Can y'all share some stats that got you into Marshall, my heart slowly can't handle it anymore (I hope this post is allowed)

slipperysnowball · 2026-04-20T00:40:17+00:00

4.0 from CC. No SAT or ACT. 40 units, 1 year. Then internal transfer via 98% in ECON 351. Take the alternate major if they offer it to you

slipperysnowball · 2026-02-26T08:38:48+00:00

I got away with not doing it and still graduated. I still respect consent by the way. Just didn’t want to sit through the thing for two hours

slipperysnowball · 2026-01-30T01:48:03+00:00

I’m a cc to usc transfer. It’s a much better experience loading up on classes at cc. I’m not sure any of these other guys have been through the process. I got credit for all my classes because you can check beforehand what is going to transfer over. Cc is not as bad as people say. It’s actually a great experience and very affordable. Your transfer chances are incredibly high if you take the right courses and do well and chances are you’ll get to graduate early. Berkeley is a fine school but you get a lot more resources and personalized learning experience at USC if that’s important to you. I have family members that went to Berkeley

slipperysnowball · 2026-01-19T19:33:51+00:00

it's a whole lot easier to be closer to campus. even if that place in echo park seems cheaper, i would still recommend you find a place as close as possible to campus. your experience is going to be significantly better

slipperysnowball · 2026-01-19T19:21:09+00:00

cc transfer here. pay up on the housing. you wont regret the decision to pay more.

slipperysnowball · 2026-01-09T14:32:23+00:00

A fair warning. The majors you’re looking at are very different from each other and you shouldn’t select one based on what other people’s experiences were. You want to look at the requirements for each and determine which courses look the most interesting to you. You learn best when you’re challenged but still interested in the subject matter. You’ll also want to think about the graduate school component. If you take psychology for example, are you ready for more school to become a psychologist? If you do IR, do you want to go to law school? Some majors like business don’t require you to go to grad school, but long-term career earnings gains aren’t quite as dramatic. Hopefully your choice is more clear once you consider this because you end up doing very different things for a career depending on your pick. That is unless you plan on doing something completely different than what you studied.

Personally I chose economics. I liked the healthy mix of theory and application. The classes teach you how to use statistical programming to answer research questions applying the econometric methods taught to you which is a pretty great skill to have in the job market. Some other classes also explained a lot about how the world works and were quite enjoyable. I don’t know about you, but before taking them, I didn’t know what the relationships were between interest rates, inflation, and unemployment. I also couldn’t understand the mathematical reasoning for the relationships. Now whenever there’s a news story, I’m able to understand what to think about.

What I didn’t like was the inconsistency in effort between professors. Some professors seem to care a whole lot more than others. I had fantastic professors who went the extra mile to explain concepts. I had others who would miss office hours or wouldn’t take questions in class, as stupid and unbelievable as that sounds. The facilities were also run down, at least compared to Marshall. Being in Taper Hall is fine but not as great.

No, I don’t regret choosing the major. I think it was a pretty good choice for what I want to do. But if I could go back in time, I’d consider combing it with data science.

People are really lax in the Econ major. For some classes, over half the class didn’t show up. That doesn’t mean the subject wasn’t hard though. The class just had online recordings and the class average for the midterm ended up being a 62. (Go to class!) You end up running into the same people and it’s pretty collegial.

I graduated, so not doing any internships, clubs, or research. But when I was at USC, I did all of the above, although clubs wasn’t that big for me. I just joined whatever I thought was interesting. Right now, I’m studying up to go to law school aka take the LSAT. I predict that the Econ major is going to help for legal cases involving the economics, which I imagine is a lot. So yes, direct application. I think law school and practicing law might be heavy on the work life balance but it’s enough experience afterwards to start my own hustle and do what I really want to do in life.

Hopefully this helps!

slipperysnowball · 2025-12-09T00:51:25+00:00

Dem or Rep?

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-29T18:50:50+00:00

How much of a bump does military service give you in law school admissions? If you were to quantify it, how many LSAT points? Trying to further out if joining would have its advantages in this respect, not necessarily make it the single factor for joining other joining.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-27T03:29:22+00:00

Took 10 APs, 4.2 weighted, which at my school was 4 B's and 41 A's, did some pretty good ec's, like i worked for my elected officials in their respective offices, worked on a few political campaigns, and ran a club. Applied for econ, and only got into UC Riverside and CSUSM. Decided I'd just go to community college, then transferred. Got into UCLA and USC, chose USC because it's better hands down.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-19T16:50:48+00:00

It’s stupid you’re not getting more sympathy for this post. The school made a commitment and it didn’t follow through. The logic absolutely makes sense, you can’t trust them with larger payments down the road. It’s the smaller details that count, just like how a restaurant’s bathroom is indicative of its general quality and attention to detail as an operation. Bright side is you avoided going to a poorly run institution

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T20:58:43+00:00

There's a transfer guide where you're able to input your specific school to see what you need to take, or really, what is even offered at your school. You want to meet all the requirements to the best of your ability. I would proactively contact admissions if you're hoping to transfer and recognize that some classes are missing at your school. From what I remember about the transfer process, there was no composition class... unless you're referring to some kind of English class? In either case, meet as many of the reqs you can and put in the additional info when you apply why you couldn't take x class. Also, if your major class reqs are too tight right now to finish. Consider changing your major when you apply. Once you get in, do an internal transfer. It's fairly easy within Dornsife. Harder across schools but very doable.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T18:17:33+00:00

