University of Southern California (USC) (2024-2025)

[misty current]

such a good watch

lemme find it i like just watched it

[tired inlet]

hmmm is it on youtube?

[misty current]

ya

[tired inlet]

ah gotcha

1 day to la tho ..

[misty current]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyHcLp1H7Mc

[tired inlet]

i went there for a mini vacation and i was obsessed with irvine

[misty current]

he dropped out since this vid came out

but ye

[digital bear]

💀

[gaunt hawk]

where r u based

[tired inlet]

tn!

[gaunt hawk]

omg

[misty current]

whoa thats far

[tired inlet]

ikk

[digital bear]

wait how is that one day

[tired inlet]

?

[gaunt hawk]

i just rlly wanted to do a roadtrip around america b4 college

[misty current]

one day as in like

16 hours

[tired inlet]

oh fr? i swear it said a day

[misty current]

well a long time

either way

[tired inlet]

yea it says a day and 5 hours

crazyyyy

[misty current]

after college is cooler tho

or like during

[tired inlet]

urm does usc have good parking 🥺

[misty current]

i'm doing that with my buddies

[tired inlet]

i can’t go without my carr

[misty current]

if you are willing to pay for a permit sure

[tired inlet]

oh fs

[misty current]

ye there is parking

idt people have too much issue with that stuff here

they took down one parking garage last year i don't remember people complaining too much

[tired inlet]

awesome!!

[misty current]

i don't have car so i couldn't tell u anything tho

[tired inlet]

what are you majoring in?

[misty current]

econ

minor accounting

and then concurrent ms aee

[tired inlet]

ahh couldn’t be me

i’m going cs but i wanted to do game design along the way

[mellow path]

did anyone else get an email on march 4 to submit more tax documents

?

[misty current]

nah a lot of people do that here

ye even cs games ppl

grad early double minor stuff

not uncommon

[tired inlet]

oh nice

[tired inlet]

hmm i can check my finaid portal

[mellow path]

i was having a heart attack bc i had to fax all the forms myself bc my parents weren’t available 😭😭

[tired inlet]

what are they asking for?

like main stuff? tax returns?

[misty current]

probably some supp stuff

schedules

[digital bear]

the fast portal is the most ass website ever

[mellow path]

they asked for my schedule e, tax supplement and w-2 forms

[misty current]

i have to do those for break next week

[mellow path]

REAL SHIR

so dysfunctional

[misty current]

why do they make you submit the w-2 again when it's already in your tax return that you send to the fafsa

[mellow path]

i’m p sure they’re selling our data to third party websites

[misty current]

not to mention schedule e

[mellow path]

i have no idea. i had to fax them separately too 💀

[misty current]

fuck i have to do all that stuff in a week

[tired inlet]

hmmm i don’t see anything i need to submit

[misty current]

i hate fin aid

scratch that fin aid is the only reason im here

but i hate dealing with it

[tired inlet]

hmm i have that too

[mellow path]

there’s two review thingies

[digital bear]

fuck the housing app closed

[tired inlet]

wait what

[digital bear]

i should've done it last month

[tired inlet]

there’s a housing app.

?

[digital bear]

im admitted ea

[mellow path]

and that

[tired inlet]

oh zayum jumpscare

[tired inlet]

hmm let me check rq

[misty current]

yo you haven't done it yet

[digital bear]

im kinda cooked

it opens back up on the 12th tho

ill do it

fr this time

[misty current]

wait why is it closed

for u guys

[digital bear]

dunno

[misty current]

they fucked the reassignment for ppl continuing but why do freshmen get caught

[mellow path]

u should’ve gotten an email if there were any outstanding forms

[misty current]

ye its just reassignment

not the freshmen form methinks

[tired inlet]

yea all of my stuff is good

[digital bear]

wha i can't find the button

[tired inlet]

it was just all from idoc

i hate idoc 💔

[mellow path]

i’m scared the stuff i entered on the tax supplement is wrong

[misty current]

i applied for summer housing this morning it definitely works

[mellow path]

bc it took me an hour to fill out 💀

[digital bear]

oh nvmi got it

[tired inlet]

oh wow 😮

[misty current]

all my homies hate idoc

css profile

anyone related to that

[tired inlet]

wait do i gotta submit the css profile every year

[digital bear]

why can i do allat

[mellow path]

idrc. it sent to all my colleges for free 😀

[tired inlet]

yessir me too

[digital bear]

ts pmo

[misty current]

mccarthy > birnk > marks/pardee > webb > new north > parkside > everything else

humble opinion

[digital bear]

ok imma just put what you said

[misty current]

XD

[digital bear]

but like it asks for me to pick individual rooms or some shit

ts pmo

[misty current]

ye but if ur dorming

its 1 bed 2 people

[tired inlet]

are single dorms hard to get

[misty current]

yep

[tired inlet]

😢😢😢😢

[misty current]

impossible

[tired inlet]

😢😢😢😢

[misty current]

you need medical reason etc

iirc

[digital bear]

css profile is dogshit website

[misty current]

but if you're doing it like mr shrimp you cannot get a single

[digital bear]

wait i can't pick mccarthy anyways im not honors

[misty current]

well then just go the rest then

i think my rankings pretty good

unless you are latinx then you live on the latinx floor

or asian then you live on the asian floor

[digital bear]

why couldn't they give me some scholarships/honors bruh

[misty current]

etc

[digital bear]

smh

all i get are tiny scholarships from state schools

[tired inlet]

so pmo icl

[mellow path]

i applied to marshall. is it worth it if i get in? my other top choice right now (waiting for more t20s) is uva echols. but mcintire isn’t guaranteed…

