<p>Question guys. Are you allowed to apply to multiple schools at USC, or just one?</p>
<p>@kyle2015 I’m applying to Price</p>
<p>Question - Has anyone heard of anyone getting wait-listed by USC? I have not. I ask because it seems to me that getting a SGR is basically USC’s way of wait-listing. i.e. if you get a SGR, you might be admitted only if there are spots available after they count the SIR’s from admitted applicants. This theory is consistent with reports of SGR’d folks getting straight A’s in the Spring term and still getting rejected. Maybe some of you already came to this conclusion… but a lot of people on here have asked whether a SGR is good or bad. Maybe this helps to answer that question. What do you think?</p>
<p>@anyabel I’d be willing to bet you get accepted. I’ve had multiple UCSB friends get into Marshall with 3.4’s-3.5’s, I bet they like the preparation students at the UC’s…and a 3.7 is really good. </p>
<p>When you get accepted is a Facebook box added on USC Connect under the Admissions Tab? Are any other boxes added or deleted? </p>
<p>Yes, a long with the enrollment deposit box you will get a facebook box to connect with and meet other admitted students on a facebook page specifically for usc accepted students</p>
<p>@ipodtouch99 </p>
<p>If anyone applying to Annenberg gets any news post on here in huge CAPITAL letters because i wanna know when theyre guna start making moves</p>
<p>@dmdwelle An SGR is not “USC’s version of a wait list”. Some people who do get SGRed and have high GPAs do get rejected but that is not because they were the “last on a wait list” it’s 9/10 because their coursework wasn’t rigorous enough so the 4.0 doesn’t mean much or the school ended up admitting most of the students they reviewed after the applicant in question was SGRed. An SGR person can still be admitted over any other student therefore you can hardly call it anything remotely similar to a waitlist.</p>
<p>Actually the only thing USC has that is close to a waitlist is Spring admission.</p>
<p>@scahopeful
USC isn’t that rigorous tho. Marshall only requires biz calc and english composition 2</p>
<p>USCTransfer28-- Did Price have any pre-req courses that we needed to fulfill?</p>
<p>@scahopeful </p>
<p>Is this consider “filled out” since those red words seems like i am missing stuff.</p>
<p>Do you also have red words?</p>
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<p>Has anyone who applied to Dornsife as an Econ major gotten a SGR? </p>
<p>@scahopeful I acknowledge that what I say is only a theory, but I still think it’s strong. You say that “9/10 because their coursework wasn’t rigorous enough so the 4.0 doesn’t mean much”, but that really doesn’t make sense to me because USC already knows which courses we are enrolled in for the Spring term so they already know the level of rigor of our coursework. You also claim that “An SGR person can still be admitted over any other student”, but what is factual basis for making that statement? The one thing you said that I would agree with is that “the school ended up admitting most of the students they reviewed after the applicant in question was SGRed”, which basically describes the function of a wait list… Just my $0.02.</p>
<p>@bomerr you have to look at the prerequisites in a different context when you’re talking about acceptance. For example, the Kelley school at IU, one of the highest ranking b-schools in the nation, only requires business calc, intro to accntg, freshman composition, fin.+man. accntg, the computer in business, and 2 career perspectives course for ‘internal’ applicants (they actually require less of ‘external’ applicants) in order to be considered for admission. However, they do have a minimum GPA requirement along with essays, letters of rec, etc. That being said, the amount of courses a school requires you to have to be considered for admission does not make a school more or less rigorous than its counterparts. You have to take into account that Marshall factors in other things (such as essays) and that Marshall is only one school at USC. USC as a whole has to admit you in order for anything Marshall says to even matter. That being said, any school whose average admitted GPA is 3.7+ is in the ‘rigorous’ territory.</p>
<p>Also, you have to understand that the reason why Marshall requires so little is because they don’t accept many transfer credits (presumably because on average, Marshall courses are structured differently or perhaps just more difficult than that of your average CC)</p>
<p>@dmdwelle you’re right, there is no definite factual basis in that particular statement but there isn’t any factual basis in the statement that an SGR is symbolic of a wait listed student. And USC cannot look at the courses you listed on common app at face value. They need to evaluate the course (for example look at the syllabus and match it to one of their courses) which is presumably part of the reason they SGR you in the first place. You can choose to look at an SGR in a negative light but the fact of the matter is that an SGR is not a waitlist spot because as we have seen in the past, students who have been SGRed have been admitted to USC. So when I said they were admitted over students who weren’t SGRed, I was using your logic that an SGRed student is a wait listed student competing for a spot against another student (who hasn’t been SGRed) and got rejected.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be combative I’m just trying to let people know that an SGR is not a bad thing. It is light years ahead of being rejected and it is worth it to do well this semester and stay optimistic.</p>
<p>@Karlos yes. Usually it would just have a red message saying it is not available.</p>
<p>@scahopeful</p>
<p>1st off I agree with @dmdwelle. USC already knows what courses we are taking so if they knew even all As wouldn’t be rigorous enough, the person would be rejected.</p>
<p>2nd USC isn’t looking for the most rigorous student. They follow a system called “holistic review” which basically means if you have a crappy life, they cut you slack for not having the best grades… at the expense of 4.0 students.</p>
<p>3rd my guess for why marshall lacks pre-reqs is two fold. First it’s unknown if the CC taught a course like econ or acct well, a lot do not. 2nd they are overcrowded and if they waived these reqs people would want to take more electives.</p>
<p>4th My CC ends around the middle of may. Grades won’t be posted until a week or two later. So by the time USC reads the transcripts they will have already decided most of the spots. I agree that SGR is essentially like a wait-list because those people got last dibs. </p>
<p>Hey just curious, but does anybody know if usc updates our applications on weekends? (saturday and sundays) since the university is usually closed on weekends.</p>
<p>this way i’ll at least know only to check my applications on weekdays…because i’ve totally lost some hours of sleep over this smh…</p>
<p>@bballprofessor23 No if you look at the transfer brochure, it doesn’t say that Price specifically had any courses we needed to fulfill. But it recommends having taken economics. </p>