<p>A stat that was in the blog entry, but not posted above was that 28% of the admitted students had an UNweighted GPA of 4.0. That equates to over 2,500 kids. I find that totally outrageous. </p>
<p>. . Still awaiting a decision, hopefully in today’s mail. Would call it a bit of a ‘reach’ for my son. Notably, he goes to a private high school with, if anything, grade deflation and with few AP’s offered prior to senior year (no one from his high school graduates with “8 or more AP classes”). So, it’s hard to find much optimism here, as he’s got very high SAT’s, but few AP’s and a 3.5ish GPA. Notably, even tho’ his school does ridiculously well with college placements, USC has never admitted a whole lot of their kids. He already has some very good options, but loved USC when we visited. Fortunately because the other decisions/admits came out before USC’s he’ll be fine either way. But I do find the stats that Brunhold chose to post pretty interesting, and further testimony to how nuts all of this has become (i.e., at all the schools, not just USC).</p>