<p>If you were rejected and applied to the SCA, does your appeal go to the university or the sca, or both?</p>
<p>I’m wondering because most new information I’d be able to send in an appeal would probably have a bigger affect on my decision in the eyes of the SCA, but if the reason I wasn’t accepted was because of my academics then it may not mean much if the appeal only goes to the university as a whole.</p>
<p>Hard to say since it’s SCA. You could have been rejected by both USC and SCA because of your stats (while SCA does look at your portfolio, they do have to have academic cutoffs to keep standards high) or SCA could have rejected you based on portfolio and not academics, while USC declined to offer you regular admission based on your entire package. Could be any combination, really.</p>
<p>i would email your admission’s counselor or call him or her to ask this question. They might be able to clarify.</p>
<p>You need to focus on this rejection as a rejection from USC and not just SCA. SCA may have wanted you, they may not have. If SCA hadn’t wanted you, but USC still wanted you for the school at large you would have been accepted undeclared. So, you should focus on new developments for admission into the school at large–I’ve never heard of someone appealing a rejection and getting into SCA.</p>
<p>I get that ^, but anything that would help me in an appeal would be meaningful to those at the SCA as it applies to the major I applied to.</p>
<p>I think you misunderstood what starchild87 was saying.</p>
<p>Successful SCA appeals are rare. If SCA wanted you even in the slightest, you probably could have gotten in. What the other poster was saying is that, if you really want to go to USC AT ALL, focus on appealing to the school at large (as that is more likely) and NOT SCA – that is, if you think your stats are comparable to other undeclared/CLAS students who were accepted here; otherwise, this whole conversation is moot.</p>
<p>If you get into USC, you can later apply for admission into SCA (but not WST, unless you can afford to stay at school an extra year.) I think they allow production and CTCS transfers in the spring semester, even.</p>
<p>Gotcha, thanks.</p>
<p>atomicnut, you already got many good answer. I’m afraid I, too, have not seen a mechanism that allows for appealing to SCA. There are a few things one might try.</p>
<p>1) appeal to USC–if you have very strong stats in general plus compelling new info (upward trend, new honors and academic awards, that sort of thing). If you succeed, you could try to switch majors to SCA once you are at USC and doing very well (good USC GPA, take a couple of SCA classes and do fabulously! make friends with profs).</p>
<p>2) attend a California community college, do great (above 3.7 GPA), and apply as a transfer next year or in two years. You would need to re-apply to SCA with all your new supplemental materials. There is a wonderful talented ccer who did not get into SCA last year and is trying to transfer in this year I believe. Check the USC transfer thread for much more info.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>