University of Southern California (USC) (2025-2026)

[tender knot]

the only disadvantage it is uses local LLMs so less power

but you could just hook ts onto the chatgpt api or whatever

[fervent salmon]

cant you connect it to openrouter?

fk openai api

[tender knot]

yeah

[tender knot]

well I mean you can just use openrouter and use whatever backend you feel like

[fervent salmon]

my org I worked for at amazon has a budget for that

they havent rescinded my key lmaoooo

[left quartz]

Yk anything abt darktable? That was recommended to me as well

I’m mostly looking for tools to help with lighting and photo enhancements over anything too major so I think similar to Lightroom over photoshop. The most non Lightroom tool I use is occasional ai removal if smth is in frame

[fervent salmon]

still got the monthly $1k usage limit on it

I havent been using it tho to not get sus n shit

[tender knot]

lowk the tech behind cluely isn't that advanced

[slim dome]

Damn I got deferred

Unsurprisingly

[tender knot]

like you can make a FOSS option just to spite them

[fervent salmon]

its like how microsoft excel has open source alternatives

but ppl still want M365

cuz microsoft

literally microsoft has no moat at all

[tender knot]

I think you can't compare the two

[plain surge]

i have darktable and it has been hard to use

[fervent salmon]

google sheets will accept anything in the .xlsx format and convert it

[tender knot]

people will def take a free alternative to cluely no questions asked

[plain surge]

i definitely dont know how to use it as well but i can make what i want in VSCO color-wise quickly but cant figure it out in darktable'

[tender knot]

excel just has time in the market

[fervent salmon]

ive heard of it but never used it

[tender knot]

like everyone from the past gen will conflate spreadsheet and "excel sheet" lmao

[fervent salmon]

mostly phototheca, luminar neo, and wanted to buy something called Foto... idk the name

[tender knot]

its like how google and other search engines are on par nowadays but everyone uses google

[fervent salmon]

I use duckduckgo on phone and brave lmao

cuz i dont trust google w/ shit

[left quartz]

Do you use anything else in place of it?

[dense whale]

I GOT IN

[plain surge]

when im editing my photos i mostly edit in the main apple editor first then if i want to change my colors i use VSCO

[dense whale]

Why does discord not let me send a pic

[uneven prawn]

Does anyone know what percentage they defer

[tender knot]

no perms, people leak their names which is also an issue

[fervent salmon]

just boost the server

[plain surge]

it’s more for colors 😭😭 it doesn’t have the complexity of something like photoshop but this is raw vs editing in vsco

[fervent salmon]

and u will get it

[plain surge]

I can send it for you

[tender knot]

lmao

[plain surge]

wait what

[tender knot]

gg

[plain surge]

why does it say class of fall 2025 💔

ive been fooled

[dense whale]

💀💀💀💀

Yeah WE got deferred

[fervent salmon]

LMAO

[plain surge]

man u need to die 😭

[fervent salmon]

isnt it the entering class of fall 2026

[dense whale]

That’s the joke

[plain surge]

think REALLY hard

really really hard

[fervent salmon]

[plain surge]

and you might realize

[fervent salmon]

no its fall 2026

ive think about it

[shadow delta]

Might be the only kid who got rejected from usc early

😂😂

[small moth]

rejected?

[uneven prawn]

Aint shit funny mate

[small moth]

i thought they only defered ea

[uneven prawn]

80% i think

[small moth]

ohh

[dense kestrel]

Yall I have a question

[dense whale]

Someone’s on their period

[dense kestrel]

how are the acceptance rates at USC for domestic vs intl

[plain surge]

wait ppl can get rejected in ea????

[fervent salmon]

no they cant sadly

[plain surge]

?

[wild locust]

Half the mfs here are chinese intl fr

[fervent salmon]

im canadian so im the other half

[static bison]

show hello

[dense kestrel]

fml then ig

[uneven prawn]

Not a good time when i just got deferred💔

[plain surge]

yeah can we get proof

[dense kestrel]

Idk what went wrong tbh

[fervent salmon]

I cant compete against the chinese

[small moth]

gah twin

[fervent salmon]

they too tuff

literal sweats

[tender knot]

lowk the usc tuition feels like a scam tho

[fervent salmon]

academic tryhards

[tender knot]

like even with my 20k scholarship its like what

still 80k

[small moth]

dang

[tender knot]

like bro I ain't paying 80k for usc

[fervent salmon]

damn

[dense whale]

Yall get the chance to still be eligible for scholarships

[plain surge]

oh thatoneguy u got in????