[digital bear]

what do i do here

[misty current]

i only know darden what is the diff with mcintire

[tired inlet]

double, single, or triple 🤔

[mellow path]

mcintire is the commerce school for undergrad

[digital bear]

i thought single is impossible

[mellow path]

only sophomores, juniors and seniors can be in it

[tired inlet]

well it is your preference

[mellow path]

so i would have to reapply as a freshman 💀

[tired inlet]

no guarantee unfortunately

[misty current]

there are only 4 that's why i said it was imp

[digital bear]

stinky housing app

[misty current]

bc its pretty much 0

[digital bear]

oh shit

[tired inlet]

ok wtf $2k more

[digital bear]

damn its more expensive too

i can't afford

bye bye

[mellow path]

have u guys seen juju watkins around

[misty current]

ye but how is that diff from darden

[mellow path]

i’m a fan

[misty current]

bc all the people ik that place well out of uva are darden peeps

[mellow path]

darden is the grad school 😭

[misty current]

ohhhhh

ok makes sense

[misty current]

not doxing myself so i will send this march madness pic

you will have to believe me when i say i got one with her after

[mellow path]

real

i’m a uconn fan so i’m picking paige bueckers

but i love juju

[tired inlet]

6 7

[misty current]

fuck uconn

grrr

[mellow path]

nooooo

[misty current]

if ur not with me ur against me

[mellow path]

usc lost to ucla yesterday 💔

[misty current]

jk

yeah yeah whatever

[mellow path]

up by 10 at half too…

[misty current]

we won 2 out of 3

who cares

[mellow path]

juju should get npoy

[misty current]

we beat them at pauley

[digital bear]

lowkey what do these mean

[misty current]

marshall better than echols 1 million percent

[digital bear]

is the 2b3p single like two rooms for one person

[misty current]

dude there are floor plans

on the website

[digital bear]

thats crazy work

[misty current]

scroll down

[digital bear]

im blind and also stupid

[misty current]

XD

[digital bear]

oh damn a 3d model

ts pmo

what are these room shapes

[misty current]

webb tower experience

thats what

nah half the time you don't actually get what is in that floor plan

[tired inlet]

one bathroom 😢

[misty current]

like my room in cowlings here is completely diff to what the website says

[digital bear]

one bathroom 4 people is definitely hell

[tired inlet]

i’m immediately leasing an apartment with friends sophomore year 😢😢

[digital bear]

im commuting sophomore year ong

[misty current]

that's if you can find a place thats cheaper

LOL

i got a steal next year that's why im not going back to usc housing

[tired inlet]

right it’s la

[misty current]

like i have a buddy here shelling out 2.2 for a studio

he got it knocked down from 2.6 because he paid 12 months up front

crazy

at that point its actually cheaper to stay with usc housing

[tired inlet]

fs

do you work at all?

[misty current]

nopers

[tired inlet]

if so do you get good hours

😢😢😢

[misty current]

i have internship coming up tho

rn just grinding for next summer

[digital bear]

sink in a cabinet is crazy work

[misty current]

marshall mcintire is closer, pretty much comes down to where you want to work (usc places better out west obviously) and how much you care about the other things. and cost ofc

[tired inlet]

what are these options.

[digital bear]

box

[misty current]

thats the usc dorm experience

[tired inlet]

i really want to research this but that’s too much commitment for a maybe school

[digital bear]

lowkey bigger than my room at home

[misty current]

all the dorms look like that

[tired inlet]

naur

[misty current]

are u in yet

ea

[tired inlet]

nah i applied rd

[misty current]

fair enough

so did i

[tired inlet]

my rural area better give me that app boost 🥹

[misty current]

only because i forgot to submit ea

[tired inlet]

oh same

but i had some future ecs and apparently ea doesn’t allow updates

i also liked that the rd deadline was super far compared to most colleges

[misty current]

hot take but i really feel like if you are letting aos know about something you did in like december before apps just for the sake of apps it never ends well

[digital bear]

damn gender inclusive housing

[tired inlet]

but like

[digital bear]

i don't wanna deal with someone who has like shitton of beauty and makeup products

[tired inlet]

senior spike 😢😢

[misty current]

XD

i was in cargar last year which is technically gender inclusive

i just didn't see that many ppl like that bc half the athletes live there

[digital bear]

fuck can i waive this

[misty current]

but that's also bc i think only 1% of usc population is lgbt

[misty current]

no

i wish

i had to pay that this morning 💔

[digital bear]

https://tenor.com/view/goofy-ahh-dog-goofy-ahh-dog-ndby-gif-26867437

imma do the rest of this shit tmrw

fml

damn roommate

i don't know anyone

rip

[indigo horizon]

how does usc STILL need more finaid docs

[digital bear]

Its nonstop bro

[mellow path]

and the portal is so ass too...

[flat shale]

I literally submitted everything in december got accepted EA and they still didn't give me my offer 😭

[digital bear]

Theres the estimate tho right

Thats probably pretty accurate

[indigo horizon]

they asked my parents for a form signature and theyre sending it to the irs to be audited ?????

i got deferred bruh how in depth is this process

[flat shale]

lol they asked for me to sign a form

then i tried to

and it went away

💀

cus i looked at it earlier and it was there

fml

[indigo horizon]

wtf

[indigo horizon]

mind you they asked for it yesterday when i already sent them 10 other forms before the ea deadline

[flat shale]

idek

[indigo horizon]

so annoying

[flat shale]

cus it said they wanted me to sign 4652

but i cant

💀

so tf

they js dont need iut..

[flat shale]

crazy

[indigo horizon]

i thibk it gets sent to your parents??

[flat shale]

but it showed up in my portal

udk

[indigo horizon]

they needed a form signed in my portal too but it was actually sent to my premts

parents

[flat shale]

ohh fr..

oh i found it

[gaunt hawk]

did anyone else apply for american popular culture / or narrative studies

i can't tell if theyre selective/impacted programs coz theres little info on them

[unreal mica]

USC doesn’t have impacted majors! All acceptance rates are relatively the same across majors

[gaunt hawk]

can i dm you a question?

[unreal mica]

yes!

[flat shale]

need decisions rn

imagine they say sike + release them the 14th

🙏

[unreal mica]

they wont hahah

[flat shale]

😿

one cam dream

[flat shale]

Nope nothing

It just says "in review"

[digital bear]

No estimate yet?

