<p>For anyone who has specific admissions date FOR THEIR OWN SCHOOL, it is a very good indicator of how USC admits from your own pool—but only for your own school’s students. There is always an element of USC evaluating the rigor and grade inflation/deflation from HSs they know, and they know most CA high schools. So if you find, for example, that only students with 4.0 gpa FROM YOUR SCHOOL have been admitted, it might suggest (looking at the stats for all admitted students published by USC) that they consider this a sending school with grade inflation. Based on recent admitted USC student average ( 3.8) they clearly take many more students with lower gpas.</p>
<p>When we give advice here on cc, we need to help everyone get a true picture, if possible, of their chances. I’d hate a strong student to be discouraged and maybe take a school off their list based on data that isn’t relevant to their own case.</p>