[wild locust]

Your money is my money

Full pay students pay for meeee

[tender knot]

Nah i'm saying in general. I have guaranteed 20k from national merit

[fervent salmon]

lmfao feels like it

[wild locust]

Every student here and the endowment contributed more than a dollar to me

[plain surge]

oh okay sick

[quick blade]

😭

[tender knot]

no but like even with that

like that still can't justify 80k

[uneven prawn]

Blud come to this thread just to say that

[tender knot]

or sorry like almost 100k if you're full pay

[wild locust]

Do it for me

[tender knot]

like what

[fervent salmon]

bro is ragebaiting fullpay students

[wild locust]

This is communism for me

[haughty moth]

did anyone get in

[left quartz]

Hm I see

[left quartz]

A few on the pinned poll

[haughty moth]

nice

[left quartz]

Maybe I’ll look into luminar idk

[humble jewel]

not a terrible idea

They also could do EA for instate and EA for oos

Like gtech

[olive relic]

I think this may happen to me

[stray crag]

i js woke up from my SECOND nap how is ts chud not up yet

[autumn frost]

I ended up getting in

Hope to see you on campus next fall 🙂

[olive relic]

I’m praying for spring admit at least now

@left quartz the Etsy witch did NOT WORK

[left quartz]

So is luminar good for lighting and stuff id wanna fix stuff like this

I have a couple others on my actual camera just not on my phone

[next phoenix]

i got in!!

[prime ivy]

got into umich engineering but not usc engineering like what we sayin dawg

deferred

chopped cheddar

[haughty moth]

fire

if u have questions lmk

actually if any of u here have questions lmk i will do my best to answer 🙂

[haughty moth]

my friend you have michigan relax

[raw rapids]

weird

[prime ivy]

true but why they so picky

js read up online on ppls decisions

💔

[haughty moth]

wdym

[prime ivy]

results from others

[haughty moth]

eh maybe ur the statistical outlier

ann arbor is cool anyways

i need to go back to the big house

[raw rapids]

ohh shi mc

mb

[stray crag]

nooooo

[plain surge]

yo my opp got in

despite already getting into their ed

which was my ed

https://tenor.com/view/zadtwt-pinkpantheress-gagged-shocked-turning-head-gif-13930026580453081419

WE GOT TO GO.

[fervent salmon]

It should be good for that

Afaik it has a lot of tools

[olive relic]

same gil

girl

[olive relic]

end them

[wild locust]

They broke ed contract ?

Report ts frrrr

[jaunty echo]

I GOT IN!!!

[wild locust]

Where confetti

[plain surge]

i guess so

yeah they didnt withdraw their app

[jaunty echo]

Here

[plain surge]

that couldve been my spot 💔

CONGRATTSSSS

OMG

[jaunty echo]

Thank uuuuu

[plain surge]

https://tenor.com/view/traveller-usc-football-fight-on-trojans-gif-7728008565812537142

[quick blade]

This will be us in March!

[short gulch]

Your opp shoulda withdrawn… they’re taking your spot!!

[plain surge]

yes twin

[plain surge]

i feel bad cuz i barely know her shes truly not my opp im just very jealous of her 😭

but it couldve been my spot....

[short gulch]

LOL real. Still, withdrawing is th right thing to do

Ik ppl who withdraw their UCs after getting in somewhere else REA

[jaunty echo]

U guys will def get it in march👍🏻

[next loom]

Got in ea let’s go 🥳

[quick blade]

SCA here I come

[quick blade]

Congratulations!

[next loom]

Ty 🙏

[stray crag]

isn't the acceptance letter kinda chopped

why does it writhe and wiggle

like shawarma in scary shawarma stand

[jaunty echo]

Congrats 😍😍

[haughty moth]

grats

[vivid heart]

when will the merit scholarships rleease

[cosmic oracle]

I did the math there’s a 16 percent acceptance rate for ea

That’s higher than normal 10 percent

[wild locust]

Last year was wild

I think it was over 20

[cosmic oracle]

20 percent ?

[wild locust]

Yep

A lot more people in poll too

[cosmic oracle]

Look at this

Top gray box

[olive girder]

So I have a better chance applying RD?

[cosmic oracle]

Depends i think if you want merit aid u have to do ea

[haughty moth]

that seems off

this yr is 9.5%

last yr probably somewhere around there too

[cosmic oracle]

Oh I didn’t consider people who were rejected lol

I subtracted people who applied and who were defferd

lol

[toxic bone]

usc a bummy school

[upper rose]

lets go guys EA people wya

[proud vale]

not rly

u get 0 scholarships if u RD

[haughty moth]

^

well you get need aid

not merit

[proud vale]

wait

yea

mb

but still 0 aid for intl

🥀

[haughty moth]

do yall not get merit aid

[proud vale]

idk

but 0 fin aid

[haughty moth]

im pretty sure u get merit aid

i thought some ppl in honors college were intls

[proud vale]

isnt it merit scholarships

wait... is this the same thing?

