Hi Pharm47!
Everything was nice. Everyone knows what they are doing and extremely friendly. They went over stuff on their website, and others such as: rolling admission basis, how to get loans (they said next year students will not have to get private loans because of the grad plus loan program), etc. The most important thing I learned is that: they encourged you to retake classes you got C on. Even if those repeated courses do not raise you overall GPA up alot, they show that you are trying and that when they calculate prereq math/sciences GPA, they will only look at the "A" you just got. For example, I got one C in Biology, if I retake this class and got an A, for prereq math/science GPA, they only look at the A. However, for overall GPA, they take everything into account. Also, they HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend taking science classes at four-year university over community college.
Oh, one more thing. They say that last year, there were almost 1400 applications, they interviewed almost 600, and admitted slightly over 200 even though the entering class is 185. The reason is because someone will be admitted to multiple programs and decides not to attend USC. Of all those 200 from last year, all of them will be/got a BS by the time of admission.
Yeah, that's all I remember now. I'll post more if anything else comes to mind. Even though they say GPA is not everything (about 50% and everything else is another 50%), the avg GPA last year was 3.4.
Good luck to all of us who applying!
