USC - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com Great College Advice Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/758df36141c47d1f8f375b9cc39a9095.png USC - College Admission Counseling https://greatcollegeadvice.com 32 32 College Admissions Expert on the University of Southern California in Los Angeles https://greatcollegeadvice.com/college-admissions-expert-on-the-university-of-southern-california-in-los-angeles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=college-admissions-expert-on-the-university-of-southern-california-in-los-angeles Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:21:29 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=14961 Mark says the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has every reason to be popular... or does it?

The post College Admissions Expert on the University of Southern California in Los Angeles first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> Mark Montgomery, college admissions coach and educational consultant, visits the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With 41,000 students, it’s not hard to see why this college in the heart of Los Angeles is popular, although its low yield rate raises questions.

 

TRANSCRIPT:

So today I’m here at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. And the University of Southern California has a long history, started in 1880, but relatively recently it has experienced a huge upsurge in popularity. And it’s really easy to see why: it’s a beautiful campus right here in the heart of Los Angeles, the weather, this is January and I’m wearing short sleeves and it’s very, very comfortable.

So why not? And why wouldn’t you want to go to a school in this beautiful environment? You can see the Student Union behind me and the very famous statue of the Trojan; the library’s behind the camera. The popularity is based on a lot of things: the geography, also the size, this is a private university of about 18,000 undergraduates and about 23,000 more graduate students, it’s very big so there’s lots going on here. Again, the location is important.

Bringing in More Applicants

Recently, two or three years ago, USC made the decision to go under the Common Application. So that brought in even more applicants to the system, making it a more selective university. About 20% of the applicants are admitted. However, it’s really interesting to also know that the yield rate is about 30%. The yield rate is the percentage of students who are given offers of admission who actually take that offer. So only about one third of the students who get an offer to come here to this beautiful campus in this beautiful environment. Extremely popular with international students, only about a third take the offer of admission.

The rest are going somewhere else for a variety of reasons. But it’s important to think about that yield rate, and maybe it raises questions in your mind as to whether or not — well, how popular is this school really?

Mark Montgomery
Expert Educational Consultant

The post College Admissions Expert on the University of Southern California in Los Angeles first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! https://greatcollegeadvice.com/it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-may-be-january-but-its-not-too-late-to-apply-to-college Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:55:42 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=9712 Although the January 1st application deadlines have passed, there are still many other colleges to which you can apply.

The post It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> Sure the January 1st application deadlines for many colleges have passed, but fear not, there are still many, many colleges to which you can still apply.  In fact, there are a surprising number of colleges that have March 1st deadlines.

In this first of a series of three blogs, we’ll look at colleges which all have January 15th deadlines.

  • American University
  • Babson
  • Bard
  • Beloit (note: early action is 3 days earlier- Jan 12)
  • Bentley
  • Brandeis
  • Bryn Mawr
  • Bucknell
  • Case Western
  • Chapman
  • Clark University
  • Clarkson University
  • Colgate
  • UC Boulder
  • Colorado College
  • University of Dallas
  • Denison University
  • University of Denver
  • DePaul (Chicago)
  • Dickinson College
  • Emory
  • Fordham
  • Franklin & Marshall
  • Furman
  • Georgia Tech
  • Hampshire College
  • Haverford
  • McGill
  • Kenyon College
  • Loyola Marymount University
  • Mt. Holyoke
  • UNH Chapel Hill
  • Oberlin
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI)
  • Rhodes College
  • University of Richmond
  • University of San Diego (USD)
  • University of San Francisco (USF)
  • Seattle University
  • Skidmore College
  • Texas A & M
  • Tulane University
  • Union College
  • University of Vermont
  • Virginia Tech
  • Wellesley
  • Whitman
  • Wittenberg

And if you’re feeling ambitious, you might even make the January 10th deadline for USC or the January 11th deadline for NYU!
Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

The post It May be January, But It's Not Too Late to Apply to College! first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> Common Application Goes Live August 1st https://greatcollegeadvice.com/common-application-goes-live-august-1st/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=common-application-goes-live-august-1st Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:25:18 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=7659 The Common Application site went live today meaning students can start work on their college applications.

The post Common Application Goes Live August 1st first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> It’s August 1st and yes, the Common Application website is live!

What does that mean to you? If you’re a rising senior, it means that it’s a good time to open up an account with the Common Application and begin inputting the preliminary information so that you can save time later. You can also read the essay prompts get started on a rough draft.

This year, 45 additional colleges decided to join the list of schools who will accept the Common Application. They include everyone from UNC Chapel Hill to USC.
But if you’re waiting for UCLA or Berkeley to join the Common Application, don’t hold your breath. For large universities, it makes more fiscal sense to have their own applications. The Common Application is free for students but not for the schools who use them.

Schools generally don’t mind paying a small fee to use the Common App because it usually increases the number of applicants they receive.

One last piece of advice. The Common App might be “live”, but when you click on the college of your choice, it might not have its supplemental essay questions up yet. For those prompts, you might have to wait a few more weeks.

Juliet Giglio
Educational Consultant in Syracuse, New York

The post Common Application Goes Live August 1st first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> 13-year-old Verbally Commits to USC Football https://greatcollegeadvice.com/13-year-old-verbally-commits-to-usc-football/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=13-year-old-verbally-commits-to-usc-football Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:21:58 +0000 https://greatcollegeadvice.com/?p=3880 Earlier this week we wrote about college athletic recruiting and questions student athletes should consider asking. This post provided great topics for students to think about as they consider athletics to be a major factor in their college search process.  However, not all student athletes are considering all of their options. Earlier this month,  13-year-old […]

The post 13-year-old Verbally Commits to USC Football first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]> Earlier this week we wrote about college athletic recruiting and questions student athletes should consider asking. This post provided great topics for students to think about as they consider athletics to be a major factor in their college search process.  However, not all student athletes are considering all of their options.
Earlier this month,  13-year-old David Sills, a Delaware quarterback  verbally agreed to an athletic scholarship from USC upon his graduation from high school in 2015.  The initial article from Delawareonline.com, talks about how the news created a media frenzy and “stunned” the sports world.
I have to say that I am pretty stunned too.
Katherine Price
Educational Consultant
 

The post 13-year-old Verbally Commits to USC Football first appeared on College Admission Counseling.

]]>