[flat shale]

No 😭

[digital bear]

I turned in my stuff real late and got an estimate next day

[flat shale]

They asked for like my entire life story

Every time I submitted smth it asked for smth else

[digital bear]

Ong bruh

[flat shale]

And still didn't even get me my estimate w everyone else's

😭

[digital bear]

Theyre building ur 10000 piece finaid puzzle

[flat shale]

Yea probs 💀

I also kinda have unique circumstances so

[strong monolith]

if it makes you feel better im a continuing student and they asked for my parents' marriage certificate lol

but if you guys get in you should totally pull up to explore s.c. bc i will be there w the band

[muted sentinel]

Thats a thing? 💀

Idek if my parents have one lmao

[strong monolith]

yes lol its legal documentation of your marriage

if your parents were legally married/file taxes joinly then they have one

but i wasnt asked for it last year so you shouldnt have to worry about it rn lol

[misty current]

what are yalls thoughts on don toliver

asking for a friend

[mellow path]

love him

he came a couple months ago

[opal frigate]

He's fire

[misty current]

hmm

see ive never heard of this guy but he's headlining springfest this year

might have to actually think abt going then 🤔

[scarlet matrix]

you’ve what

[opal frigate]

should listen to him first

to see if you like him

[scarlet matrix]

go to usc guys

[proven juniper]

no wayy

now I gotta get in fr 😭

[strong monolith]

rare concerts committee w

i need to join them tho

[cedar dock]

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/03/12/usc-raises-tuition-again-bringing-total-attendance-costs-to-nearly-100000/#:~:text=Tuition has increased about 5,than %2410%2C000 since the pandemic.&text=Summary by AI.,now costs at least %2473%2C260.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/sony-music-sues-university-southern-california-over-social-media-ads-2025-03-12/?utm_source=reddit.com

[young storm]

WHAT

HELLO DEFO GO

oh my gosh I should’ve applied dawg 😭😭😭🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️💔💔

[cedar dock]

Another day, another two giant Ls for USC 😒

[misty current]

its ok we have don toliver

🙂

[cedar dock]

Nvm make that 3

[misty current]

also im going to pete carroll's class tmrw

[misty current]

wait how is this

an l

apparently this guy is super good

but i wouldn't know

[cedar dock]

Maybe not for some folks, but his kind of music is the only kind I can't stand

Over-autotuned mumble rap

[misty current]

ah gotcha

i'm not much of a mumble rap person either

[unreal mica]

im so excited

alr registered

[strong monolith]

you dont even go here tho so why would you care whos playing at springfest lol

[strong monolith]

how is it sold out already

[misty current]

wait its sold out already??

[unreal mica]

so i fear i am actually in tech during springfest so like if you want my ticket ill give it to u

[strong monolith]

LMAOOOOO

i would love that

[unreal mica]

you can pretend to be me LMFAO

[strong monolith]

literally me missing green day both times they were in la bc of rehearsal

[cedar dock]

Thank god for that—broke ahh school

[strong monolith]

what an odd thing to say

especially when the conscerts committee is a student-run org

[vale rain]

https://tenor.com/view/lazer-dim-700-tony-dim-trap-so-old-gotta-run-out-the-house-when-i-play-my-music-gif-17633248971837099644

[cedar dock]

🤭

[cedar dock]

I'm more calling the school broke for the 5% tuition spike they announced earlier + the new multimillion dollar lawsuit against them than the contents of a concert I won't be attending, to be fair

[misty current]

plus apartment plan

plus that books thing that came out the other day

(that probably just exists so they can remove the books line item from the coa to keep it below $100k)

[strong monolith]

i mean the books thing is like. the one good thing the admin has done recently

one of my friends in engineering has paid almost 1k for her textbooks this year

$260/sem is a lifesaver

[misty current]

it's probably good for some people

but i definitely paid less than $100 for books this sem

ye to each their own i suppose

[strong monolith]

i mean you can opt out of it

ive only paid like $50 the entire year

i will dog on this school when they make bad decisions but the textbooks fee is genuinely great

[strong monolith]

the books line item is still on the coa page lol

[misty current]

well the more you know

good for admin then

[strong monolith]

rare usc trustees w

[cedar dock]

And also the price increase to the meal plan for on-campus upperclassmen housing

[misty current]

ya thats the apartment plan thingy

if they make me buy that apartment plan for this summer in cng i will actually lose my mind

[strong monolith]

ngl the apartment plan isnt as bad as i though itd be

[misty current]

really

[strong monolith]

its 120 meal swipes that you can use at dining halls and tcc

[misty current]

it does mean u have to eat more at dining halls tho

or tcc

[strong monolith]

and like $50 in dining dollars

[misty current]

my roommate vows to never step into a dining hall again once we move in next year

off campus

[strong monolith]

i enjoy the dining halls idk

[misty current]

ye they're not that bad

some people are just like that

[strong monolith]

when i have free saturdays sometimes ill just spend the entire day there doing schoolwork

[misty current]

that guy cooks some mad stuff tho

like beef wellingtons

[cedar dock]

Sounds nice!

[misty current]

apparently they are good

lol

[misty current]

we'll probably do a group cooking thing before finals

yooo those look fire

[tulip ice]

The time I made beef Wellington at usc

[tulip ice]

Ya lowk was gud

[misty current]

bit under for my liking

but

looks good

[tulip ice]

Thx first time making it

This was last semester

[strong monolith]

i love my kitchen i just have no time to cook < / 3

[cedar dock]

Yumm omg

[unreal mica]

yall arent using free pdfs for your textbooks?? rookie mistakes

[strong monolith]

me when almost all of my textbooks are in the public domain

sda moment

[vale rain]

thats colleges generally

[vale rain]

fr, who pays for pdfs

[misty current]

ya i've been doing that

[unreal mica]

lol at this point in my career its just me and scribd like this 🤞🏻

[misty current]

it's just that the accounting professors make you buy the book or else you can't access homework

