I’m gonna start this request early and repeat it - if posting accepted (yay!) please include:
School and major
State and/or city or country you are from
Everyone is always interested in that info if you don’t mind!
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Yes! My son is a delight, a great student, and all around great applicant (no bias there, right?), but with numbers like these, there’s just no way… Oh my heart!!!
Should deferred applicants also post?
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In past cycles, admission into Dornsife was always less competitive in relative terms as opposed to programs like business, engineering, or the creative and performing arts. For example, the most competitive programs within the School of Cinematic Arts had acceptance rates of 1-4% while many programs within Dornsife had acceptance rates in the high teens. But that was also when USC’s overall acceptance rate was 12-16%. With a projected overall acceptance rate of 9-10% this cycle, the highly selective programs are going to be even more so, and even programs that may have admitted 15-20% in the past will be seeing diminishing percentages admitted. Such is the reality when 80K+ apply, and the yield rate keeps increasing. A couple days ago, I had predicted that due to the 41.3% yield rate last cycle that USC would be admitting only 7800-8200 this year versus the 8884 last year. And post 471 states that USC has stated that it will be 7900 overall. So, yes, even programs like environmental studies must now be deemed as rather competitive. Your second choice major will likely still consider you if the first choice major passes. And there is also the third possibility of simply being admitted by USC overall but Undeclared. But that tends to be less likely for those who apply solely to Dornsife. My younger daughter was admitted that way in 2017 but then quickly internally transferred into SCA later that year. So that is an option too. Good luck…
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I was secretly hoping an acceptance when I was looking at the profile they accept last year in terms of gpa and sat. We are maybe slightly above the middle, so I was thinking they have to admit someone, right? But the more I read then less confident I become. We provided sat superscore, I just don’t know what pctg of kids decided to not to provide sat or act score. Maybe we shouldn’t provide either. Sigh.
Looking at last year, non CA applicants’ admit rate is slightly slightly better. And this year there are like 10k more applicants, I don’t know if this increase is mostly driven by ca or non ca applicants.
I honestly regret applying early. We are not shooting for scholarships at all, so applying early doesn’t have any benefits and just extra anxiety with early results release for no benefits. I have no prior knowledge about usc early round and just thought this is the first time they offer ea so we should give it a shot.
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Dornsife, Environmental Studies/Cognitive Science
California
No Merit
3.9/4.4, 1540
I don’t want to restart the debate, but with uc schools being test blind, I suspect USC got a ton of applications without test scores particularly from California and whichever of the west coast flagship states that are also test blind. The admissions staff has got to be very busy with all the holistic reviews.
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Yes anyone that wants to post, good or bad, should do so!
So merit will come out separately. Just admission tomorrow. Great info @Mwfan1921! I appreciate the transparency, particularly on Deans which have been unpredictable in terms of timing. Sometimes Jan, sometimes March, but sounds like they will roll with the big boys.
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I love their transparency. I wish other schools did this. At our east coast school, apparently all time high number of USC applicants this year.
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It’s like Willy Wonka, 40,600 bought candy bars but only 2,400 will find the golden ticket!
Tomorrow we will all find out.
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Anyone know what time for ea?
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Based on their ig story, the decisions will be rolling out all-day.
I thought a few years ago they stopped specifying which scholarship students were interviewing for. The way I view it, if you are a NMF, and are asked to interview, you are guaranteed Presidential and are interviewing for Trustee.
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Does everyone’s planning worksheet in FAST come up as “The Planning Worksheet is currently unavailable. Please check back later.”
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my son’s does
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Eh, its fairly predictable if you have the right stats/profile/essays.
What’s the purpose of that?
There is likely many times over kids with the “right” stats to be admitted, as is the case at all the top schools these days. Though it is also the case that some percentage of that 40,000 is kids who don’t have the threshold stats.
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