Please chance me! Thanks!

vinceh
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:13:55 +0000

http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/1112/USCFreshmanProfile2011.pdf

The above link shows last year’s (Fall 2011 entering) profile. I’ll estimate that your UW GPA on a 4.0 scale is about 3.75-3.85.

So:

GPA: Average
ACT: Well below 25th%-tile
EC: Average
Comm Svc: Average
Essays/Recs: Average
State: Moderately popular
Ethnicity: Over-represented (i.e., heavy competition)

Excluding your ACT, your profile is ‘average’ for SC. That’s not a knock, it’s an acknowledgment of the competition you’re up against. In a normal (23% admit rate) I’d say you’d be in a ‘reachy’ position. Your ACT score turns USC into a bigger reach. Add in the unknown of the likely larger applicant pool due to the CommonApp switch and it’s hard to be too optimistic. You have a chance but you should be mentally prepared for other options.