[strong monolith]

i dont even have scribd lol i just use archive.org or anna's archive

wait kiley did you have heinrich for 225

[unreal mica]

nah i had lori fisher

reina is goated tho

[strong monolith]

bro im fighting for my life

shes so nice shes just not a good prof

[scarlet matrix]

fr that one website that stores and archives pdfs is the goat

apparently saying its name is illegal here

[unreal mica]

yeah you just gotta remember that this is like her phd so its like her special interest LOL

[unreal mica]

YEAH I WAS WARNED FOR SAYING IT LOL

[scarlet matrix]

it just autodeletd and i was like okie not tryna get into beef

[strong monolith]

i have never been more jealous of people than those in finbergs class rn lol

[strong monolith]

i want to know < / 3

[scarlet matrix]

the website that the colleen hooover fans took down

[unreal mica]

225 sucks for everyone ngl, it’ll be okay tho

[unreal mica]

BYE

[strong monolith]

bruh i have to do well in this class to get aaa bc of [REDACTED] dragging down my gpa last sem

[unreal mica]

so silly goofy

i would say complain to sergio but that aint gonna get you anywhere either sooo

[strong monolith]

the way we had an entire email thread about it and then when i was like "dude this straight up isnt true" he stopped emailing me and sent an email w sergio CC'd that referred to it as "the confusion" instead of him being wrong

"Because of the confusion regarding your absences, I’ve adjusted the score in the preparation category of your crew assignment, bringing your grade up to a B- and I think that is generous."

negating the fact that i had an A in the class before

[dense junco]

same, new plan doesn't seem too bad especially as someone who doesn't cook

[misty current]

first thing my econ prof talked about in class today is to not sign up for the book thingy 😂

[strong monolith]

jokes on him we're automatically enrolled

[strong monolith]

i mean i feel like it isn’t that bad for the amount you get

tbh the old plan was kinda shitty in comparison

yea it was less expensive but the value was also much lower

[sturdy coral]

When does RD come out?

[opal frigate]

We're just as clueless as you bud... They said by April 1st on the portal but we'll see

[umbral lance]

theyre revealing the date tmrw

[round smelt]

guys does the RD date when revealed, also apply to the portfolio majors like in sca?

[unique steppe]

i would imagine it does

[round smelt]

ok thanks !!

[strong monolith]

yes

[misty current]

probably

[strong monolith]

it does lol

[round smelt]

yayyy thanks

[strong monolith]

np!! i was also in a portfolio major so i understand the struggle lol

[round smelt]

dude I’m so nervous 😭😭😭 I heard that you have to get into usc and then the specific college dyk if that’s true??

it’s my dream schoolll

[strong monolith]

yes, for portfolio programs you have to be admitted academically and artistically!

if you have a non-portfolio major for your second choice then you can be admitted just academically too

[round smelt]

thanks sm for the help :)) would u say usc is worth it for the student loans if finaid doesn’t work out ??

legit toured a few months back and i js knew its the perfect fit the campus is so pretty

[strong monolith]

it really depends how much youd have to take out and your other options for schools

i wouldnt worry about that right now

[round smelt]

true true okok

thanks sm!

[strong monolith]

np!!

[misty current]

yall get that helicopter email

i wonder what the movie is

[strong monolith]

maybe it’s a promo for something?

[finite mica]

who excited for decision date reveal

[mellow path]

what time are they gonna announce it?

[brazen flower]

i think they might post it around 3:30 or 4:00 EST since that’s when they posted the post announcing the date release

i’m so worried though because i accidentally sent them all my SAT scores including my most recent SAT which is my second lowest

[glacial flare]

if MIT gave me full ride I'd still choose USC does that make me insane

[misty current]

no

[unique steppe]

perhaps slightly

[misty current]

only here can you get to shake hands with pete carroll and jason sudeikis

sitting in a class

[mellow path]

Mit isn't for everyone

[glacial flare]

I sorta meant MIT as a conceptual generalization for any hypsm and etc.

[misty current]

well hypsm etc isn't for everyone either

[digital bear]

ur parents prob look at you like ???

[misty current]

my parents?

i didnt get into any of them jokes on you

[digital bear]

wait my reply didn't go through

i was replying to thirust

https://tenor.com/view/magi-aladdin-gif-12742313

misclick

that adds more context

[scarlet matrix]

supposedly for 911

[pale drift]

so the rd results date hasn't been announced yet?? it's the 14th already 🙂

[warped bramble]

In 6ish hours

[warm token]

Usc is a day before ivys

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHL_ddFTMZN/?igsh=MWptd2VicmtiYTMxZQ==

mods

[daring loom]

USC RD Decision Date

Wednesday, March 26
@everyone

[gaunt hawk]

😊🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

Good luck yall

[final steppe]

oh damn bet

[little folio]

oh wow

[daring loom]

Can’t believe I had notifs on and didn’t get this

Also feel free to ping me next time

[warm token]

Okieeeee

[dire pecan]

who they think they r bruh jjst release it

[unborn quiver]

That’s a lifetime away bro

[warm token]

😭😭😭

[misty current]

ooh the 26th ok ok

good luck to you all

[brazen flower]

march 26 is like 8 months away ughhh

[mellow path]

why is it so late this year UGHGHGH

[unreal mica]

i fear it is actually normal time 😭

[misty current]

it was 3/24 my year it's unfortunately normal territory

[strong monolith]

now why am i doing a saturday morning event three days after decisions

[flat shale]

usc lazy asf

wtf

[strong monolith]

wdym

[flat shale]

they could drop rn

but their ahh wanna edge us

holy

[onyx trellis]

is it hard tro transfer to usc marshall

i regret not applying

[mellow path]

i think its harder than the other schools

but manageable

according to what i read online

[misty current]

if you mean internal transfer yes it's possible

when i did it you needed an a in econ 351 and a 3.7 GPA

[warped bramble]

was the A slight

[digital bear]

26 is so weird

Yall were speculating fridays

So i assumed it would be 21 or 28

Wtf is this 26

A whole ass wednesday

[flat shale]

Kms

I got a bum ass scholarship

"Directors"

I knew I flopped that interview but like 😭

[misty current]

what does slight mean

[tulip ice]

No it’s pretty okay

[onyx trellis]

is it better to go to cc oos or go to my state college to try and transfer

im not from cali

[tulip ice]

Doesn’t matter cuz it’s a private

[onyx trellis]

okay

i just heard that usc accepts alot of ccc transfer

[tulip ice]

We indeed do

[onyx trellis]

but that's also cuz a lot of ccc people apply probs

and they're more qualified

[onyx trellis]

is it cuz of preference or

cuz they have transfer agreements with them too

[tulip ice]

Eh not really. I’ve met a lot of transfers that weren’t cc,like uwash, Emory, cwru, ucr

[onyx trellis]

okay

thx for giving me faith

[tulip ice]

Ya np.

