Congrats!
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With such strong stats and likely Ivy admissions, would they have gone to USC?
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Yeah could be a yield protect?
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Deferred OOS BUAI (Marshall/Viterbi)
3.8UW, 4.4W
36 ACT
CS internship
I thought I had solid essays and LORs
White male
My son was accepted! OOS. Natl. Merit Commended. 35 ACT. 4.6 GPA. Dornsife.
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I believe D24 applied as health and human sciences with an interest in PT as well. Haven’t heard from her yet as if she has checked her portal as she is getting ready for her winter formal right now at a friends’ house. So happy she has something else to think about today.
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S24 accepted, Biopharmaceutical Sciences
GPA 3.95/4.73
In-state
Legacy (S21 attends)
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Interesting theory.
Twin A deferred Viterbi 36 superscore, 4.0 UW/4.4 W well rounded ECs. NMSF.
Proud of all of these exceptional achievements regardless.
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National Merit package? Personal preference?
The Ivies aren’t the end goal for everyone.
(Sorry didn’t mean to answer for you. Have very similar profile and only peripherally interested in one Ivy for various reasons.)
This staggered release is stressful. Still haven’t heard but luckily S was admitted to his other early action school so the wait isn’t nearly as painful as it could be.
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Are you going to commit to the one you have accepted or will you be waiting for few more responses.
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We are planning to visit the schools he gets accepted to before making a decision
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What schools have you all got into? im curious
Ivies are as unpredictable as USC, if not more unpredictable. They applied to 4 with good engineering majors. Not sure they will get in any but we will see. 
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I bet they will both get in RD with a strong LOCI. Probably a yield thing.
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I should mention my kid’s Viterbi acceptance is in Mech Eng, not Computer Science or a more au courant / sexy branch of engineering. GPA, course rigor and ACT score were in line with a STEM student, but my kid didn’t max out on science courses (couldn’t; their high school is an outlier). Long-time athlete in a non-recruitable sport with significant achievements. Arts hobbies and volunteering. We did encourage pursuing ECs they liked (sports and arts - the opposite of classwork!).
In state (a relief for my over-protective spouse).
And my kid isn’t really an Ivy-type given their major of choice.
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Accepted Viterbi.
Large public HS which doesn’t rank but in top 20 out of 1000.
NMSF (F yet to be announced)
Not quite 1600 SAT (congrats to your twin walking geek); all 5s on strong APs taken to date and currently taking others; dual enrolled in Calc 3.
Strong EC in tech and business.
Presidential Scholar nominee.
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not at all… they already got into Penn State Engineering for CS in very 1st wave. With their APs, they can start as juniors and graduate in 2 years. I told them with the $ saved, they can then finish a Ivy level graduate degree or two in 2 years, and we will end up spending less $$. All our eyes are on next week’s public schools. being hopeful.
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As others have pointed out, but to put it more bluntly with the metaphor of dating - USC may have thought your kids were literally too good for them and if USC had asked them to dance, your kids were ultimately going to say no anyway. I know how it stings, but that’s what it looks like to me. I know a lot of kids at USC right now, and they didn’t have stats like your kids.
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