[haughty moth]

well yeah i just call it merit aid

merit aid = scholarships

= merit scholarships

[proud vale]

yea but ig its like $10,000/y max

[haughty moth]

for intl

[proud vale]

yea

[haughty moth]

ah

but u do get the nicest housing

free i think

so rlly like $20k

[proud vale]

thats no where near 100k 😭

[haughty moth]

better than nothing

[proud vale]

yea ig

[haughty moth]

thats why i call it merit AID and not a merit SCHOLARSHIP

reality of things is $20k is not much

for that much tuition

its about to be $100k total coa next yr 😭

[proud vale]

my friends cousin just graduated from USC

and bro sold his house

[haughty moth]

no way

[proud vale]

to pay for the cost

😭

[haughty moth]

not worth

go to a cc and transfer bruh

there are like 3 career paths where its worth to go to ugrad straight out of hs

[proud vale]

exactly

[haughty moth]

for the other like 999

go to cc

[proud vale]

ikr 😭

he could've went to other uni and just transfer to USC

[wild locust]

Ts pmo

[haughty moth]

google usc first year profile bruh

[wild locust]

Birnkrant is so buns

[light moth]

mb i thought that was for the results that came out today

[haughty moth]

r u not mccarthy shrimp

i thought u were

[wild locust]

Go for parkside or mccarthy always chat

[haughty moth]

ea rate is 9.5% ill tell you that

[wild locust]

Im birnkrant

[light moth]

thanks

[wild locust]

Kiley scammed me

[haughty moth]

bruh birnk is great

wdym

[wild locust]

Its cold

[haughty moth]

it is

70 outside

[wild locust]

And moldy

[haughty moth]

i am wearing a t shirt

it cannot be that cold inside gang

[wild locust]

I got my hoodie

[lofty basin]

so how does one get deferred from usc but accepted to ut mccombs

[wild locust]

Luck and fit

[haughty moth]

mccombs is inferior to marshall

or u got unlucky or somethin idk

[wild locust]

What does marshall even do

[haughty moth]

business education for the future

whatever that means

[wild locust]

My hs classmate in marshall just posting acai bowls on her club stories smh

Why is student body so full of wealth

[toxic bone]

guys genuinely

no college is that worth it

where u have to sell a house, car, etc

[wild locust]

Aura

[karmic river]

HOLY AURA

[haughty moth]

usc being a last resort is crazy

my last resort was uc merced😂

[wild locust]

Yall dont got cc as last resort??

[haughty moth]

well i had usf full ride

so ig that was my real last resort

but u get the idea

[wild locust]

If it like that i had uc davis

[vagrant salmon]

theres no loci right

[toxic bone]

holy egoed bro just withdraw atp lmao if u don’t care that much and didn’t even know u applied

[toxic bone]

no

[lofty basin]

i have 0 intention of going but submitted the deferral reply 😜

[olive relic]

is deferral bad

[dense kestrel]

Yes

Deferral = soft rejection at usc

[olive relic]

oh fr?

[dense kestrel]

The rarely reject ea they just defer everyone

[lofty basin]

they dont reject any ea

either defer or accepted

[toxic bone]

and this is why usc needs to reject in EA

[autumn frost]

I think its so greedy of schools to defer everyone ea

[toxic bone]

genuinely there’s no purpose for doing this you’re just ruining the odds for everyone else

[toxic bone]

it’s just to protect their yield or wtv it is

[lofty basin]

no im not lol im letting people off the waitlist when i reject their offer

[wild locust]

Waitlist????

Usc dont got that

Its why we have spring admits

[toxic bone]

ru dumb

[wild locust]

Which is honestly a better system

[olive relic]

rwhy would u do that-

[lofty basin]

oh well, my point is the same amount is enrolling whether i accept or decline their offer

[toxic bone]

???

[olive relic]

what do thwy sprign admit for

[wild locust]

Technically yes but actually mo

[toxic bone]

this is why u got deferred bro im sorry that logic is so flawed

[wild locust]

Rd

Might be rng

It serves as a waitlist cuz they move spring to fall if someone who gets in for fall doesnt commit

[toxic bone]

idk bro

[wild locust]

Or someone withdraws

[toxic bone]

usc needs to refine

their ea ed shit

[wild locust]

But spring admits will eventually get to go

Its a free gap

College really should have a gap semester

Going straight into it lwk destroys mental health so much

[toxic bone]

but a gap serves like

idk what i would do

[wild locust]

People could have a part time job to gain experience, have an extended vacation, bum around at home

It would be so peak if i was spring

[toxic bone]

yeah highkey i should get a job

[wild locust]

But im a stinky ea admit

[toxic bone]

and stop being a bum doing school shit

and engineering nerd

[wild locust]

Usc also offers study abroad for that fall sem

[lofty basin]

here argue with chatgpt

[wild locust]

If ur spring

[olive relic]

i mean like

what gets u on it

[toxic bone]

the fact that u needed chatgpt to justify ur reasoning 😂😂😭

[lofty basin]

it stand on business though and at least i aint covering the fact that im using it

go ahead and counter argue chat gpt

[toxic bone]

bro if ur not gonna go to usc just withdraw why ru continuing to have them consider u

this doesn’t need chatgpt

it’s common sense??

[haughty moth]

you can just keep going and just see if you get in or not lmao

one student choosing deferral or not doesn't change it for the other students

so you might as well find out

[lofty basin]

yes thank you

and thank u chatgpt as well

[olive relic]

https://tenor.com/view/smallviiles-gif-26537158

[haughty moth]

this doesnt apply for ed

[wild locust]

I dunno

[toxic bone]

genuinely 0 point tho

[wild locust]

They dont publicize fr that fr

[toxic bone]

lmaooo

[olive relic]

idk if i have a chance

ugh

im so stressed

[paper trail]

Why tho?

