USC Transfer Decisions 2009 OFFICIAL THREAD

igotbadluck
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:14:32 +0000

Accepted - CLAS/MATHEMATICS/ECONOMICS

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[] College transferring from: Pasadena City College and Glendale Community College
[] Entering as: Sophomore
[] GPA: 2.84
[] Units completed: Time of Application: 39/3.33 GPA |Final GPA after Winter and Spring: 60 units completed/ 2.84 (Had an F in CALC II and admissions officer says it was okay.)
[] Units in progress: 5
[] Pre-reqs completed: 2/3
[] GEs completed: 3/5 (Needed a cross-cultural class and also foreign language 3)
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[] ECs listed on app: High School Recognition for Attending Pasadena City College, LA Fire Department Award for Community Service
[] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring
[] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote how I wanted to become a math and physics professor in higher education
[] Letters of Recommendation: None
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[] Other schools applied to: UCLA (Rejected), UCI (Rejected), UCSD (Rejected), UCD (Rejected), UCSB (Rejected), Stanford (Rejected), UCR (Accepted), Pepperdine (Rejected), Northwestern (Rejected), University of Redlands (Rejected)
[li] Comments: USC’s admissions got light this year. I had a 3.50 in Summer 08, 2.80 GPA in the Fall, 1.08 GPA in the Winter, and 2.50 in Spring. I was lucky. I did not get any financial aid initially because my family income was over $200,000 but after talking to an financial officer, they gave me some really nice grants and scholarships. Really lucky. My advice for others. Don’t tell your admissions officer you bombed a course until after you are admitted. Or even if you got straight C’s in the spring semester… For physics… I was so close to a D I was lucky I got a C in it. Also, sign up for classes that looks great before sending your transcripts and then change your classes to something else than what they expect. For the spring, I had economics, accounting, political science, multi-variable calc and linear algebra… They saw that but later, I dropped all that to sign up for physics, spanish, french, and bicycling. I dropped french later with a W. Still, the admissions counselor was fine with it. I just got lucky. I only spent 1 year at the community college too. I graduated high school just a year ago.[/li][/ul]