Hello, TPB. You are not alone. I applied for BA program. And a lot of students are on the wailists as well.

The long wait was not worth it :)

I applied to this program last year in the first week of December and was then interviewed around January end. After asking them about admission decision, i was notified with wait-listed decision in March end. And finally after 8 months I received a rejection. It was unethical to make students wait so long for a decision and that too without communicating about when will results be out or why it is taking so longer! Though I always received replies for my emails but the replies were never satisfactory.

Still on the waitlist, any progress for the other folks on the waitlist? I was indicated that we would be told the final outcome by September. Its quite a wait but still a small sliver of hope.

Pretty sure :(. I emailed the recently and still did not get anything out of them... I really don't see why they haven't finalized decisions for us

Can we now safely assume that no more admits will be given?

I also have gotten no information out of them for the waitlist. I think they just have us on standby in case someone who has already accepted their offer drops out or defers for Fall 2020, which is seems unlikely this late into the summer.. It's really unfortunate since I keep waiting for a decision but I am not optimistic...

Has anyone have any idea if they are going to offer any admits from waitlist? Not able to get why they are keeping it open. So annoying as I get same reply from the dept.

5yrs worked as a software engineer, 2yrs data engineer, 4+ yrs AI startup founder (backed by VCs), current CTO at AI/Blockchain startup, BS in CS from outside, MS in SE from California (GPA 3.7), one journal author, recommendations from a current data scientist at Amazon, Google. SOP focused on data visualization. I already got admission from my top choice and taking the summer courses. Nonetheless, USC was too long to give me the rejection.

Is there any waitlisted admitted student planning to take the semester online this fall. I am stuck in the decision making.

What Rubbish! It took them this long to reject!! Used to think it's a good university but after this have lost all respect. On the other hand there are universities which are replying to my queries daily about the changing situation there. Good for me !

To the other students still waiting for a decision from USC. Guys there's no hope. Even if you get admit it would be just Fall 2020. I just received another email from the University telling me waitlisted students cannot update term. This makes me question to them on humanitarian grounds. I would ask for justice and clarification of such kind of mistreatment. Once I will be through with them with civil talks. I am gonna ruin them publicly and would expose their immoral schemes. To all those waitlisted students who got admit. What are you guys doing? Have you given up? Are you taking online classes? What have you decided.

They have been very tight lipped about the waitlist and give a generic reply everytime you email them. So not much hope for getting off waitlist as it's already second week of July now.

Does anyone on the waitlist thinks there's a chance they'll be accepting anyone off of it?

TTPB: I will drop an email to them, because I can't wait till November for new admit letter, only to learn that I didn't have this option at the first place. This would be fun to watch, because they have themselves emailed me the reply from the official email, attaching the link of updating. If this would be a mistake from their end, it would sucks to be me. I will definitely let you guys know how this unfolds. Seems like getting an admit is not just the end of misery from this University.

TTPB - The email I got on 2nd July mentioned the 2 options I listed below, but the website mentions 4 options (the fuckers didn't even mention on the website that these 4 options don't apply to everyone). I emailed [email protected] and [email protected]. This is the reply I got from the former today = "Thank you for your email. Because you were waitlisted, the five options to update does not apply to you. If you wish to be considered for the Spring 2021 or Fall 2021 term, you will need to reapply.".....If some waitlisted-->admit students are allowed an option to defer while some aren't, idk what to say, but this college is seriously, seriously fucked up and keeps money as its first priority, fucking playing with the careers of prospective students.

TTPB: Lol what the hell is wrong with them. Did you emailed them on [email protected] for asking about the updation of term. Please confirm because if it might be the case I don't know what to presume. I definitely got the email reply telling me I can update. Can you please confirm, if this might be the case I need to confirm again. This would be a big blunder. I wonder how are they going to say me no when they already told me I can.

To the "Applied Data Science" poster below -- they gave you an option to defer to the next Fall?? Wtf, I got into CS (DS) on July 2nd after being waitlisted, and the only options I have are in-person or online Fall 20. I even confirmed this by dropping them a mail and they replied that yeah I have just 2 options.