[lofty basin]

for the love of the game tf

[toxic bone]

he’s gonna reply with chatgpt again

[lofty basin]

why do 2 gpa apply to harvard

[toxic bone]

they don’t

[lofty basin]

they most certainly do if they have a fee waiver

[haughty moth]

yall dont respect the love of the game

[toxic bone]

if u have a brain u wouldn’t

[haughty moth]

😂

[toxic bone]

😭😭

[paper trail]

You do you brother ✌️ 😂

[toxic bone]

deadass

[haughty moth]

okay that is probably not necessary

but sure

[olive relic]

why all the AI

tf is this

[toxic bone]

u just lost everything u built up with that ai image

[haughty moth]

yall are arguing over what lmao

someone seeing if they ultimately make it into usc

[lofty basin]

chatgpt built it up and its gonna lose it all

[toxic bone]

😂

[lofty basin]

hmmm which one should i choose

i like discord-energy, short and lethal

[autumn frost]

maddux rn:

[alpine belfry]

a2c's finest

[lofty basin]

so with ur logic popsmoke69 there is no point in applying to a safety school because u have 0 intention of going there

[toxic bone]

ur dragging it

continue watching ur caseoh im good off this

[lofty basin]

im going to bruno mars the 18th btw i see what ur listening to

[proud vale]

😂

[lofty basin]

im wearing caseoh merch as we speak btw

[proud vale]

im cryin 😂

[toxic bone]

?

[autumn frost]

folk I'm crine

[toxic bone]

dead didn’t remember asking

[toxic bone]

this the first person i’ve seen openly say they wear caseoh merch

😭😭

[twin thistle]

What a fucking blood bath

the second I got rejected I submitted mid year grades and their form thing

[jovial lava]

Will USC notify the prez and trustee scholarship recipients on the 30th or do they conduct interviews after?

[coarse remnant]

guys i got into dornsife! didn't even know decisions were coming out yesterday so it was a pleasant surprise haha

[paper trail]

congrats! That’s a huge accomplishment

[coarse remnant]

thank you!

[paper trail]

Unfortunately I got deferred lol

[coarse remnant]

i got in for health and human sciences and i lowkey think i blacked out when selecting that but we up

[paper trail]

but still feeling hope for RD

Gonna have to wait 3 months 😭

[coarse remnant]

nooo gl for RD though!! you got this

[haughty moth]

dornsife on top 🔥

[paper trail]

🔥 🔥

[paper trail]

Thank you!

[next loom]

Is getting into usc that hard guys. My friends lowkey hyping it up so much but I think it’s chill

[haughty moth]

take your elitism somewhere else bruh 9.5% acceptance rate is just chill??

[next loom]

It’s not that it’s just that I got like 10_ other schools I would rather go

But ye I understand

[autumn scroll]

"i got 11th place in the world in X but lowk is it that hard? id rather be 10th place or higher"

most stupid logic ive heard this year

[paper trail]

One google search will tell you otherwise so let’s stop rage baiting 😭

[short gulch]

Getting in to USC is definitely impressive, anything below a 10% acceptance rate is a shot in the dark. If you know a lot of people who got in, it may look “easy”, but in reality it’s a combination of them being lucky, and them working their asses off academically

[next loom]

Ye I agree lol mb if it seemed cocky

My school just full of sweats😭

[toxic bone]

u make a good point with the shot in the dark reasoning

i think a lot of students solely look at stats and ecs as the major factor behind admissions but in reality theres like 20 other factors u don’t have control over

[noble flame]

i agree bro

i have 36 act, usapho, and other shi but i have like 4 deferrals in a row rn

[autumn frost]

there's a person in my grade with harder course rigor, better gpa, better sat, and better ecs than me

I got in he didn't

it's all just luck

[noble flame]

im in ohio and no one got into usc from our school

7/7 deferred

and all of us have a sat at or above like 1540

some of us are asian but there were also some white and black students

[autumn frost]

I am the first person in five years to get into usc from my school

[noble flame]

and none of us got in

[autumn frost]

and I have very mediocre stats imma be honest

[noble flame]

it's kinda crazy because usc tends to just never accept anyone from our school

last yr we went 0-12

[autumn frost]

damn

my school's acceptance rate to usc is half of the national average

[noble flame]

5%

same

[autumn frost]

for reference we have a 25% acceptance rate to stanford

like thats just insane

[noble flame]

we have a 15% acceptance to harvard

[autumn frost]

damn

nice

[noble flame]

im just begging i get into mich/gt

[autumn frost]

I got deferred from Brown ED so if I get in rd that's prob one of the only schools I'd take over usc

[noble flame]

yea i also got deferred from cornell engineering

[autumn frost]

twins

[noble flame]

i got deferred from everywhere tho

like i got deferred from case western

idk what's going on

[autumn frost]

you prob got yield protected

I got into case but a lot of my stacked friends got deferred

[noble flame]

cornell engineering only defers like 15-20% from what i know

[autumn frost]

thats really good

you're in

fs fs

[noble flame]

how

dude im just begging i get into one of the state schools rn

[autumn frost]

no I'm just joking but you have a shot RD

[noble flame]

asian male for engineering

idk

[autumn frost]

