USC Transfer Decisions 2009 OFFICIAL THREAD

tareeesa
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:02:23 +0000

Accepted - CLAS/English

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[] College transferring from: Mt. SAC
[] Entering as: Sophomore, but I think it should change after orientation
[] GPA: 3.5
[] Units completed: idk. too lazy to look up
[] Units in progress: none (taking summer break)
[] Pre-reqs completed: not sure…
[] GEs completed: All except one more science and the ones required to be completed at USC
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[] ECs listed on app: High school dance team, Church lay reader, Alpha Gamma Sigma, Honors Member at CC, Dean’s List, President’s list, Cultural Filipino stuff
[] Job/Work Experience: Babysitting
[] Essays (subject and responses): Talked about my passion for traveling to the Philippines and donating stuff and helping there and this and that
[] Letters of Recommendation: One from my pre-calc teacher that I felt pretty close to
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[] Other schools applied to: Cal Poly Pomona (accepted, need to call them and tell them to remove me from their system. I just lost $170 "/)
[li] Comments: I thought USC was done with me because I didn’t hear anything from them and had to call them on June 11th. They told me my application was actually still under review and that I should hear the week after. Then my admissions counselor personally called me to ask if I had any other majors in mind. I freaked out at this point but decided to add English and physics/computer science to my app. I originally applied for Annenberg and Marshall but didn’t get in, and got in with English. I don’t know what made me stand out to make them still want me, I was really surprised. But I’m going for sure because it’s a great school and I’m getting a free ride. Weeeee! Also my mom works there, but I don’t think that makes a difference. The English classes seem pretty interesting but I’m going to try to switch to annenberg or at least minor in communications once there.[/li]If you got rejected, keep trying! This is my 3rd time applying (once out of hs, 2nd time trying to transfer) and I finally got in!
Where all my Filipino Trojans at?! Haha