<p>^^ Nevermind</p>
<p>Does USC require Midterm grades? Cause for some reason I always do poorly during the first half of every semester (B-/C+) , but then I get As by the end of the semester…</p>
<p>No</p>
<p>ive sent in my high school transcripts through parchment electronically the first week of february, but it still says they have not received it yet. however i got an email from parchment saying that USC has received my transcript… what should i do?</p>
<p>@saltedcashews USC takes a while to process papers, usually around 4 weeks, so I wouldn’t worry. The same thing happened to me with a different school and they said they had it but hadn’t updated their online records yet.</p>
<p>If I tailored my main CommonApp essay to USC, but I want to update the essay to a different school, where do I click to update/change it?</p>
<p>@greengecko The “common app” tab within CommonApp’s website</p>
<p>@fdominguez, would you mind explaining the beginning half of your post:</p>
<p>"If they want to accept a # amount of students, and there was not enough applicants. In order to keep the percentage of acceptance low, they would accept less. So in proportion, if more 4.0’s applied and the others with lower GPA’s where scared by either a fee or rejection, that would mean less people have chance to get in. Unless you are at the top.</p>
<p>But the margins for lower GPA’s accepted get thinner as less people apply, therefore I believe USC is doing everyone a favor. Its either that, or everyone better have average GPA’s. Then we all get in."</p>
<p>Are you saying that they had fewer transfer applicants this year, thus a higher chance of those who applied getting in? Did they make a statement about this or is this an opinion based on the extension of the deadline?</p>
<p>@scahopeful - I don’t want to speak for fdominguez, but from what I understand, it is actually worse if less people apply. And that makes sense to me. </p>
<p>Think about it like this. Let’s say USC’s transfer acceptance rate is 30%. That means that if 10 people apply, only 3 people will get in; If 100 people apply, 30 people get in; If 1000 people apply, 300 get in, etc.</p>
<p>Therefore, if it is true that USC extended their deadline because very few people applied - Again, we don’t know why they did, but this is what I and others believe - then it’s because USC does not want to increase their transfer percentage rate. </p>
<p>If they accepted 300 transfer students with a transfer percentage rate of 30% last year, they are not going to accept 300 people if only 500 people apply this year. Instead, if 500 people apply, only 150 people will be accepted.</p>
<p>Hence, by increasing the deadline, they are encouraging more people to apply just to make it easier for all of us. </p>
<p>Imagine this - This year only 100 people apply. USC keeps their transfer percentage rate at 30% and does not change it. Only 30 people get in. Now, even if there are really good students, only the best of the best, or the cream of the crop, will get accepted. </p>
<p>Hopefully, this explanation makes sense to you.</p>
<p>@esai23 That definitely cleared things up for me, because I had the opposite idea but yours definitely makes more sense. Thank you!</p>
<p>@hepburn95 - Haha thanks and you’re welcome! :)</p>
<p>I too had the opposite idea originally, but when you think about it, we’d actually be better of if more people applied. </p>
<p>To anyone whose transcripts/other paperwork have taken a while (I am talking about 3-4 weeks) to clear from the “Required Documents” section of USC Connect, I would suggest calling Undergrad Admissions and asking. I say this because this is the situation I was in; I waited all this time in hopes that they were “just taking a while” and it turns out they admit to 1) filing my CC transcripts in another file (which would have never been corrected had I not called) and 2)Most likely losing or in their words “misplacing” my HS transcripts (which were a pain to get) and are requesting I send an additional copy.</p>
<p>I guess in the grand scheme of things these are insignificant screwups on their behalf but it would definitely have affected my application had I not called…</p>
<p>@esai23 Okay, yes I completely understand what @fdominguez meant now. I was just having trouble seeing if he meant that the actual rate would drop. But of course the number would–which makes sense. But if the rate did drop, say 200/1000 admitted then that would not be a good move unless they were already close to capacity.</p>
<p>On the same page, I would assume that if less people applied but USC still needed the same amount of students enrolled, then the rate would go up. </p>
<p>Honestly, I think the latter would happen (if they accepted the same amount of freshman applicants as they always do) simply because they would need the extra students enrolled.</p>
<p>When someone is admitted to their major, this does mean that they are in the school and not a “pre-(insert major here)”? At my current school, you can only be admitted directly if you submit a separate application to the school. </p>
<p>For example, you can only gain admission to the Kelley School of Business after being admitted into Indiana/IUPUI and doing the separate application for the Kelley School unless you were a direct admit from high school. However, if you weren’t a direct admit/haven’t applied to the Kelley School, then your major is “Pre-Business” or “Pre-whatever your concentration within/business is”.</p>
<p>Is it different at USC? Like if someone applies and get into the Film & Television Production -or- Business Administration major, are they “Pre-Cinema(?)” or are they officially admitted into SCA?</p>
<p>@scahopeful - But you see, the transfer rate will not sky rocket to 50% just because very few applicants applied. Instead, to maintain their prestige and reputation, they might increase the transfer rate slightly, even if they wouldn’t get as many transfer students as they usually get per year. </p>
<p>USC Reputation > 50 extra transfer students, might be their mentality. </p>
<p>@esai23 I’m sure it won’t increase greatly, that’s not what I was trying to say at all. The point is that it will increase in general. A 1% increase is still better than no increase at all or worse–a decrease.</p>
<p>At best, it may increase by around 5% if the theory about less applicants is correct. Or, like you said at first, it will stay the same, they will just admit less students.</p>
<p>USC only asks for 2nd semester grades for certain cases right? I seriously hope they do.</p>
<p>Saw this in another thread-</p>
<p>“For some reason the admit rate for transfer students went up for the 2012 class. The year before it was 27%. That is more in line with previous years when the transfer admit rate was in the higher 20s.”</p>
<p>Source: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1575990-hardest-usc-school-to-transfer-into.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/1575990-hardest-usc-school-to-transfer-into.html</a></p>
<p>The transfer admit rate went up from 27% to 33% last year. I think it could just be a trend of less people applying to USC directly out of high school. Hence, more slots open up for transfers. I think that it’s only a bad thing if less slots open for transfers (i.e. if the freshmen admit rate increases). </p>
<p>This could be a good thing or it could just be a reaction to the issue of the school receiving so many complaints of the online application status check indicating missing documents (this has happened to many applicants)</p>
<p>@bobo79 With regards to spring grade requests before you are admitted, yes. But if you are admitted and enroll you will have to send then your spring grades anyway. When they send you your acceptance, they tell you that you have to maintain a specific GPA so that your offer isn’t revoked.</p>
<p>@hepburn95 - Interesting! I didn’t know that bit about the specific GPA. Does that specific GPA vary from person to person? </p>