I'm sure you're gonna get into somewhere good

asian male for biology I'm not much better

[noble flame]

like my honors are pretty good like usaco platinum and usapho

but it's so hard being an asian male for engineering

[autumn frost]

I don't have any notable awards at all

just like some regional science fair awards and coding/robotic competition stuff

no spikes or anything

[noble flame]

i mean u got usc tho

[autumn frost]

I genuinely have no idea how

I think it was my essays

[noble flame]

yeah my essays were lowk buns

[autumn frost]

I was quite proud of my personal essay/usc supplementals

[noble flame]

if i get deferred from gt and mich

ill have 7 defers

in a row

and if i get deferred from vandy ed2

[autumn frost]

hey that means you have more to open RD 🙂

[noble flame]

make it 8 defers

[quick blade]

I got deferred by one of my state schools

[autumn frost]

that's crazy

[quick blade]

I HATE NEW YORK

[noble flame]

it's so dumb how commonapp has a 20 school limit

i would've applied to like 25

if they didnt have a limit

[quick blade]

um

I applied to 24

😭

[noble flame]

u cant

through commonapp??

[quick blade]

no I’m being fr

[autumn frost]

uc prob?

[noble flame]

i also applied to 25 schools

but ucs+ut

[quick blade]

You just have to apply to all 20 first

[noble flame]

wait how do i add

[quick blade]

And email them explaining your reasons why

[autumn frost]

I applied to 17 in total

[noble flame]

wait actually

u can do that

is it too late now

[quick blade]

depends on deadlines

[autumn frost]

y'all are such gunners applying to so many schools

I kinda feel regret not applying to any more t20s

[noble flame]

oh wait

[autumn frost]

but then again my stats/ecs were kinda buns

[noble flame]

i can apply to ohio state

dude

u got usc

you're chilling

[haughty moth]

usc is better than half the t20s

lmao

[noble flame]

i feel like

you wouldn't be reacting this way

if you didnt get usc

like i think you should be extremely grateful because almost no one got in

[autumn frost]

that's true, I don't want to take it for granted

I am very appreciative of my situation

[noble flame]

are u situated in california?

[autumn frost]

washington, not seattle

[noble flame]

oh

[autumn frost]

omg I had no idea you could do that

[haughty moth]

wow til

[autumn frost]

my school limits our # of applications internally to 12 total

I had to appeal to apply to 17

[quick blade]

😭

idk if my counselor noticed i applied to 24

💀

[autumn frost]

they prob had to send your transcript n stuff lol

[quick blade]

they already sent those before

😭

i still need to do umich

[autumn frost]

T-T

wait umich deadline hasn't arrived?

[quick blade]

february 1st

[autumn frost]

omg

[noble flame]

lowk i should add ohio state

[autumn frost]

I should apply to umich

my counselor is gonna murk me tho

[haughty moth]

what's ur major

[quick blade]

im scared for usc

[quick blade]

why are you limited to 12 schools

[autumn frost]

bio/premed

[autumn frost]

apparently "applying to more schools doesn't mean you'll get in more places"

like wtf??? My CCs are on smtn

[quick blade]

that's dumb

😭

[haughty moth]

is michigan weather worth it for a slightly better program 🤔

[autumn frost]

that is the question

[quick blade]

cley which state are you from

[autumn frost]

washington not seattle

I don't affiliate myself with those sweats

bro they make our state's nmsqt qualifying score so high

I would have gotten national merit if I was in a better state

[haughty moth]

daytripping rn

[autumn frost]

that actually looks like the life

[noble flame]

istg i have beef with college board

[quick blade]

bro is driving

[noble flame]

i got 36 act but i got a 1530 sat

[autumn frost]

do you have a car?

[noble flame]

and a 1450 on psat

didnt qualify for nmsqt

[autumn frost]

I should have taken the act

[haughty moth]

disclaimer im shotgun

😂

[autumn frost]

literally everyone I know got a better score on the ACT than the SAT

[quick blade]

do usc students have good hygiene

[haughty moth]

depends who you hang out with

hit or miss

[autumn frost]

is the "university of spoiled children" myth a real thing

[noble flame]

ok im gonna email commonapp

and ask them to add ohiostate

@quick blade what did u put for the reasoning

[haughty moth]

sure

[quick blade]

im pretty sure you get an ai response after you send the email

[haughty moth]

also hit or miss but for example luxury cars are not uncommon

[quick blade]

then you explain

ill send a screenshot

[haughty moth]

my friends are not spoiled tho we just spent 20 mins debating on whether or not to buy trail mix

[autumn frost]

everything in the area is like hella overpriced tho right

[quick blade]

one of my reasons was because the schools weren't on scoir

[noble flame]

ohhh

[haughty moth]

yeah

thankfully i grew up in the bay so they were lowkey cheaper than what i was used to

otherwise i would lose my mind every day buying $4/dozen eggs

[autumn frost]

wtf that's crazy prices

T-T

[quick blade]

i thought that was normal

😭

[haughty moth]

well normal for bay area

[autumn frost]

