<p>cool, im still gonna send an updated transcript with my winter grades just in case i don’t get my spring quarter on time… hopefully we get accepted without spring quarter… i can’t wait any longer.</p>
<p>I know I seriously can’t wait either. This is seriously all I think about day and night. That one decision is going to change my life. I wanna get in like you can’t imagine.</p>
<p>I know how you all feel. I am a junior transfer I have received all but 1 grade from my current school, I know what the remaining grade is becuase the teacher persoanlly e-mailed me it. But my school hasnt posted it on our online information system yet. I received a 3.75 GPA for the semester A, A, A-(still waiting for it to be posted so I can send it), B+ and my cumulative is a 3.73, im applying Broadcast Journalism for Annenberg I hope this is good enough, and i hope my current school posts that A- soon or I’m gonna go crazy I need to get this grades to USC soon so I can find out soon. Hang in there everybody. Fight On!</p>
<p>Wait I don’t get it, you’re a junior transfer and they still requested spring grades? I never thought they would do that.</p>
<p>Yes and there have been a few more of us on here as well. I was surprised they requested grades also. I had a 3.72 GPA after my freshman year and fall semester of my sophomore year and 57 credits completed on the last transcript I sent them(9 were from APs). The letter they sent to me and the other junior I talked to said they want to make sure we can graduate in a reasonable amount of time. I guess they just want to see if I’ve completed some GEs at my current school and my foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>Ya they wrote that in my letter too, saying that they want to see if I can graduate in a reasonable period of time. Either one of two things. Either (I don’t know I’m just assuming) one of your prereq courses haven’t been completed like english or something (which is prolly not the case) or they just got lazy and threw your app in the request spring grade pile or something without really even looking at your app saying they would look over it later. You might think that’s crazy and impossible but something like that happened to me. Let me explain. I took a summer course at community college before I came to UCR. So I submitted a transcript from that cc with only one course on it and my fall quarter grade transcript here from ucr that had a whole other section on my ucr transcript showing the classes ive registered for winter quarter. When I went on my finaid website and checked the document library after I got the letter requesting my spring grades they said they required a transcript from the community college. I called and said I dont go there anymore, and taht they should’ve meant a request from ucr. And they said they’ll look over it and apparently they did bc they changed it later. If they looked at my app for more than 20 seconds I’m sure they would’ve caught onto that previously. </p>
<p>So just to say stupid mistakes like that aren’t impossible. Give them a call and tell them your situation and how you think they should probably look it over or something.</p>
<p>I doubt its that Ive heard of multiple junior transfers who have been asked for spring grades. I had english 1 and 2 completed my freshman year and math completed in high school I took up to pre-calculus. The Journalism school at USC is a very prestigious program and you have to take quite a few courses to complete it. This semester I took only 4 classes at the 4year private university I go to because I knew I could only transfer 64 and I would have more than that if I took anymore. 3 of the classes I took satisfed some requirements for USC. My Sociology class saisfied the Diversity requirement. My Anthropology class atisfied Cat 2, and i also took the 3rd semester of a foreign language to satisfy my foreign lang requirement. Most likely they want to make sure I did well in those classes because it cuts down the amount of courses I need to take at USC to satisfy the core and I can start taking more classes required for the major.</p>
<p>Wow. I never knew. That’s crazy. In any case, fight on!</p>
<p>Well, for us UC Riverside students, we are screwed in waiting forever to hear from them.</p>
<p>Ya man. Yknow what though. I don’t mind waiting a little while longer just to hear. My spring quarter is coming along smoothly too. All I’m worried about now is that even though I’ve completed English 1B last quarter, I’m scared they might not take me cuz I’ve only done 2 quarters of english instead of 3 quarters. I seriously wish I took that damn 1C.</p>
<p>It looks like a lot of UC Riverside students applied to USC. Do you think that it is true that they will only accept a certain percentage of applicants from each school? For example, UCR applicants would have tougher standards because there are more of them and USC cannot take them all. (Like a transfer GPA from UCR might have to be upwards of a 3.8 but a 3.6 from another school would still qualify).</p>
<p>I really doubt it. I asked admissions and they said they’d probably weigh UCR grades higher than someone at a community college since we go to an accredited university.</p>
<p>Dude, I have never heard of anything like that. Where did you hear that from?</p>
<p>True, since I’m engineering - and no other engineers seem to be applying from here - then I should be okay. :)</p>
<p>No man that can’t be true.</p>
<p>I just hope that i get into marshall, after seeing all your GPA’s im beginning to lose hope.</p>
<p>That would make sense (that it is not true)…I was just told once from USC admissions that the standards are often higher if many students apply from one school (such as UCR) because USC has a basis to compare all of the students equally. I doubt that this policy is used though. It doesn’t seem like it would be very fair to all the applicants.</p>
<p>No man, think of it like this. There are many more people applying from like Glendale Community College and other cc’s, and if that were truly the case, then people from cc’s would need like a 3.9 to get in.</p>
<p>Yeah…thats true…I’m glad that it doesn’t work the other way because a lot of people from my school have all applied; and it seems like qualified people would all get shafted because of a simple quota limit.</p>
<p>let’s make a UCR club when we get in :)</p>