What's my shot for SC

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>Hey so I’m a Junior in CA, wondering about what my shot is at SC. here’s the profile</p>

<p>ACT Composite: 33 </p>

<p>SAT IIs: Span: 770 Lit: 710 </p>

<p>AP’s: Span- 5 Eng- 4 US History- 3</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.53 (with hardest courses)</p>

<p>ECs listed on app: football, track, was in 2 clubs, and work</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: did finances that were really receipts at a family friend’s company and also had a job too</p>

<p>Essays (subject and responses): already started so they should be very good- on two hardships that have come down on me the last 2 years, and my dealing w/ them. </p>

<p>Teacher Recs: better than great</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: great</p>

<p>School Type: Private, does not rank </p>

<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Gender:M</p>

<p>Also: Took 2 summer courses at a local comm. college- pysch and creative writing, both got A’s. and i also got 4 academic awards (not sure if it means much, but what the hell)</p>

<p>thanks alot</p>

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<p>slight reach/reach</p>

<p>btw Monta Ellis is a beast</p>

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<p>Your GPA is the weakest thing, if that really is weighted, but it also has to do with your school.</p>

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<p>totally forgot to mention this: so the USC admissions officer told our school that they rank our school in the top 1% of all schools in the country, and that they say that a 3.5 at our school is a 4.0+ everywhere else.</p>

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<p>you’re URM, so I think that should boost you a LOT, esp at USC where they really put emphasis on diversity.</p>

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<p>USC is really good about figuring out the GPA stuff so if what you say about your school is true, don’t worry about that.
Being a minority helps definitely helps (I’m a latina too). Everything else looks alright. I think you have a great shot personally.
LOL! Next year you’re gonna be my competition since we’re both in the minority pool! jk. Good Luck! :slight_smile:
By the way, did you just take spanish or spanish with listening?</p>

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<p>just spanish, no listening. good luck!</p>

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<p>My son with a 3.5 UW GPA and 2240 SAT’s just got rejected. As far as I can tell, high SAT’s do not bail out a low GPA. The Hispanic angle might do it, though.</p>

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<p>Me: Hispanic, lowish GPA, 2340 SATs. Still getting rejected (3/29 status).</p>

<p>Ridiculous.</p>

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<p>I was admitted</p>

<p>I’m Chinese and I got 2080 SAT and 33 ACT.</p>

<p>My UW GPA is about 3.4/4.0</p>

<p>I live in Georgia (maybe this helps?)</p>

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<p>Honestly, it’s so hard to know these days…so many amazing applicants have gotten rejected, as you can probably see on CC…it’s a crap shoot really. Best of luck, I hope it works out for you!</p>

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<p>It looks like admissions is basically unpredictable now :frowning: Good luck to you next year. If you had applied in my group (Class of '10), I would say you would most likely get accepted. But who knows anymore…</p>

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<p>LiLu, when were you acted upon? 3/29?</p>

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<p>Well, I got my acceptance package in the mail. On the “congrats” letter it says Feb 29th 2008.</p>

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<p>i think USC is really pushing the GPA this year, dont know about next year though -_-</p>