[warped bramble]

Oh my bad, it means easy

[strong monolith]

i mean there is a preference for california cc transfers bc they have articulation agreements with all of the california community colleges since all california residents get two years free of cc

but theres a ton of transfers in general

[digital bear]

Better than nothing ngl

[flat shale]

Did u get one

[digital bear]

No

[flat shale]

Wait did u get the interview

[digital bear]

No

[flat shale]

Ohh ok

[misty current]

351 is considered to be the hardest class in the marshall business core

[warped bramble]

Ah interesting

[misty current]

i found it easy enough, not the easiest class ive taken but definitely not the hardest

but that might be because im an econ major so the 351 learning curve was probly much less steep for me compared to marshall people

[cedar dock]

LMAO this is crazy

It sounds like they practically halved the number of merit scholarships given???

[flat shale]

This made me feel better about getting fucking "directors" scholarship

[cedar dock]

HELP they literally invented that scholarship type this year just to swindle the folks they brought in to interview 😭

The way the 6k a year scholarship barely even covers the difference of their annual price hike

[flat shale]

Thats what I assumed but like I thought it was just me cause I flopped the interview at least it happened to a lot of others too 😭

[flat shale]

Literally like

At least I get McCarthy I guess 🙄 🙄

[digital bear]

Mccarthy is fire tho

[cedar dock]

You do?

Well that's a neat perk at least!

[misty current]

ye i saw this on the reddit

some of these changes man

...

hey at least football recruiting is going well

[tulip ice]

Idgaf they destroyed my pickleball and tennis courts

Fck football

[misty current]

yo arent those getting moved

when they rebuild the baseball stadium

[tulip ice]

Nah they fcking destroyed that shit

I can’t even play tennis or pickle for free now

Lowk pmo

[misty current]

wait you have to pay

to use marks

can't you just go there when there aren't games

[tulip ice]

Ya it’s annoying

[tulip ice]

Nah cuz it’s locked

[misty current]

fuck them

unfortunate

[flat shale]

Yea it said in the email they sent me

[cedar dock]

That's nice!

[strong monolith]

let’s not use derogatory terms

[cedar dock]

Huh?

OH!

[cedar dock]

I uh

Didn't realize, sorry

Didn't mean it derogatorily, just meant it as "to cheat someone" 😭

[misty current]

live and learn

but ur right tho

folt haters getting their moneys worth before she leaves in like 2 months

[strong monolith]

what an odd thing to say

[cedar dock]

FR

I have a feeling it's not gonna get any better with her out of office

[misty current]

fact is usc has a lot of things going for it

but

a lot of the bad things are rearing their heads rn yk

[cedar dock]

Oh yeah naturally! Academically it's honestly kinda underrated

[misty current]

except for football

thats going well

[cedar dock]

Top business program, top communications program, top film program, strong theater, strong engineering, strong CS

It has a similar spread and quality of majors to Northwestern tbh—a school ranked 20 spots higher

[misty current]

la is also so much better than evanston

hot take

[cedar dock]

Oh yeah for sure

Chicago feels roughly equivalent to LA though

[misty current]

depends on industry

[cedar dock]

Maybe a bit worse or better depending on what you're after, but on a similar tier

[misty current]

ya

[cedar dock]

Like

[misty current]

but la weather clears

every other city

[cedar dock]

The only thing holding USC back as a school

Is their administration

[misty current]

lawsuits

[cedar dock]

Well yeah, but that's kinda at least partially a result of the administration 😭

[misty current]

yeah i gotchu

[pastel walrus]

ugh I lost consideration for the presidential/trustee scholarship and only got offered 6k

I mean that’s definitely generous but for usc it’s like pity money I’m so disappointed with myself

[pastel walrus]

help me too

matt can I ask how your interview went

[flat shale]

Oh I lowkey flopped

But i saw ppl saying that everyone who gets interviewed gets presidential or trustee

But ig this year they had budget cuts 💀

Hbu

[pastel walrus]

I know it’s so unfortunate :(

and why was the housing deposit $60 like bruh

[flat shale]

Omg I still needa fill that out

[pastel walrus]

my interview was okay I mean they were all smiling but maybe it was just a facade lol

[flat shale]

I feel like mine was hella awkward

[pastel walrus]

I mean I read people’s past experiences

[flat shale]

Well now ik to put McCarthy first ig

[pastel walrus]

they said it was awkward but they still got presidential or even trustee

I can’t believe they slashed the scholarship recipients guhh

[flat shale]

Exactly that's what I thought too

Ugh

And all the other good schools rejected me today so like

I'm prob stuck paying almost full USC tuition

😍

[pastel walrus]

literally.

you’re fully committed?

[misty current]

dont go at that point

if it's 70k total or something

[flat shale]

No but

It's my top choice

[pastel walrus]

it WAS my top choice too lol

[flat shale]

I don't like the other schools I got into that much 😭

[misty current]

only a few programs are worth shelling out the extra $ for

imo

[flat shale]

Wait I got a full ride to some places so this is prob stupid

Ugh

[misty current]

but it does depend on where

yeah if you got a full ride somewhere

[flat shale]

Rutgers

[misty current]

what school?

