<p>@kyle2015
I believe they do because they update USC connect 2 days after they send out their decision. So if they mailed you a decision on Thursday, then it would not be posted online until Saturday. And if they mailed it Friday, it would not be up until Sunday. </p>
<p>Also, other people posted yesterday that they just got notified that they got in yesterday/Saturday. </p>
<p>cumon usc i’m totally sooooo tired of waiting dude…(sigh)</p>
<p>Just want to know my decision already so i can like totally pick my uni</p>
<p>The admission office right now (-.-)</p>
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<p>Why do some people get a SGR while others don’t? </p>
<p>If someone is SGRed would it help to also send other supplemental materials such as another Letter of Rec. and ACT scores?</p>
<p>Hey guys! I would stop worrying about not being able to log in to Oasis, I just got my acceptance and I’ve never been able to log in! I don’t think it means anything. </p>
<p>@finefreshfierce I don’t think so for either. In regards to the ACT scores, I don’t think they will even need them for the decision, so while you may have scored well on the ACT, I think they have the materials necessary that, once they obtain the Spring grades, they will have enough information to make a final decision. </p>
<p>As for the Letter of Rec, I don’t think they like the idea of a student getting one made/sent this late. I just base this upon what I read about the decision appeal info for Freshman, where they said “To burden school officers and letter writers on such short notice is not appropriate.” Although this is not the same situation, it is about the same time of year as the decision appeal time (and maybe even a bit later). While it actually isn’t that late, I guess they just feel that teachers have enough to worry about towards the end of the year.</p>
<p>Just remember that this is merely my opinion. You could call them up and get a direct opinion from the source, because this is just my two cents.</p>
<p>@scahopeful I see what your mean. I’m definitely not trying to be combative, either - we’re all in the same boat! I’m just trying to make sense of what is going on so that I don’t go totally insane whil waiting. 
And really, I wasn’t even trying to put SGR’s in a negative light at all (I’d much rather get a SGR than a rejection!). All I was trying to do is offer an explanation that puts it in terms that people can easily relate to. The truth is that we’re all in the dark here and I am not claiming to know any more than anyone else. Just having fun speculating. :)>- </p>
<p>if there is anyone who lives around usc or knows about usc’s admission process well, can you please message me? I want to tell someone my stats and get their input so I know if I honestly have a chance or not!
Thank you </p>
<p>Congrats to @ZeroTheHero @nmwcorvette and @Karlos !! Would you all mind posting your stats to the Decisions thread? I’m sure the rest of us would appreciate it! :)>- Thanks! <a href=“USC Transfer Decisions 2014 - Transfer Students - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1645573-usc-transfer-decisions-2014.html</a></p>
<p>@bomerr 1st They know the name of the course, not what the course covers. For example, I tried to transfer a course to my current university that was called “The Computer in Business” because it had the same name as a course needed for the school of Business here. After reviewing my syllabus, it didn’t transfer because my course covered applications of the computer while the one at my current university covers online research methods. </p>
<p>2nd You’re partially right but I’m pretty sure the other elements of your application is what generated the interest in the first place. And because they ask for your grades (which don’t tell you anything about the applicant in question outside of academic rigor) then that’s what the SGR is for. To see how rigorous a student is. If they ask for your spring grades only, it’s probably not because they want to see if you are what they looking for beyond academics</p>
<p>3rd This point is contradictory to your first point where you say “they already know what courses we’re taking” and therefore it doesn’t matter how rigorous the course is and then you turn around and say “they don’t require a lot of pre reqs because the course may not have been taught as well at CC” therefore it does matter how rigorous the course is. However, you seem to agree with me that the rigor of the course does matter.</p>
<p>4th If USC wants you, they will fight for you. And you may get admitted for the Spring after they’ve admitted all the other students, so in that case, it is like a waiting list (but that doesn’t mean an SGR is a waitlist because many students who get admitted for Spring don’t even get an SGR, which is what I said before).</p>
<p>I understand where you’re coming from but in the grand scheme of things an SGR does not mean that you aren’t good enough to admit so they’re going to put you at the bottom of the barrel, it literally just means (as USC adcom members have said themselves) that they need additional information to make a decision.</p>
<p>At the end of the day SGR > Rejection. People who were SGRed should not be upset about that because it’s not a bad thing. It’s literally almost the same as asking for winter grades. They simply need more information to make a decision.</p>
<p>@scahopeful
1st that is asking a course to articulate as an exact duplicate of a USC course. A lot of times courses will transfer over as simply elective credit. At the same time I was thinking more in terms of courses such as Calculus 1 or 2 where the curriculum is standardized across the nation.</p>
