chances of being accepted?

imagep
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:32:15 +0000

Your GPA and test score look good, definitely in the range of most accepted students. Your academics should be in the top half (barely) of accepted students so I don’t see why they wouldn’t accept you.

A few of years ago there was some controversy where some in-state people claimed that out of state students were being given preference over in-state students in order to bring in more tuition money (higher tuition fees). But during the last couple of years I believe it has become very apparent that they are actually tougher on out of state students.

I remember one very dissapointed out of state applicant posting on this forum that they had been rejected, despite a pretty respectable (above average) GPA and SAT score.

Last year several of my son’s best friends at USC were private Catholic high school students from the northeast, so they seem to do pretty well as far as getting accepted, and his current roommate is from Mass.

I may be wrong, but I really don’t think that they put a lot of weight into EC’s, although being captain of a team may help if it is close call.

In addition to some of the sports teams doing REALLY well, like AU mentioned, the selection of the USC honors colleges as being rated #1 in the country probably also resulted in some really good students considering SC who would have otherwise not even considered it.

In my son’s major (music-trumpet), USC had never really had many out of state students until this year. One of the most famous trumpet players in the world now teaches at USC, and magically they had some really good trumpet playing music major freshmen (as in really really good) apply from all over the country. Somehow, I don’t think that is a coincidence.

Personally, I am excited about the possibility of the school climbing in the rankings because that adds some value to the degrees that USC students get.