[flat shale]

But eughhhh

[misty current]

what for

[flat shale]

I'm in state

Engineering

Chem engineering

[misty current]

ooh thats interesting

[strong monolith]

i mean can you afford usc

[flat shale]

They didn't even give me my financial aid estimate for usc yet though

[misty current]

yeah tbh if you're paying close to sticker and you have to take out like $200k viterbi is not going to be worth it

ah well wait for that then

but

if you're paying anything close to full here no way

[flat shale]

They gave it to most ppl apparently so idk why

[misty current]

for viterbi

[pastel walrus]

did you hear if anyone got the bigger scholarships or did they not come out yet?

[flat shale]

I mean like yea my brother goes to nyu stern

[strong monolith]

it’s bc they have to calculate it with your scholarship

[flat shale]

Ohh ok

It's gonna be like the same 😭

[strong monolith]

if you don’t have to go to grad school and your family can afford it then like. i would go

[flat shale]

I'm thinking to get a job after undergrad and then like they can pay for my grad school right

For engineering is that how it works

[strong monolith]

it depends on the company you work for

if you don’t need to go to grad school i wouldn’t rush lol

[flat shale]

True I think most get a job after undergrad tho

Even if they don't do grad at all

[strong monolith]

ik a grad student in robotics who’s 27 and didn’t have to take out any loans bc he just worked for five years after undergrad and saved up enough to go to grad school

he didn’t need to go, he just wants to do research lol

[flat shale]

Oh yea lowkey im only going if i have to

[misty current]

that changes things then

[flat shale]

But to each their own

[misty current]

maybe you could actually go

here

[strong monolith]

i mean tbh viterbi has great job placement

ik a civil engineering senior who had an offer in boston since last summer that she just turned down bc she got an even better one in la

[flat shale]

Ooh ok

[misty current]

yeah we lowkey have a feeder going on to la28 bc the guy doing transportation went to usc

and hes hiring a bunch of usc students rn

so you will be fine career wise if you put in the work

[strong monolith]

la28 mentioned🤤

[cedar dock]

I've heard of this happening to 7 people, I've seen 2 presidential scholars, and 0 trustee scholars so far... yikes

[misty current]

yeah i went to their hq the other day

so cool

yall will see me volunteering in 3 years from now no cap

[cedar dock]

You're not alone, Nor, at the very least! Don't think it's anything you did! 💙

[pastel walrus]

eek very interesting

[strong monolith]

i mean only about 100 people get trustee, it’s not like it was that popular before

[cedar dock]

Ughh I feel you so much rn 😭😭

[flat shale]

Oh wow

[cedar dock]

Yeah, but they also announced yesterday that they're taking fewer trustee scholars this year

[flat shale]

They shoulda told us this before

[cedar dock]

Ik

[flat shale]

😭

[cedar dock]

Ngl I feel swindled on y'all's behalf 😭

They did you dirty stringing you along with the interviews and not even giving you deans

There was legit zero indication they'd do that till yesterday

[misty current]

honestly what annoys me so much about all this

[umbral lance]

f usc

uscuck

[misty current]

is all the stuff happening in dc

[umbral lance]

fsc

[misty current]

with the new cmapus

[misty current]

have you been lurking here listening to this whole convo and then now you decide to type this

really

[strong monolith]

it’s a difference of like 3% and 4%

[umbral lance]

nah i saw yall got swindled so i felt the compulsion to say that on their behalf

[cedar dock]

It's a difference of like 3% and 12%

[strong monolith]

dude

8000 people get into usc

[warped bramble]

Whats goin on

[strong monolith]

that’s not how stats work

[cedar dock]

They brought in 450 interviewees, 100 got trustee last year

This year, it's more like 50, if that

[strong monolith]

and a lot of presidential scholars are in schools that have december 1 deadlines and don’t find out they have a scholarship until after RD is released

[misty current]

https://today.usc.edu/new-usc-capital-campus-washington-dc/

[strong monolith]

you’re kind of sampling from a largely confirmation-biased pool

[cedar dock]

Dude

[warped bramble]

Oh yeah

[cedar dock]

Usc literally said

There was significant merit aid cutbacks this year

[strong monolith]

you said nobody you know got a trustee scholarship

[digital bear]

I wish i got some scholarship moneys raaaaah

[cedar dock]

This is the first year they've given 6k scholarships to interviewees

[strong monolith]

a lot of trustee scholarships are given with december 1 deadline schools

[unborn gale]

my nmsq money 😔

[strong monolith]

that is confirmation bias

[misty current]

i mean that can be true

but the director scholarship thingy when before it was 25% tuition

can also be true

[cedar dock]

It's not confirmation bias

[digital bear]

Thank gyat for finaid

[cedar dock]

It's literally confirmed info

[misty current]

real

[strong monolith]

dude you can send this article as many times as you want that does not change the fact that december 1 deadline schools have a lot of trustee scholarships

[misty current]

morning trojan is speculative at best let's be clear

not the most quality reporting sometimes

[strong monolith]

do you know what confirmation bias is

[cedar dock]

I mean the fact that we've already seen them reduce the dean scholarships to 6k scholarships is telling enough

The director scholarship flat out didn't exist before this year

[misty current]

yeah that is my opinion

but what can you do

[flat shale]

Yea what I didn't even know it was a option to get that low of a scholarship

[misty current]

obv most scholarships are not out yet as quinn was saying

bc its portfolio majors that get those a lot

[cedar dock]

And that doesn't change the fact that students are getting lower scholarship amounts overall

[strong monolith]

3/8 people in my major and year have trustee lol

[misty current]

yeah that's fair right

but the mere existence of the 6k

in merit interviews is like

weird

[flat shale]

They shoulda just gave us all deans

[strong monolith]

i’m not saying that the 6k isn’t weird

[misty current]

since before the threshold was 25% tuitoin

[cedar dock]

That's a 14k decrease

[flat shale]

And if tuition gets more expensive

[misty current]

oh do you think there are going to be more trustees out in next few weeks than the 6ks?

