<p>Sorry, ccsbm, I do not. I’ve seen friends of my s who had really amazing SATs and GPA, who got into Viterbi but no scholarship interview. 
That’s why I suspect there are many highly qualified applicants to that school and they only interview a small number. For reference, I think they interviewed around 300-350 kids for Trustee last year out of 36,000 applicants to USC (although I don’t know how many of those applied by the early scholarship deadline). So, yeah. That’s about the top 1%. </p>
<p>When you have many competitive candidates (all high stats, etc), it’s the other aspects of the application that may get you special notice. Music, theater, and other creative/art majors give weight to portfolios and auditions. For other schools/majors, If you are under consideration by the department/school, ECs and special outside of HS activities in your field of study and really focused essays become specially important. So do letters of recommendation. It really helps if you have demonstrated leadership and a passion for your field, because USC’s departments are looking for those leaders to strengthen their program. That said, they do offer Trustee and Presidential Scholarships to some undecided majors, so it seems they try to parcel them out in a fair manner across majors. </p>
<p>We knew very little about this process before my son got that cool letter stating he was up for the Trustee, and I was very curious about it all when we went to USC for his Explore interview. A kindly professor and several other parents (who knew much more) passed along some tidbits–but this is just my personal impression of how the scholarships may work.</p>