<p>anybody received anything from Viterbi Engineering??</p>
<p>oh i finally got that letter. just thought i’d share haha. does anyone know the percentage of applicants who offered admission that are asked for their midterm grades?</p>
<p>Now that admissions is gotten more competitive, does anybody what are the chances of being accepted with a 3.6 GPA for Sociology with all the requirements in process or fulfilled?</p>
<p>Since they intend to enroll less this year is the transfer admission rate going to be less than the freshman admission rate?</p>
<p>I don’t understand some people wanting to major in liberal arts and choosing to go to way expensive schools such as USC. Maybe since your a transfer you will only pay 2 years of tuition. But some people who shell out $200k for a psyc/soc degre from USC seems worthless… unless of course you have money to burn.</p>
<p>I am currently at USC right now. I transfered to USC a year ago and I do not have any doubt in my mind that I made the right decision. I’m an accounting/financial analysis & valuation major at the Marshall/Leventhal school and I’m going to study at University of Cambridge this summer. I cannot tell you guys how great it is to be at USC… the opportunities here are endless and the professors genuinely care about how you do in life. I know this for a fact when my professor at USC had a recommendation letter for me done by 8am when I requested it literally the night before. Thats how devoted the professors are to the students here.</p>
<p>I was accepted to UCLA Biz/Econ and that was my first choice for school. I spent some time UCLA during summer session before the fall I was supposed to enter to get a head start and boy did I regret going to UCLA. I withdrew my admission to UCLA and picked USC, and all I can say is USC is miles ahead of UCLA in terms of quality business education.</p>
<p>I have friends who are transfer students and who already have gotten internships/job offers after ONE semester of being at the accounting school at USC in the big 4 firms… no further discussion necessary.</p>
<p>you will not regret picking USC… good luck folks!!! fight on!!!</p>
<p>Oh and if you guys are wondering about my stats… transferred with 72 units with a 3.81 gpa from OCC.</p>
<p>A’s in micro/macro econ
A’s in the 2 writing classes
A’s in calc 1 & 2
A’s in financial/managerial accounting</p>
<p>just about straight A’s in all the pre-reqs</p>
<p>for calculus, as long as you know how to differentiate and integrate, you’ll be fine. you will need to take business probability aka math 218 (requires very very basic calc) which is one of the harder classes… unless you are at the leventhal school of accounting where all of the classes and the competition will be a bit tough… if you guys have any questions, feel free to email me as im busy with school but I will make my best effort on helping you guys… i was in your shoes before so I know the anxiety you guys are going through :)</p>
<p>thanks moss! that helps!!</p>
<p>UCLA had been my dream school for a while but after I attended a few presentations about Marshall, it seemed to me that marshall is the right place for me cause they cared about you more ( is that right? )</p>
<p>now i am worried about whether they will take me, what do think? I apply to business major with a 3.78gpa from cerritos college but my major prep gpa is not that bright</p>
<p>macro-B
micro-A
2 English classes-A
calc 1 and 2- B
accounting 1 - in progress</p>
<p>Also, what are the faculty and student ratio in Marshall? you know in ucla you see the TA more than you see the professor. How does that work in marshall?</p>
<p>good info moss, do you remember when you were accepted?</p>
<p>Moss, I realize you are an accounting major, but how are the opportunities for just the “business” major. Ideally, I would go to USC and major in Finance, but they do not offer that (they offer a “senior concentration” in Finance). If I were to go the route of Business major with a concentration in Finance, how are the opportunities relative to other universities. What type of job offers are kids with “Business” majors getting coming out of USC.</p>
<p>I realize you may not be able to answer all of these questions, but I would appreciate any input you can give regarding a degree in Business from Marshall.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>First off, don’t get thrown off by the “senior concentration” label. It is technically your major. The best part about USC’s concentrations are there are sub-concentrations which really points you in the direction you are interested in.</p>
<p>For example, the finance concentration has sub-concentrations such as Biz/Econ, Financial analysis and valuation, Investments and financial markets, etc… If you wanted to work at an ibank, you would pick investments & financial markets etc. Picking finance does not limit you to ibanking jobs. Here is a great powerpoint explaining all of the finance sub-concentrations.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.marshall.usc.edu/FBE/UG_SrOpt/Senior_Concentration_0607.ppt[/url]”>http://www.marshall.usc.edu/FBE/UG_SrOpt/Senior_Concentration_0607.ppt</a></p>
<p>As for Marshall’s class sizes etc… my smallest class which is tax has 12 people in it. My biggest class is marketing which is in a lecture hall with maybe 100-120 ppl, but we have individual labs with the professor supplementing the lecture which has about 40 people in it.</p>
<p>Your main contact in courses are going to be the professor PERIOD. No TA’s, unless you want extra help but you usually always go to the professor to get help if you need it.</p>
<p>But don’t worry about class sizes as most of your classes will be small. You will not feel like a number at USC… and you will get to know all of your classmates VERY well since it is such a small campus. </p>
<p>As for the workload, it is not terribly intense. In every class, there will be one major team assignment/presentation… you will end up doing at least 20-30 presentations while you are at USC, guaranteed. They really emphasize teamwork. Depending on the class you may have homework/reading etc, but you will not be overwhelmed with it. You will still have a life outside of class, I promise.</p>
<p>On the usc transfer requirement booklet it says that transfers need to complete two semesters of english. But how come usc students only take 1 semester of writing 130 and transfers have to take 2 semesters? thanks</p>
<p>ive only completed one semester of english because at my college, i was exempt from taking the first-semester writing requirement and was placed into the 2nd one. anyone in a similar situation? and do you think thats fine for usc? (if it helps, i received a 4 on the ap eng. lit exam and 750 writing sat score)</p>
<p>what if another eng class is in progress?</p>
<p>My college only requires one semester of lower level writing, so i only took one semester of it. Is this okay for USC?</p>
<p>biggyboy - i’m in the same boat… counselor said it’s two semesters or, in our case, an equivalent course. it’ll be fine.</p>
<p>thanks! now lets just hope we get in.</p>
<p>so i was rejected from usc and now i am going to ucsd for one year and hoping usc will accept me as a sophmore…any suggestions on what i should do between now and next year during the application process? thanks!</p>
<p>yeah work on anything that made your high school application weak. ie, math scores low? take calculus ii and get an A. poor writer? take a lit/writing class, get an A. make sure your reasons for transferring are great too.</p>