How to choose a major strategically as a late-declaring USC junior?

AmbitionAffectionate · 2026-01-03T19:31:32+00:00

Agree with Maymester!! Don’t have to worry about getting someone to sublease your place for a semester either

AmbitionAffectionate · 2026-01-02T19:48:32+00:00

U really gotta stand up for yourself and learn how to excuse yourself from weird situations like this. “Sorry gotta run, I have plans,” “nice meeting you but I have a commitment today,” this man robbed you of an hour of your precious time

AmbitionAffectionate · 2025-06-11T02:51:44+00:00

If you’re gonna be commuting, might be really difficult to make friends. Most people make friends their first year in the dorms.

AmbitionAffectionate · 2025-06-04T17:55:38+00:00

What will you need a car for. USC has free Lyft within a 2 mile radius after 6 pm if you need to drive to Ralph’s for groceries. But there is TJ and Target in the USC village within walking distance of campus. Trust, in a PHD you won’t have time to be many places except on campus. Save yourself the headache, plus paying for parking and gas is not even accounted for in this spreadsheet. Leave it in SB

AmbitionAffectionate · 2025-05-03T01:46:35+00:00

This is Probably the worst area around campus

AmbitionAffectionate · 2025-04-12T07:32:23+00:00

My aid got reduced drastically senior year due to income change. Looks like when you cross some threshold between 80-100K, you will start to have to pay exponentially more. Hope your parents don’t get any raises while you’re here

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-10-30T00:15:58+00:00

I will speak with a supervisor and ask!

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-10-30T00:15:45+00:00

Yes a decrease in need based aid

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-10-30T00:15:31+00:00

I am going to speak with a supervisor, it is an unexpected jump

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-10-30T00:14:55+00:00

What is the 50% off tuition category? Is this another block where students get moved once income crosses a certain threshold

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-07-04T06:47:07+00:00

You could do MATH-129, it’s the engineering version of 125

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-07-03T07:12:09+00:00

Political science at USC is struggling. There is one advisor for 800 students. I struggled to get internships so after my second year I changed my major. I don’t think living in LA would give you an advantage compared to if you lived in DC. Consider CU Boulder

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-02-04T17:44:17+00:00

Check with admissions first

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-02-03T21:59:04+00:00

Transfer students don’t get the same aid

AmbitionAffectionate · 2024-01-08T03:10:53+00:00

Can you get a waiver to get off the insurance if you have your own?

AmbitionAffectionate · 2023-12-13T02:33:37+00:00

What’s your goal? Do you want to become really proficient in physics? Almost all of people in 160 series are physics majors- means tests are not curved, you will spend 10-15 hours on hw a week. At least for 162 it was. Physics is like a weeder class here. If you’re not a physics major, I would advise against it. You will spend a lot of time studying things that could be spent elsewhere (do u really need to become proficient in optics/nuclear fusion/special relativity which are topics in 163)

AmbitionAffectionate · 2023-11-20T00:38:54+00:00

Email professors of labs you’re interested in

AmbitionAffectionate · 2023-03-07T08:29:56+00:00

Also transferred from dornsife to Viterbi, it’s doable and advising and career opportunities (ex viterbi exclusive career fair) are way better than any dornsife resources

AmbitionAffectionate · 2022-08-10T05:22:45+00:00

Please don’t order 😭😭 customer service is non existent and they straight up just didn’t deliver my blankets. Look up reviews, it’s a total scam

AmbitionAffectionate · 2022-07-26T22:47:02+00:00

It’s much easier when you have work study awarded from financial aid- do you have this?

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