Graduate School Admission Results

Unofficial admit with notification to start from summer semester to cover pre-requisite courses.

Non-C.S. major, 3.97 senior GPA, 3.96 GPA in 2 years of post-bacc classes in CS and physics. No publications, minimal research experience (current). Admitted to start early in the summer, but will ask to defer to fall if possible. Will be receiving official acceptance letter within 48-72 hr of the email.

To the poster below with 3.97 GPA, I too have an MS CS (S&E) USC admit and might want to defer to Fall '18. How will you contact USC for deferment? Mail them or is there a formal pipeline in place? Also, how strong should be the reason to defer?

To the poster below, I don't know of any formal pipeline with which to go through. I plan on calling admissions tomorrow to just ask about it, because the way it was worded in the application made me think "I am interested" meant "I am open to the option" and not "This is my preference over fall" lol

Non-C.S. major, 3.97 junior/senior years GPA, 3.96 GPA in 2 years of post-bacc classes in CS and physics. No publications, minimal research experience (current). Official admission decision was available 2 days after email notification.

Non-C.S. major, 3.97 junior/senior years GPA, 3.96 GPA in 2 years of post-bacc classes in CS and physics. No publications, minimal research experience (current). Official admission decision was available 2 days after email notification.

Former USC - Viterbi student. So happy to go back.

To the two posters below who received acceptances from USC, was this your first time hearing from them or had received correspondence before?

To the poster below: I'm not one of the ones you were asking, but I got my acceptance today and it was the first I have heard. I had no interview nor previous correspondence before acceptance. My general area is theory. Research related stats: 1 currently unpublished research paper, first author. 1 undergraduate conference talk. Letter of Recomendations: 1 awesome, 1 good, 1 OK

No words about funding.

Has anyone received information regarding the merit-based scholarship they were offering for students who apply before the December deadline? I have got an acceptance but no news regarding the scholarship. Anyone with any information?

To the USC poster below: I also applied before december deadline, and still haven't heard anything back from them regarding the scholarships. I sent them couple of emails about this but haven't heard anything back. The website says the decisions will be sent out between 31st January to 31st March, so hopefully we should hear something withing next couple of days. My youSC portal still says "pending review" for financial aid.