<p>3rd ya that is a little contradictory. What I meant was that IN THE CONTEXT of USC wanting the most rigorous students that simply is not the case. But in THE CONTEXT of making sure students are well-prepped they most obviously want that. Also like I was saying, USC’s class sizes are on the large size, most are at least 45 students, and if you look at the courses they want people to retake such as econ, the class sizes are like 70-90. </p>
<p>4th I don’t think USC would really want most transfer students, they don’t help their ratings like freshman applicants do. </p>
<p>5th It doesn’t change the bottom line that when you are up for review, you are now behind thousands of students who have already been accepted. I think that is the point we are trying to make about it being "essentially"a wait list. </p>
<p>@bomerr</p>
<p>1st a course can’t transfer unless USC has a course that is equivalent to it. So, if you transfer a course as an elective, then that means USC had a course that was essentially the same course–regardless of whether or not it was in your major.</p>
<p>Not even going to address the third thing because I already said what I had to say about that</p>
<p>4th I think it is a bit unfair to say that USC doesn’t really want transfers just because they don’t help rankings. If anything, transfers can only help the university because they don’t factor into rankings. For example, in the case that USC only cares about rankings, one could say that USC would go to far limits to keep its admit rate low. However this becomes problematic when they want to maximize profit made on tuition. The solution to that? Admit hoards of transfers. That way, they get to keep their admit rate low and profits high (considering most transfers probably pay more in tuition money than freshmen due to the very little amount of scholarships available for transfers). Therefore, your point would seem counterintuitive to the university’s initiative.</p>
<p>5th I don’t think I fully understand what you are trying to say. But, what I think you’re saying is that USC doesn’t change the maximum amount of students they will accept therefore the SGR is essentially a waitlist after the accepted students are accepted. This point has two flaws in it. The most glaring one being that they don’t even know if the class size has been capped until the final date to enroll has passed or they have some general idea of the number of students who will soon enroll (which is unreliable but still logical considering people can always decline the invitation to attend). </p>
<p>On the opposite end of the spectrum (because I want to give a counterexample), many students defer and attend next year. This does not mean an SGRed student ‘moves up the list’, it means that there is another opportunity for other students to take their spot (this doesn’t only apply to SGRed students). So, if under that circumstance the SGRed student was accepted, then the SGR could act as a waitlist. BUT, on the same token, a student who was not SGRed could get that spot which would mean that they were essentially waitlisted.</p>
<p>Assuming that the SGR is a waitlist is the most illogical possibility of them all.</p>
<p>Once again, I understand what you were originally saying (your point seems to evolve in the last post). At the end of the day, an SGR is an SGR and the subject is not worth getting upset about.</p>
<p>@xsayax This is in response to your comment: "So the 2 Writ 140 classes in my cart went back down to 1</p>
<p>(also I have checked OASIS so many times that I memorized my ID#)"</p>
<p>Does anyone know what having a Writ 140 class in your cart means?</p>
<p>@scahopeful
That isn’t true at all.
Some courses will not transfer period.
-vocational douses usually e.g. allied health etc.
Some courses will transfer as departmental or elective credit.
-great example is a foreign language course not offered at USC
Some courses will transfer as 1:1 equivalents of USC courses.
-typical courses such as calc 1 or intro to psych, etc. </p>
<p>@bomerr What? I never said all courses transferred (you actually said something to the effect of this). I said that if a course does transfer it is because USC has a course that is deemed equivalent to that course. Why do you think only certain courses transfer? Because those are the only ones USC deemed transferable because they have courses similar to it. That is how every 4-year university works. What I said is 100% true. A course won’t transfer unless USC has an equivalent course. For example, I doubt USC has a course that is similar to my sister school’s introductory agricultural engineering course so that course would not transfer because there is literally no course like it available at USC.</p>
<p>@pjhayton it doesn’t mean anything really. If you go back in this thread a few pages, you’ll see that Oasis doesn’t mean much of anything unless your Report is filled out. If the report has an error message in red without information in the graphs and/or your major information displayed, it isn’t filled out. </p>
<p>And I hate having admissions in the back of my mind during finals week. Makes me so much more nervous to do well on this - because it might all come down to my GPA for SGR’s or what not.</p>
<p>@wdemasters02 On the contrary, use the admissions as motivation, and tell yourself that these Finals are what stand between you and your dreams! </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@wdemasters02 </p>
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<p>Sorry for asking this quesiton alot of time, i just want to make sure</p>
<p>Are there any other women applying to SCA? Sometimes I feel like the only woman in a male dominated world.</p>
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