<p>guidez89: its cool; hopefully i can just pick up a few more scholarships once i’m attending usc, so we’ll see what happens!!!
congrats to you! i know you were really concerned about that, so i’m glad it all worked out!!!</p>
<p>Allow me to explain what I was told while I was interviewing people. I was interviewing for the College of Letters Arts and Sciences. We definitely do the interviews by school. One of the students I interviewed put undecided as his major, with a possible minor in another school. This worried us. We did not want to give a scholarship to someone who would not be in the college as a major. However, our interview with him convinced us that he would stay in the college and not switch, so we gave him the scholarship.</p>
<p>come on nikara, why didn’t you pull any strings for me?
you know, help a sista out? : ) jk…</p>
<p>i AM curious though… do you know what criteria USC looks at when nominating potential scholarship recipients, apart from SAT and GPA?</p>
<p>I never saw you, dear. </p>
<p>I don’t know much about the nominating procedure, I was just involved in the interviewing segment. I can answer questions about that, though.</p>
<p>i unfortunately didn’t get that far, thats the problem! haha : )</p>
<p>It is definitely the school that decides if you get the trustee/presidential scholarships. I interviewed at and with CNTV people. THen admissions sends out the letters and may give you the other minor (1/4 or below) awards. I have no idea how you are nominated. I still have not been notified either way in Florida.</p>
<p>annn, I’m not sure that going into Annenberg even with your journalism ECs would necessarily give you a greater advantage for being nominated for a merit scholarship if you really want to go into business rather than a communications-related field. I, too, am greatly interested in journalism and have a fair amount of journalism-related ECs but applied to the CLAS. My personal suspicion is that USC is looking for students with a variety of interests and academic strengths; it helps if you’re interested in a variety of fields for which USC has strong programs. Dedication to these interests as well potential/achievement in those areas (though more to a secondary extent in comparison to dedication and passion, I think) will definitely help your odds. In my own case, besides my long-term involvement in standard print journalism, I am fairly involved in film music score reviewing, which is a nice blend of journalism, cinema and music. Honestly, I think that’s what helped put me on the radar.</p>
<p>Sorry if I’m getting off-topic here. If you can find a way to possibly combine business with journalism-for example, being in charge of attracting businesses and putting in their ads-I think that would definitely aid your chances of being nominated for a merit scholarship by Marshall or maybe even one of the other schools if you should change your mind.</p>
<p>I can confirm that they award the scholarships by school. Like Marshall will have “x” number of scholarships to give out.
However, I think your regional counselor does the preliminary reviewing (with or without a school quota) and can forward a strong application to your school… that’s how you are NOMINATED.</p>
<p>annn, my stats are just a tad bit higher than yours. If you are a junior, then my stats were the same as yours during my junior year. With strong ecs/leadership, you could be game for the Trustee! (and I’m in Marshall)</p>
<p>I know that each school has money to give out as well. If you get money from that school, you have to get your degree from that school (double majors would be OK but can’t decide to switch schools without losing a scholarship you were given by the school). For example, my son was awarded a Viterbi Merit Scholarship which requires that he make “satisfactory progress” towards his degree (presumably in the school of engineering), on top of his 1/2 tuition NMF scholarship.</p>
<p>Getting a trustee scholarship depends a great deal on so many factors–interview, the pool of applicants, how you meet the school’s needs (whatever they may be), etc. My sister says several of her friends’ kids are turning down USC trustee scholarships to go to dream schools with no $ or for other full-tuition scholarship schools. USC expects that & offers more trustee & presidential scholarships than it expects to fund. The ways of college admissions are complex & deep.</p>
<p>Wow I must say, thank y’all soo much. It’s been a lot of help 
I think I’ll def apply to Annenberg and perhaps maybe double major or just minor business. Like I stated before, My journalism ECs are pretty strong (mentorship with biggest paper in houston, features editor, possible editor in chief, going to state for UIL journalism in headlines, houston chronicle summer workshop, album reviewer/interviewer/photographer for music webzine) Business wise, I think I will be co-in charge of ads next year for the school paper.</p>
<p>I am a junior and USC is my dream school. A presidential scholraship would be beyond great and a trustee… haahaha wow I would be the happiest person alive.</p>