NOOOO
can you post the link to where usc said this? i cant find it
It’s on Instagram, too … Portal only on 3/26
Google USC Admissions Twitter, this site doesn’t always allow certain links.
So glad they posted the date since we knew already knew it was going to portal only.
got it! thanks
@syrstl you referenced #1192 in response to @biochemmajor11 question about anyone getting the veri-tax email that didn’t apply for aid. But the poster in #1192 did fill out a FAFSA. They just didn’t do the CSS.
Maybe it was asked and I missed it, but I was wondering if anyone received the veri-tax email that didn’t indicate anywhere that they were interested in any need-based financial aid (FAFSA, checking the box on Common App, CSS, anywhere).
Isn’t this pretty late for USC? Does anyone think they are changing some decisions based on the Covid turmoil?
Having date is great, but we’ll see if they hold to it as that is the latest it has been for them in the last 10 years. Gonna check in with birdie.
@raincat - If you are music major for Thornton - did the office or a prof tell you later than regular decisions for music? (not referring to Music Ind). In past years, music majors have also found out earlier than regular decisions. Last year I was communicating with folks that got it both before and the week following regular decisions. Just fyi.
Not sure what you mean about changing decisions? It certainly impacted the everything about the release as the mail date had already been set when all this broke loose. Or are you referring to decisions on the applicants?
FYI from USC admission’s website:
Admission notification
While we remain excited to welcome the newest members of the Trojan Family, the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted us to notify applicants of their admission decisions only online. We will not be sending admission decisions via mail.
First-Year Applicants: Admission decisions will be available in the USC Applicant Portal on Thursday, March 26. We will notify you via e-mail when your decision has been posted.
Transfer Applicants: Watch your e-mail for status updates. Applicants will receive either an admission decision or a request for spring-term grades by May 31.
@CADREAMIN with the pandemic and ensuing stock market turmoil, do you think admissions is potentially changing some admissions decisions, given that yield might be lower? Is this why we all have to wait longer? The wait is brutal for everyone!
@CADREAMIN we weren’t told any date, just the usual ‘by April 1’ date that was on the website. But my son didn’t ask them at the audition.
I didn’t know that Thornton, in the past, released any earlier. I’ve followed the old Music Major threads of years past but never this main USC thread so I would have to go back and compare dates from last year. The Mar 26 date just seems so late as you said, compared to years past.
My question re whether the virus turmoil has changed anything re decisions, there has been some speculation on other CC threads that colleges may decrease or increase admissions offers or change wait-list numbers based on the very different landscape with the sudden uncertainty of international student matriculation and all the other issues that this virus has created (not least of which is the disappearance of wealth with the stock market plummet.and potential changes in where parents can afford to send their kids to school).
I know we all need to remain calm, and I’m trying my best, but with the portal update happening later than usual,.I was just wondering if USC could be rethinking their 2020 class… Waiting for decisions is so much harder in the current landscape.
Thank you for being on this thread and providing your insights.
Sorry I cross-posted with @JoonBee2002 !
We are thinking alike!
Bummer. USC joins Ivy Day…
https://admission.usc.edu/coronavirus/
They just updated portals with this message also.
At least we know portals are working :)!
@raincat and @JoonBee2002 twin posters 
First, Thornton. I’ve got a lot of PMs over the years and it is through those where I learn a lot of good details that I otherwise would not know. Sometimes it’s easier to discuss personal things on a PM then out here and insight chaos, ha. I have been in touch with differentThornton families that received their acceptances with or without scholarship. They were mailed separately and in some cases, the student received a call from a prof welcoming them, just before regular admissions were mailed (like the day before). Another got “waitlisted” for a very small program (like 6 people) so if one dropped out it was a big deal, and then there would be room for this “waitlisted student.” Another example was receiving the package a few days after reg decisions. Point is, Thornton, while being pretty much in the same timeframe, really beats to their own drum and sends out their stuff themselves in many cases, like the performance majors. MI hears with the general crowd.
Decisions are done. Those are great theories, but from my guy there, they are done. There may be an advantage to aligning with Ivies or other top tier schools for release date…so it may be more of a PR strategy than political. USC has not been at the top of the game with portal updates, so hopefully it goes smooth! I was a bit skeptical of that late a date too, but the original notification was 23rd so it’s not that much later. If I hear anything new, I will pass on!
OMG @CADREAMIN I am going to listen to you and not stress. My daughter would still love to go out of state, and I’d hate for the craziness to change a college decision. I agree that it could be possibly the date of “Ivy Day” that they decided on, to be aligned with them. Berkeley planned on this as well.
@COmama24 You are so sweet! Didn’t your D get the save the date postcard from SCA? That has always meant something, hope it does this year, even if they don’t have “the event” you were saving the date for anymore. Hard not to get excited for you, but remaining calm and even for their applicant is the parent’s job. It’s hard!
Since the scandal helped publicly elevate USC to elite status (ha, also being a terrific school), I think they are just gonna ride the wave and buckle in with the big boys come notification time.
I’ve had four accepted to USC (still have one there) and have been tracking this stuff for almost a decade (yikes) and this is a really big change. This situation we are in gave them and the new USC president an excuse to break a decades old tradition and move into this century, while aligning with their peers. I think the students want the simplicity of a portal update, so my guess is it stays going forward. We’ll see!
Have their been any early indicators of acceptance previous years??