USC Chance (Interesting ec)

mazdaspeed3fyhn
Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:18:22 +0000

The time of acceptance letters is getting closer and closer, and to be quite frank, I’m getting anxious.

USC is my top choice.

3.6 UW GPA
multiple AP and honors courses
2020 SAT
competitive California hs

I’m hoping my ec can really bring me over the edge for usc; I know they like to see well rounded students.

Essentially, a few years ago I got involved in an upstart website that over the course of my hs career I helped grow into an alexa top 50k site. It’s profitable, I’m in a management roll, and it’s given me the opportunity to travel across the world. I intertwined this into a really strong personal statement that rolled with the whole personal growth them.

My grades sort of slipped junior year but first semester senior year I took a pretty heavy course load (for a senior lol) and pulled a 4.5 GPA.

Additionally I have strong letters of rec from my speech and debate coaches and my father is an alumnus.

Realistically, I know I’m at the lower end of the application pool gpa wise but do you guys thing my extra **** is enough to push me over the cusp??

thanks

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