Stats Only - USC Decisions 2010

keevwu
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:49:41 +0000

Decision: Accepted - Spring

Date applied: Before Dec 1
Date decision postmarked/received: 3/25;3/27
Accepted at which school/major at USC: CLAS - Undeclared
Stats:

* SAT Total: 1940 M: 710, CR: 570, WR: 660,

ACT: 29

SAT Subject Tests: 710- math2c 680- bio(e)

GPA-UW/W: 3.63/3.71

Rank: Top 40%

AP/IB classes: AP Bio, Calc AB, Environmental Science, Government


Subjective:

* Essays: Reflected on a personal circumstance, and how I persisted even through those tough times.

Teacher Recs: Don’t know. Probably generic.

Counselor Rec: My counselor likes me. She knows of my personal circumstances. Probably a really great rec.

EC highlights: Taekwondo (11 years, black belt 2nd degree), Captain of an intramural basketball team, I have a great job with my friends dad (Ophthalmologist Nurse/Technician), and I wrote about how this job made me want to become an ophthalmologist in one of the short answers


Location/Person:

* State or Country: CA

School Type: Public, very competitive

Ethnicity: Chinese

Gender: M


Other Factors, hook?: first generation

General Comments, scholarship chances, status info, going to USC…?: Deciding between UCSD or USC spring. I got the supplement for UC Berkeley, kinda sad I didn’t get accepted. I would have went there in a heartbeat. My parents want me to go to USC. I got into UCSD’s Revelle campus, so the GE’s are kind of turning me away from them. It all depends now on my financial aid package for USC. If I have to pay $20k or more, I’ll go to UCSD (Only $9k a year with my financial aid).

Rejected from UCI and waitlisted to Tulane and Davis… but its okay. USC and UCSD are both better.

It seems as though USC really likes my school. Half of the people in my school that applied to USC got in.