USC Application Legal Issues

hmom5
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:41:48 +0000

You can write about your struggles in such a way that it will tell USC what you would bring to it’s campus. They know they are not getting kids who have been prefect all of their lives.

I really, really implore you not to lie. Among other things, if you go to USC, graduate, and it somehow gets out, they will revoke your diploma. Say you become successful and a newspaper writing about you digs up your background…

All that said, it will very likely hurt your chances. The better you handle it the less it will hurt. I suggest you not use the ‘how I turned my life around’ story as your key essay, use it as a supplemental essay.