batch mail day, then so people should be getting acceptances…for me however…i’m STILL stuck at Forewarded as i have been for a number of months now…Way to Go USC for causing large amounts of stress.</p>
<p>Back when I applied to schools I didn’t even know about this online system with the different statuses… </p>
<p>My advice would be to just let it go and wait for the big envelope to arrive in the mail.</p>
<p>You’re going to die from high blood pressure, no need for all that overwork.</p>
<p>whoa. try to relax a bit. doesnt all that work make you crazy?!?! do you even sleep?!
try to take care of yourself! you’ll find out very soon</p>
<p>Do what I am doing. I have put USC on a shelf for now. I am coming here and watching the boards, but have put all my efforts into the school I will probably be attending. I have filled out housing, gone on a visitation, etc. I finally decided this morning to start reading their CC boards because I have avoided them completely. I didn’t really want to go to this school because it is too close to home, a raging party school (although I am not completely against a party here/there) and I think it is a lame school. But…a lot of other people love it, made it their 1st choice and I need to learn to embrace that, as they will most likely be my classmates. I figure if I start riding their wave, maybe I will feel a part of the school and begin to love it as well. What about doing something like that?</p>
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This is probably the BEST advice on this entire forum!!! Thanks, tornados!</p>
<p>P.S. I just did a check on your posts to see what “lame school” poor tornados might be forced to attend… Hahaha! CONGRATULATIONS! Great job 
on the UCSD acceptance!!!</p>
<p>I hope USC reads this:
I’m stuck at “forwarded.”
You know… instead of making the “rejects” wait until April 1st, why not just tell us already?
Honest to God, it’s driving me and everyone else crazy.
I check USConnect about 3-6 times a day.
After reading this though, I’ve decided to just accept my back-up plan.
I’m sick of waiting for USC; hello CSU Fullerton.
I suppose I’ll just have to transfer later on.</p>
<p>tornados i feel JUST like you do. If I am put in the unfortunate circumstances where I, also, have to attend my lame school … I should just learn and accept it. Sure, maybe I am the PERFECT fit somewhere else and not quite as good at my lame school I will probably be attending … but I can adapt. Or, if not, I can always transfer. Or pray to God I’ll be taken off either the UChicago or WUSTL waitlists…</p>
<p>Although, getting a USC acceptance would fix all those problems.</p>
<p>Fieralds - 5
Tornados - 7
thisgirlisaG - 2</p>