[flat shale]

When*

[misty current]

thats fair

[strong monolith]

i’m just saying that pointing to the fact that nobody you know got a scholarship that only 100 people get isn’t really indicative of much

[flat shale]

6k is flat but 25% would've increased

😭

[strong monolith]

yea everyone in sda i know with a scholarship has presidential or trustee

[cedar dock]

I'm in group chats with around 500 EA students

Not one has said they've gotten trustee

[cedar dock]

500 ea students is literally almost a sixth of the total number admitted

[strong monolith]

you’re ignoring the fact that there are swaths of students eligible for scholarships who don’t find out their decision for almost two weeks

[misty current]

and a lot of those students get scholarships too

like % wise i bet more sda sca people have scholarships than dornsife or something

[digital bear]

There are group chats?

[cedar dock]

I'm not saying they're not giving any trustee scholarships, but if they've cut the amount of NMSF scholarships, and cut the amount that the trustee scholars finalists get—that's setting a precedent

[cedar dock]

Really? I'd have figured it'd be the other way around—specifically with SCA

[strong monolith]

you have to be academically and artistically admitted into portfolio schools

[cedar dock]

These scholarships exist to entice students to enroll, I don't think extra incentives are needed as much for the #1 film school in the country vs. a decent but not incredible arts and sciences college

[strong monolith]

you clearly don’t know how artistic admissions work lol

[cedar dock]

And how do they work?

[misty current]

once you see the quality of sda/sca

even thornton

it makes sense

[strong monolith]

they admit very small classes

[misty current]

a lot of roski too

[cedar dock]

I mean

I'm in SCA

[misty current]

ehhh

not rly

[strong monolith]

you’re in marshall

[misty current]

yeah

[digital bear]

Can i secretly make a small pond tub hidden in a secret spot on usc campus

[misty current]

it's not the same

[digital bear]

Or will i get expelled

[cedar dock]

It's a joint degree as of 2 years ago

[misty current]

like a koi pond

[cedar dock]

And it's a sub 5% acceptance rate program

[strong monolith]

you didn’t go through the artistic application process

[misty current]

administratively it's marshall

[digital bear]

More small like a guppy pond

[misty current]

bottom line

and the app process for bca is nowhere near the theater or acting or game art stuff

bc there's no portfolio

or audition if you're thornton

[cedar dock]

Oh yeah, that very much is true, IK that

But my point is

The scholarships are incentives for top students—students that'll likely get into better schools than USC—to come to USC

There's literally no other reason to give these scholarships

[strong monolith]

these programs take very few students and operate on a scale so small that they need about 50-75% of their admitted students to enroll or else the major is at a large financial deficit because arts programs are incredibly expensive to run. that’s why most great programs are at R1 institutions because the schools can afford to run them. usc doesn’t have a waitlist so they can’t rely on that. they need students to enroll and the best way to make sure of that is to give them money

[cedar dock]

And if someone's putting in the effort to prepare a whole five minute short film or an original 10 pages of script or what have you to the top film school in the country—the odds are it's probably their first choice already

[strong monolith]

no

thats how the process is for every school

[cedar dock]

The only other undergrad programs which cut even close to SCA's value as a film program are UCLA (a much smaller major) and NYU (which appeals to a completely different market)

[strong monolith]

you’re talking to someone who is in a fine arts major, who went through the application process, who knows how these programs do admissions because i’m now helping with new students

[strong monolith]

and?

thats still the film school application process

for every school

regardless of their rank

because you need to show the ability to make films to get into film school

[pastel walrus]

aww that’s so sweet thank you for saying that

but I do feel like I could’ve done way better now

I think that feeling will always be natural though

[cedar dock]

And there's half a dozen theater programs better than USC

SDA is incredible, but SCA is the undisputed champion of its industry

[misty current]

there's always something

keep your head up

[flat shale]

Same 😭

[cedar dock]

SDA might want to give scholarships to dissuade a student from Northwestern, Yale, Carnegie Melon, Columbia, NYU, or UCLA

Meanwhile SCA is only competing for students with two of those schools

[strong monolith]

you’re really indicating that you don’t know much about theatre programs because several of these only have MFAs

and usc’s MFA in acting is free

as well as yale

[cedar dock]

I admittedly don't know as much about the theater admissions—but I do about film

[strong monolith]

and sda is massive in terms of working in the film industry. it is in fact the #1 choice for many people who want to work in film and television. you’re speaking about something you really do not understand

[cedar dock]

But yale offers undergrad theater, Northwestern does, carnagie Mellon does, Columbia offers it through Barnard, NYU does, and UCLA does

[strong monolith]

that’s not how it works lmfao

the people going for BFA programs do not care about BA programs at schools where they won’t be prioritized because of the MFA program

[cedar dock]

Makes sense—it's the same way for Film

A school like Northwestern is garbage for film undergrad but incredible for theater

[strong monolith]

northwestern is one of the only BAs in theatre that are comparable in outcome to BFAs

you’re trying to debate me about a process i spent four years preparing for and am now helping operate

[cedar dock]

I mean ultimately I wasn't trying to debate you on it—I was trying to comfort Nor on the fact that they didn't get a lot of merit aid by saying that I've seen a lot of students get ripped off like them, and you chose to start an argument

And now we're falling into a rabbithole back-and-forth about one stat from one part of the previous argument

And it's not really accomplishing anything on either side

So we might as well call it quits

[strong monolith]

i said that you not knowing anyone who received a trustee scholarship isn’t the most statistically accurate statement because a lot of trustee scholarships are given to admits from schools with december 1 deadlines

i said that as someone in a school with december 1 deadlines who knows many, many people with those scholarships

and you continued to debate me on it

[cedar dock]

And that—flat out wasn't even the relevant part of what I was saying to them, that was an offhand comment tacked on at the end

[strong monolith]

dude i’m not debating you about this

[cedar dock]

The important part is that, for the first time in history, Finalists are getting 6k when that was never even mentioned as an option

Which is flat-out true

The number of students getting a full ride, whether 50, 100, or 0, doesn't really change the fact that the bulk of students are getting a lot less aid than they were promised

[strong monolith]

not to sound like an asshole but nobody is promised a scholarship

[misty current]

yeah but usc handing out less is not a good thing

for the school

[strong monolith]

it’s not

[cedar dock]

