Official USC 2014 Transfer Thread

<p>@HappyLifeMachine Contact an admissions officer and get their opinion, but I would do it fairly soon, as they sometimes take a while to respond.</p>

<p>@tay217 I would say yes, your GPA is above the average of Dornsife transfers, and having a job helps. Good luck!</p>

<p>Last year i had a 3.4 applied to marshall missing the main writing course and calculus i needed to have done n was flat out rejected late may. this year i have a 3.68 applying annenberg with everything complete.</p>

<p>@JR2013 I wonder if Marshall sends an SGR if the Calculus class is in progress during the spring semester? Or if they just look on the Common App “Spring Courses” list…</p>

<p>@scahopeful Yes, they will send a SGR for sure if you take Calc now.</p>

<p>@JR2013‌ is correct. The majority won’t hear anything until Memorial Day weekend or shortly thereafter. Very few people get letters in April. If you sweat it, you’ll have a heart attack before June.</p>

<p>@RandonNewGuy I’m not sure when you heard, but if you ended up hearing later on (late May - June), did you accept admission to another school? If so, how far along in the planning process did you get with regards to the other school? I know it’s almost inevitable but I really don’t want to lose the money, or go forward with plans to potentially move to another state and then end up canceling all of those plans. It sounds ridiculous, I know that it is worth the process in the end, I was just hoping to get some insight from someone who did it. </p>

<p>Has anyone ever taken Calc in the Spring and received admission to Marshall w/o an SGR? << I almost feel like it has happened I just need to remember where I saw it.</p>

<p>Has anyone had a shy under 48 transferable semester units and received admission to SCA? </p>

<p>I know that there are a number of application variables but all of those factors aside have the two cases mentioned above ever happened (that you all know of)?</p>

<p>@RandomNewGuy Do you know what the process of sending spring grades for an SGR is? From what I’ve read, USC’s final decision date for SGR’s is relative to when one sends the spring grades in (the sooner they’re sent, the faster the response). So since my teachers should have grades put in by May 20th (give or take a day or two), do you think it would be smart to just send the spring grades right in to them as soon as I can, even if i haven’t received a letter from USC? It couldn’t hurt, right? </p>

<p>I hope you understand what I’m asking</p>

<p>What does the term sgr mean, I see it mentioned all the time?</p>

<p>@Ianbernas Spring Grade Request</p>

<p>Does anybody know of anyone who got into USC’s architecture program as a transfer? </p>

<p>Anyone here applying to Viterbi? It seems like engineers are pretty underrepresented here.</p>

<p>@sorakeybade I applied to Viterbi computer science, how about you?</p>

<p>Just curious but does anyone know which of the schools are easiest/hardest to get into? Are there any stats on the admissions to each?</p>

<p>@JR2013‌ </p>

<p>Did you have a second choice major other than marshal? Did you have a downward trend in grades the spring of last year?</p>

<p>@cidzor Computer Science as well.</p>

<p>@transferr2014 Dornsife is the easiest, average GPA for transfers is 3.5. Not sure about the average GPAs for the other schools, but I believe Marshall’s is 3.8</p>

<p>In the event we fail to get accepted into the school that offers our desired major, do we get a shot at going to dornslife? That’s what I’ve been thinking for some reason.</p>

<p>@esai23 They evaluate you for your first choice major school and if you don’t get into that, they evaluate you for your second choice major school. If you don’t get into either, you are just not in, they don’t default to Dornsife. </p>

<p>@hepburn95‌ - Thank you for that! I guess for me, it is Dornslife, because I put my second major as “DLAS: Open (Undecided)”. </p>

<p>Btw, I think I remember seeing a video somewhere on USC regarding Financial Aid. Does anyone have a link for that video? </p>