<p>collegemom48, what we don’t know is how many (if any) Dormsife spring admits were not bumped up. </p>
<p>There was a lot of discussion about this issue in the winter, when USC said it would not increase the number of admitted student despite a huge jump in applications. Many here insisted USC admissions knew exactly what it was doing despite ample evidence that the common app exponentially increases the number of applications from students who are just shopping. </p>
<p>I predict there will be more than 8400 initial offers of admission to the class of 2017.</p>