The finalists getting interviewed historically have been, though

the minimum that students who did the interview process would get was always dean's

[strong monolith]

but framing it as usc taking money from students that was already promised to them isn’t accurate

[cedar dock]

And the students that were rejected from participating in the finalist round this year were given deans

And you can say what you want about confirmation bias and representative samples, but now 14 students with a 6k scholarship and zero with a dean's scholarship is a telling pattern

[strong monolith]

people were offered the deans scholarship when decisions came out

[cedar dock]

Yes, exactly

Yet the students supposedly more competitive students ended up getting less than those students

[strong monolith]

i don’t really see what this has to do with the concept that people were “promised” scholarships

[cedar dock]

If someone comes in, hearing that historically, everyone who has gotten an interview has gotten the dean's scholarship, and they come out of the interview with a worse scholarship—it's natural they might blame themselves

By sharing with them, "no, don't worry, you're not the only one who got this lesser amount"—they don't feel as bad about their own ability, or about how their interview went (which they shouldn't, they're still wildly successful to have even gotten one in the first place)

[strong monolith]

yea so again i’m not understanding what that has to do with this

[misty current]

yo @strong monolith did you ban them

[muted sentinel]

Is there grade inflation? Cuz my friend said getting above a 3.5 is usually rlly difficult (she’s in a huge public uni though)

[misty current]

the marshall curve has gotten nicer past few years i think the average is 3.5 now

used to be 3

i think it's bc of the marshall dean being from wharton and just making it easier to get good grades

[muted sentinel]

So doing internal transfer from LSA to marshall is possible? I’ve been considering (not fully sure) switching to finance or accounting from biology. Ik usc is super competitive for those majors so not sure if its worth it even if i get accepted (like if i decide to switch is that feasible)

[warped bramble]

Bro probs left on their own

[misty current]

maybe

i wouldn't know

[misty current]

yeah i actually did it myself then switched back to las

[warped bramble]

Damn

[misty current]

the easier way would be to declare econ when you get here bc they take everyone and then transfer from econ

[muted sentinel]

Hmmm okay

[misty current]

just tell your advisor you want to transfer to econ, make a plan where you do 3 GEs and 351, then once the switch happens you can apply to marshall the next semester once you get 351 final grade

ez pz

[muted sentinel]

Got it

[muted sentinel]

What major r u now?

[misty current]

econ

lol

[coral hamlet]

usc is nex friday right

[muted sentinel]

u switched from econ to smth in marshall back to econ?

[misty current]

26th march

[misty current]

yes

biggest reason was i could finish bachelors in 3 years vs 4

among others

[coral hamlet]

oh 26th confirmed?

[misty current]

yes

[coral hamlet]

okay thanks

[muted sentinel]

Wait actually? I thought econ is typically considered more difficult n would take a full 4 years

Compared to majors like accounting

[round lake]

that guy was kinda annoying tbh

[misty current]

i'm in the ba which only has 46 major units

plus ge

marshall has a gazillion more

and imo the classes are not harder they actually cover less, it's just that they have a lot more theory than most of the marshall classes so people find it harder

that's just my opinion

of course everyone has their own thoughts

[misty current]

the marshall fin emphasis is 60 major units btw

the ba does have the foreign language requirement but i tested out of that which is why it's just 46 for me

[muted sentinel]

Makes sense, do yk if there is a huge difference between ba econ and bs in terms of internship opportunities/job opportunities?

[misty current]

uhh depends on industry

i can tell you i've had my internship for this summer since november

which is in finance, public markets am stuff

[muted sentinel]

wow

[misty current]

what are you looking at?

[muted sentinel]

Tbh idk yet, i used to be 100% sure about biology specifically research but recently i’ve been wanting to switch. And smth in the finance field looked interesting. I’m still trying to understand what opportunities r there if i switch

[misty current]

makes sense

you have the ib consulting pe vc

there's big 4 accounting tax stuff

there's markets which is like asset management (me), risk, s&t

wealth management

fp&a

a few of those it would definitely be better to have marshall bc network is pretty important but definitely not impossible

[muted sentinel]

This is what i’ve been looking as of now since i’ve spoken to some family members who r doing this. Ik IB isn’t for me. Have to look into the others

[misty current]

yeah i'm in the same boat i never wanted ib

i do know some people in big 4 rn who are accounting/fin

one guy is doing pe now but he was at deloitte last summer

leventhal is pretty good about careers and keeping you on top of the recruiting cycle i'd say

i'm an accounting minor so i do go to some of the stuff sometimes even if i'm not super interested in big4

[muted sentinel]

Thats nice, thought they’d restrict it to marshall students/accounting majors. So worst case scenario (i always plan for this) even if i can’t transfer into marshall its still a possibility to get good internships n jobs just might be limited to certain fields right?

[misty current]

i wouldn't say limited bc you can go into any of these fields as econ

it just might be harder bc network, no "marshall" keyword on your resume etc

[muted sentinel]

Fair

[misty current]

tbh i credit everything i know to a club i joined here and very little to econ vs buad fin

[muted sentinel]

Club name? If i get accepted i’ll try joining

[misty current]

https://www.gisusc.com/

i might be in that promo video that they have now

[muted sentinel]

Cool

[misty current]

did i just dox myself 😶

[muted sentinel]

Maybe lmao (as one of the many in the vid)

[misty current]

ok i just checked i am in the vid

but not as one of those getting interviewed

saved

but yeah i am in research now and rlly the things you learn sitting in watching some of these ib analysts nerd out about pitches is pretty crazy

[upper estuary]

do you know how often people get in for their alternate major

[misty current]

🙋‍♂️

idk the % but it's doable

[upper estuary]

okay sweet

if i get into dornsife for my alternate major but i had a major in marshall as my top choice, how easy is to transfer into marshall before the school starts

[misty current]

before classes idk

i'd imagine pretty hard

but once you start you can do the internal transfer i was just talking about it here

[upper estuary]

oh i see

[misty current]

^