<p>Rejected - Marshall/ B.A.</p>
<p>Stats:
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[<em>] College transferring from: Mira Costa
[</em>] Entering as: Sophomore
[<em>] GPA: 3.4
[</em>] Units completed: 30 transferable
[<em>] Units in progress: 11
[</em>] Pre-reqs completed: All English, Econ, Accounting
[li] GEs completed: a good bit, I believe[/li][/ul]Subjective:
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[li] ECs listed on app: wrestling, bodybuilding, organizing athletic events in my religious community, community service for elderly home (100+ hours), placing in the top 3-5% in several national virtual stock investing competitions, managing several real portfolios, helping others learn about investing and various buying/selling of consumer products.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: Working for an investment firm over the past year. I wrote about how I have gotten to know my boss well, and the various things I’ve learned from him (he invented elmer’s glue, the glue on post-it notes, clear tape, and book covers). Also a mentorship with the founder/former CEO of Kashi health foods, working sales for Cox Communications, helping a start-up health supplement company, working sales at a gym, working in promotion/marketing for laser dentistry office.</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): I worked pretty hard on it and got help from quite a few people. It was about how I grew up in a wealthier neighborhood, but my parents made me work for everything I had. That sprouted into my first business I started and how I helped a non-profit doing what I loved.
[li] Letters of Recommendation: strong letter from my boss[/li][/ul]Other:
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[</em>] Other schools applied to: none. I don’t see the point in transferring to a “second-best” school. I want USC and I’ll go to USC one way or another.
[li] Comments: This isn’t stopping me. Writing an appeal, and if that doesn’t work out, I will stay another year and apply next year. Congratulations to all who got in, really great job! You earned it.[/li][/ul]</p>