I'm actually not that well versed on egg prices

[noble flame]

isnt that normal

[autumn frost]

my family raises chickens

[noble flame]

that's like pretty cheap

[quick blade]

yummy

[autumn frost]

I live lowkey on the edge of suburbia and rural farmland

on one side lives farms of goats, sheep, and llamas and the other are the suburbs

[toxic bone]

if u apply to over 20 colleges u dtm

[quick blade]

Wow 😭

[lofty basin]

i still have yet to hear one good take from you

Low incomes should be applying to as many college as humanly possible to go to wherever they get the best aid

i applied to 21 as an fgli. there is no harm in seeing ur financial offers

[left quartz]

That’s an extreme

I agree with trying to get the best aid you can but the number of colleges you can apply to is a different number than those you can apply to with at least half decent essays

And if you’re submitting apps you put zero effort into bc you were shotgunning they’re worthless

[lofty basin]

obviously yes in that context if your half-assing your essays to simply quantify your college applications, then its pointless. But if you are genuienly committing time and effort in the apps and producing competitve applications, then apply to as many as you possibly can with that mindset

[left quartz]

Did they actually approve you

I asked consultants abt this none of them were aware of it

[quick blade]

They did approve me

[left quartz]

And from what I’ve seen nothing has been solid evidence

[left quartz]

What email did they send once approved

[coarse remnant]

wait i didn't know you could do that wtf

i applied to 23 but i had 2 separate platform schools and i did one from coalition

[quick blade]

I couldn’t do mine on coalition 😭

I was about to but for some reason my counselor no longer shows up on my profile so he’s not linked

And I can’t submit without that

[coarse remnant]

oh that's weird

[quick blade]

Yeah

[coarse remnant]

my school uses a separate platform to send counselor and teacher recs

but it and coalition don't communicate with each other

[quick blade]

My school uses coalition to send stuff

[coarse remnant]

so coalition was saying that my stuff hadn't been sent but i did everything through that platform and the applicant portal which is how everything got through

i was kind of freaking out bc the platform said my stuff was sent but the portal said they hadn't received it yet but it updated in a few days

[quick blade]

i submitted an additional rec

😭

[coarse remnant]

ohh interesting

[quick blade]

i almost added 2 instead of one

but apparently my history teacher's rec

wasn't that great

so i removed it

[left quartz]

What does the cut off part say

I wanna show them

At the top

[left quartz]

Ah ty

[left quartz]

So they never addressed you by name?

Or support ticket id

Usually at least one of the two happens with support tickets in general

Bc they all run off zendesk type stuff

[quick blade]

Not by name

[quick blade]

There were random letters

[left quartz]

Yeah same thing

Some sort of identifier

[quick blade]

😭

[left quartz]

Letters possibly makes sense for common app

Shorter strings with more combos than numbers

Up to 52 per char if it’s case sensitive

[quick blade]

Interesting

[coarse remnant]

wait haha i just found out my dad applied to usc a billion years ago and didn't get in but i got in

he applied for his masters though but still bragging rights

[proud vale]

@left quartz

[left quartz]

How did you get that many approved

[proud vale]

Atp I don’t think there’s any limit

For adding new unis

[quick blade]

Damn you have more than me 😭😭

33???

[proud vale]

I just told them to add it

Like I sent list of unis

And they just did

[quick blade]

Maybe 60 schools is too much

[noble flame]

bruh thats crazy

i thought 20 ca + ut + 4 ucs was. a lot

[proud vale]

i feel like I applied to 67 unis

💀

[quick blade]

What did you just say

😭😭

[left quartz]

Tbf this is 3 unique apps despite the number attached

The issue is more the fees than the effort

Speaking of I wonder how the common app fee waiver applies if you do a manual override

Do they cap you at 20 or apply it to all

[quick blade]

Wdym

[proud vale]

no

can be applied for all

[noble flame]

bruh i shouldve applied to 30

i didnt know u could add more

[proud vale]

i mean...

theres coalition though

[proud vale]

also, if u delete the college they added for u

u gotta contact them again

so ig they're not giving slots

[coarse remnant]

what on earth

[fervent salmon]

I didn’t need any aid

Was it better to do EA or do RD

[short gulch]

RD I think??? But imo doing EA gives you two shots instead of 1 (tho the deferral acceptance rate is lower)

[sterile stone]

rd gives you more time for essays and improving your app

like i've changed my app a lot since ea but i can't do anything about it since usc doesn't allow locis or anything

[jaunty echo]

is usc a party school?

