can i get into usc?

epiphany
Sun, 20 May 2007 13:39:02 +0000

I do not know of anyone from my D’s very prominent high school who got into USC in the last several years with less than a 3.0. The lowest I know of was someone with a 3.55 who got a 2300 on the SAT, took tons of advanced science & math (lots of challenging AP’s during any given semester, which is probably why her GPA was not 4.0).

In my experience, that 3.5 is kind of a dividing line for the category of “selective” colleges – not officially a line, but more resultingly a line.