<p>GPA: ~3.6uw
SATI: 2090 (770M, 650V)
I took the SATI again, SAT IIs, and ACT but don’t have the scores yet.</p>
<p>1 AP test, on which I got a 4, but I’m taking 4 AP classes senior year</p>
<p>ECs:
President of a club
Dancer in a show 2yrs
member of a couple of clubs, nothing long term
other tutoring & volunteering commitments
NMSF
don’t want to get too specific, sorry</p>
<p>I know my chances aren’t superb but I’d like inputs. From what I’ve been reading, my gpa/scores are right in the middle range of scores from students who are accepted. USC is my dream school and I’m really hoping to go there next year!</p>
<p>Everybody with all kinds of stats, even yours, have an equal chance of being admitted. I don’t want to be unfair saying that your chances are slim to none because that’s not true. Even my stats aren’t superb (SAT 1590, ACT 24, GPA UW 3.86). The Admissions department tend to look at applications holistically, so even though you don’t have the best scores or they best grades, you still have a decent shot. :-)</p>
<p>Well, actually… while I do think it’s healthy to have some hope no matter where a student applies, it isn’t exactly true that everyone has an equal chance of being admitted to any college. If that were true, they would just throw all the apps into a big pile and start picking. The best way to get a ballpark estimate of how you’ll do in admissions is to 1) look at your school’s naviance to see how other similarly stat/gpa students from your exact HS did in previous years, and 2) look at the admitted student profile from this past admissions season to compare gpa/scores. If you fall around the average (use UW gpa–USC does), then you will also need good LoRs, ECs, and essays to wind up in the admitted group. Obviously, the higher the gpa/scores, the more likely it will be that you will be admitted, but the rest of your application is read very closely. A student who doesn’t sound particularly interested in attending USC will often not put a lot of effort into all the extra material and that may translate to being less compelling than a student with slightly lower stats who has really worked on the app.</p>
<p>After watching a lot of surprises over the years (both with some higher stat students being disappointed, and a few slightly lower stat students being admitted), we can predict that some extra hooks just don’t show up in the raw gpa numbers.</p>