[quick blade]

it is :SOB:

are you going to go to the parties

[short canopy]

we love parties

[quick blade]

i hate parties

(i don't go to parties)

[short canopy]

oh

[quick blade]

💀

[short canopy]

we hate parties

(i also dont go to many parties)

lwk want to party in college tho 😛

[jaunty echo]

not sure if im going but my mom kept on saying it's a party school :/

[quick blade]

i'm going to be a bum

😭

[quick blade]

usc is very good

[jaunty echo]

🥹

[short canopy]

yeah its a party school but good school nonetheless

[short canopy]

lmao why

[jaunty echo]

i see :0

[quick blade]

broke

[short canopy]

what major did you apply as

brah

financial aid

they give stipend too

• on-campus job

[quick blade]

writing for screen and television

i don't know if i even want to go into hollywood

i was thinking about leaving the country

💀

[short canopy]

💀

why bro

we love the US

with its uh

ice agents

and trumps

[quick blade]

because the industry might be cooked

😭

this is scary

i'm going to be writing

like every day

[jaunty echo]

uhhhh 😭

[short canopy]

no its ok

you'll be locked in

would u consider urself a good writer thn

are ur essays fire

[quick blade]

yes they are i guess

[short canopy]

woah

u should show

[quick blade]

when i win an oscar

[short canopy]

broo

i wanna see the fire college essays tho

[quick blade]

writing the supplemental essay nearly killed me

😭

the first one i did

[autumn frost]

what did y'all write abt for your "10 minutes and 1 million people" essay

I think I cooked for that essay

[toxic bone]

gng if u gon be a bum why usc

work hard play hard school

[sterile stone]

i wish the 10 minutes prompt was my prompt 💔 viterbi had 3 essays i think

[toxic bone]

yeah

viterbi prompts were pretty good tho

i just didn’t like the diversity one

[jaunty echo]

oh i did that 🫠

but it's kinda recycled from another skl's essay

[autumn frost]

what was your topic?

[autumn frost]

I'm not a partier nor a football enjoyer so I'm not sure if usc would be my vibe

though I do really like the cali weather

[haughty moth]

kind of

there will always be parties but you can choose to not go

for example i had a very successful day trip today

despite it being the first saturday back at school

[coarse remnant]

woahh where is that?

[plain surge]

is it angeles forest/?

[fervent salmon]

USC is a party school but I’m prolly not gonna be partying lmao

Cuz I ain’t paying 400k just to party with huzz

Like any state school would do for a fifth of that

[jaunty echo]

About girls in stem and things I did 😆

[jaunty echo]

It’s like 99000 for intl 😭😭

Hope I can get the merit scholarship

[haughty moth]

sandstone peak santa monica mountains

[haughty moth]

i take it back my other roommates threw a party today so i helped host

so there are some u cant avoid ig but you can still choose your social circle = you can choose to hang out with people who dont party often

[jaunty echo]

how's USC merit scholarship evaluated?

[haughty moth]

what reddit threads r you looking at

pretty sure marshall outcomes are better rn than they've ever been

[fervent salmon]

yea no joke xd

which is why i meant its almost 400k for the degree(not incl. housing, extra stuff you'll need)

real cost might be 500k which is a lot for a party private school

[twin thistle]

hey is it over if you’re deferred or is it like glass half full

[autumn frost]

Glass 1/4 full

[light moth]

is anyone else unable to register for explore USC events in the app portal? It asks what type of event I am interested in but no choices appear to click.

[coarse remnant]

i fear that usc only either accepts or defers during ea

[twin thistle]

I thought that it’s possible to be rejected ?

[toxic bone]

no

[coarse remnant]

no, if you don't get in you're automatically deferred, but you just have to make sure you opt in to RD

[twin thistle]

ya I already filled the thing out

[prisma fractal]

same here, maybe they haven’t released them yet

[haughty moth]

i was helping w a marshall club info sesh and one of the other ppl running it had to leave mid sesh bc an evercore md was calling him with an offer

ah thats for mba who cares

priorities r different there imo

marshall has been like t15 mba for the past few yrs anyways

same as anderson

dope

r u finance

like do u care about going to evercore

u can use college to decide

i was same

ya a lot of ppl i know got us offers rescinded bc of visa n stuff

yeah we would be getting trumped rn

the problem is we r broke

😂

so he cant take any money anyways

chill

u can do suite or dorm freshman yr

sometimes apartment

pros and cons

it is ye

idt people rly care too much about if ur queer or not its much more normalized here

however if u are trying to not have a roommate for on campus, that will be really hard

there is at least like gender inclusive housing in some places tho

accurate

if u r marshall ur classes are more limited bc u have marshall core to deal with

so u cant rlly take like ir poli sci law like a dornsife econ major would

however u shouldnt be too restricted to do like

surfing

what is ur major specifically

ya

i was marshall for 2 weeks

then went back to econ

[glacial valve]

is it better in econ

[haughty moth]

better is relative

i did it bc the classes r easier for me

i can graduate earlier

i have a finance job anyways

and i dont like some of the marshall core so id rather just not deal with like 302 304

k ur units aren't that bad then

relatively

well its just that dornsife majors would have a better reason to do it

bc u might be able to cross credit it over and stuff

if u need ges u can go ahead and take it if u want

ya they have like archery golf

i did golf a yr ago

just random fun stuff

my roommate is in a like yoga mindfulness class

sleep class idk

this is all public info btgw

i hope u realize that lol

example

theres also like music dance

im in dance rn

and i did guitar as a freshman

so there r those like fun classes

and maybe u can beg marshall to transfer some other academic classes over like i can for dornsife