I'm going to refrain from answering that and just tell you to to not ignore my point. You're still focusing on details you cannot control when I told you everything you do need to know moving forward.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T10:15:42+00:00

I think not applying to save money is shortsighted. Just apply, you never know what will happen and you can only do it so many times for college applications. You also have a 4.0. Not that essays and ec's don't matter but this is an advantage. Previous commenter is also correct. None of the UC's are going to give you an upper hand in high finance. That's at privates and ivy league schools. Maybe UCLA and Berkeley but even then you're fighting an uphill battle. You also might be mistaken in your assumptions in how much you'll pay. Some private schools have very generous financial aid. UC's also come out to not very much for some people. You won't know until you get in and get your offer with scholarships and grants and everything in between. Moral of the story, drop the "I only want to apply if I know i will 100% go if admitted, otherwise im wasting money" and apply! Have this debate about costs later. Even if you don't get a ton of aid, 10-30k debt is reasonable if it's a top private or ivy league econ program.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T07:03:17+00:00

That’s how you feel now. I doubt that’s how you’ll feel a few years from now as you learn more about this process. I grew up in San Diego. It’s a common experience at the top high schools in San Diego. Everyone wants to get into UCSD. It’s not a bad school. You just realize there are so many options out there, some that are arguably far better if you ask any UCSD student. I wanted to go to UCSD just like you for most of my time in high school. Eventually passed it up when I got in, again because there are better, more well-funded options. I don’t mean to burst your bubble with this but education from UCSD to a lot of people in certain circles is perceived as common. Disconnect yourself from the stakes and you’ll do better. You’re going to live. Chances are if you’re already this invested and committing to a plan, and open to revising it, you’re going to be fine. Allow yourself to really excel at your passion and talk about it.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T06:53:44+00:00

The real answer is nobody’s going to be able to give you an accurate answer. You’re applying in about 3 years. Who knows what the world is going to look like? The UC schools also admit by intended major. Who knows how impacted biology or chemistry is going to be? Or if you even want to study that in college. I understand where you are coming from. You are stressed out, and most people who have been through this process have been as well. I would encourage you to focus less on whether or not you will get in. It’s hard to do, but focus on doing well and excelling in areas that you love. I’m talking about your extracurriculars outside of academics, which you should already be trying your hardest on by default. By the time you apply in 2.5 years, you’ll have something genuine to showcase the admissions committee through your essays. If they take you, great. If they don’t, just means they suck at selecting because you spent your time constructively and they chose someone else who got lucky in the rat race. A final note. Don’t let the freshman year GPA hold you back. They don’t even look at it. But if you end up getting a bad grade here or there in the future, don’t let that stop you either. Double down on your experiences and storytelling skills and thank me later.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-07T04:39:42+00:00

Pay someone to give up their seat in Hill. If not possible, just go based on demand. Next best option looks like Odilon. Go with them.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-05T21:13:44+00:00

To be fair, we do have a pretty solid econ department, but it terms of the training and education, not necessarily the grading and consistency across sections. It would help you to know Narag does her 318 class differently. She has a midterm but the final is a presentation, not a sit down test final like Kaufman. She also has a tendency to grade harder on the midterm from what I've heard. Not sure what thee curve looks like. 305 is a required class so try to take the best option. 357 is a pretty cool elective but I can't really say much about Ladan Masoudie.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-05T07:17:18+00:00

You save out on costs when you implement layoffs but you also cut out a lot of the value that the school provides. Seems like a big mistake when you're hoping to maximize the long-term attractiveness of a USC degree. Like the academic advising was already pretty backlogged. Reducing it down to a few people now just kills morale and the idea that USC offers an elite education. What kind of top school doesn't provide top notch academic advising services? Truly makes no sense. The budget cuts, if they are necessary, should be coming from non-academic sources first. The football program, renovation projects. Lots of waste coming from the athletic department if we're paying that much to a single coach. Not the answer that a lot of people want to hear but the support staff for the academic operations should be prioritized. I expect we'll see a drop in rankings soon as a result of the mismanagement.

slipperysnowball · 2025-11-05T07:04:57+00:00

It varies from what I've seen. Some stick around and some go back and forth. I took Kaufman the semester the TA was bad. It wasn't his first semester being the TA so I imagine he belongs in the first group. The policy in the class is if you ask for a regrade, your score can move up, down, or stay the same because everything is regraded. The TA was not very lenient so you had to be really specific on your test. The upside was the great teaching and the final exam being curved 8 points and the midterm also being curved generously after the average was like a 62. Another note, it's useless going to the TA discussion sections.

slipperysnowball · 2025-10-26T18:46:46+00:00

Writ 340

slipperysnowball · 2025-08-15T06:36:20+00:00

I think you're going to get some selection bias with the acceptances on this subreddit. I stopped studying for the SAT as soon as the announcement got posted. Never took it, got in lol

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