USC Fall 2016 Transfer Students (Stats & Decisions ONLY)

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Decision: Accepted

Term: Spring 2017 :frowning:
Major: Business Administration
School: Marshall School of Business
Spring Grade Request: April 27th.
Decision Date: July 9th.
Decision Received: July 11th.

College: Santa Monica College (SMC)
Entering as: Sophomore
GPA: 3.85
High School GPA: Doesn’t matter since i took over 30 units.
Units Completed: 35 units
GEs: 6 including the 2 Global Perspective (important to note that every transfer must take 2 GEs while at USC)
Essay: Nobody here can accurately grade their own essays, so take their grading with a grain of salt.
Applied to: USC
Accepted to: USC

Words of advice for future transfer students:

From someone whose paid close attention to the admission process and has read everything you can about transferring to USC, here are some tips:

  1. Follow your schools articulation agreement with USC carefully, I can't stress this enough. You'll want to know it by heart.
    1. Complete as many GEs as possible and ALL the major requirements (this is where the articulation agreement comes in). There are people rejected every year with 4.0 GPA simply because they took no GEs and did not complete their major's requirements.
  2. Make sure all your classes actually transfer.
  3. Have a complete school workload. I took 4 classes both spring and fall semester and 2 during the winter.
  4. For SMC and many other SoCal CCs, they have days where a USC counselor comes to your campus and does a workshop presentation and a Q&A. Attend all of them and ask questions!
  5. Don't worry about extracurriculars, both my SMC counselor and USC counselor say admissions don't really look at those for transfers. I had none on my application. They focus mainly on GPA
  6. Do your research, there are plenty of forum threads here you can read.

Comment:

I’m disappointed i was admitted to spring. This is because i have already completed the max amount of GEs and major requirements someone can do before going to USC. Taking any class this fall will only be good for units and nothing more. No CC class this fall will help me knock off any other required courses or GEs that are needed to graduate. I thought USC would understand this and admit me to Fall, but i’m wrong. So this fall semester will be not very productive for me when it comes to education…

Regardless, Fight On!