but i think theyre a lot more strict about it

but yeah ive taken classes in sociology

about to do one in public policy too its chill

ya ofc

hard to say

like professionally probably the class im in rn its a masters econ class

personally the guitar and golf classes for sure

[quick blade]

who would be swimming

😭

[haughty moth]

i also dropped my marshall degree so i could get master's concurrently in 4 yrs

[haughty moth]

prereq for surfing mostly i think

and then other people that just dont know how to swim

same reason i took golf bc idk how to golf

the networking u can get from a golf game

is crazy

btw

or even like

top golf

idk about that

im not a clubber

bipolar bruh

so its 70 and sunny 95% of the days right

what ppl leave out is how at 8am its freezing cold so u get a jacket

but then by the time it gets to 11 u start burning alive

and then 3pm its cold again

anyways its chill very sunny u can just assume its 70 every day

the other days are random 4 day periods where u get like 5 inches of rain

ya year round

obv it gets to like 85 summer 60 winter but for the most part u can expect 70 ish

the joke is that la only has one season

sunny

im from the bay

i havent seen snow in like

5 years

this is like

27 and 20

i think

and 70 is like 22

c

lol

im pretty sure its 27

one of my new friends last sem is an exchange student from the uk so i have to convert so she knows whats going on 😂

[haughty moth]

google says 29

close enough

[vagrant salmon]

is there a loci?

[twin heath]

no

[versed narwhal]

@haughty moth

does the time we submit our housing app matter

Since it's general lottery

[haughty moth]

i don't think so but it couldn't hurt

[shadow delta]

https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/01/16/usc-admits-about-3800-early-action-applicants-to-class-of-2030/ unsure if this was shared here already

[haughty moth]

what

😂

[haughty moth]

no one knows how many people they will take my friend

its all a mystery

bc class sizes change so often now

[twin thistle]

no dalone is a mole in the admissions office u def know

[haughty moth]

this yr admits went up and that and thats not even including spring admits

[haughty moth]

bruh if i worked at the admissions office i would be selling the info to some posh private school not putting it in a public discord server

[twin thistle]

LMAOOOOOOO

fair

[olive girder]

wiat this is bad for the people that did rd 😭

[shadow delta]

why so

[olive girder]

less spots in RD

although i have no numbers on the amount of RD vs EA applicants etc

[olive relic]

UR year

or THIS year

dont they have no spring admits yet

[haughty moth]

this past cycle

my yr had less spring admits for sure and i think less fall too

[haughty moth]

how do you know what usc wants to do w class size tho

this past yr they admitted more than in 24

[olive girder]

7.5-9.5k

reasonable rnage

[haughty moth]

u cant know exact # tho a 2k swing is crazy

and not everyone in ea will take usc anyways

[olive girder]

right...

[olive girder]

this is true... however the number we are focusing on is admits not the yield %

[olive relic]

hoqw does one get spring

[haughty moth]

u r automatically considered for spring

i did not fill anything special out and i ended up as a spring admit

[haughty moth]

the # of people that take usc now (because there are people like that despite deadline on may 1st) will affect the rd pool

anyways itll probably be like 10% as per usual

[olive relic]

what was ur GPA

sorry to ask

[haughty moth]

3.9 ish

i had 2 bs

[olive relic]

oh fuck

r most spring admits

like rlly cracked

[haughty moth]

oh wait like

[noble flame]

dont do they that spring admit stuff so they can lower their admit rate

[haughty moth]

weighted was like 4.1

[olive relic]

cause i thought spring admits were from

[haughty moth]

ya but the message there was in reference to ea

[olive relic]

oh fuck

im screwed then lMAO

[haughty moth]

maybe

keep in mind they admit like 8k fall

maybe 9k

[autumn frost]

what are your stats if you don't mind

[haughty moth]

but then spring is like 1.5k ish

i think this past cycle was almost 2k

so u still have to be good

[olive relic]

everything rlly good except GPA

but i have circumstances

[autumn frost]

I don't think you're cooked then

[haughty moth]

nah i had like

mid ecs

[autumn frost]

they admit holistically so they will be able to see your whole situation

[olive relic]

I got deferred EA

[haughty moth]

well these days eagle scout is considered mid by the a2c reddit masses

[autumn frost]

my ecs were really mid too

[haughty moth]

[olive relic]

the one thing i feel helps is like

well i cant say

biut i dont think im screwed

but it still feels

idk im scared lOL

[autumn frost]

believe in yourself twin

[haughty moth]

nah even if u dont get usc

it will work out

what major

[autumn frost]

do you think it will give you an advantage to apply to a niche major

I applied to computational neuroscience cuz it aligned with my ecs n stuff but I lowkey just want to do bio

[haughty moth]

didnt u get in

lol

but in general i think yes

[autumn frost]

just wondering in general

[olive relic]

Art History 1st choice

[haughty moth]

and yeah definitely comp neuro is super underappreciated

[olive relic]

Archeology second choice

[haughty moth]

whoa is that roski

[autumn frost]

wait goated majors

[haughty moth]

or dornsife

[olive relic]

dornslife

[prime dew]

I applied as something similar but then switched majors