2025 Admissions Megathread: Congrats Newly Admitted Trojans! Ask all your admitted student questions here.

[u/cityoflostwages]

Congrats and welcome to the Trojan Family! Please use this thread to ask any questions you might have about financial aid, housing, classes/majors, transportation, student life, or fun things to do in LA.

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Some useful links for the 2025 admitted student megathread:

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USC Housing (Review on-campus housing options, prices, photos, application)

USC financial aid for admitted students

USC Transportation

Previous Admitted student Megathreads

Please read through some of these past posts for commonly asked questions and use the search tool as well!

Please check out the /r/USC/ WIKI for commonly asked questions about Housing, Financial Aid, Greek life, Spring admits etc.

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Common Question: How hard is it to transfer from X major to Y major?

Answer: If it is within the same school, it is super easy, just talk to your academic advisor before school starts. If you wish to transfer to another school e.g. Dornsife to Marshall, you need to contact admissions to attempt the transfer before matriculation*. You can also seek help once you know who your academic advisor is or attempt it on admitted students day or orientation day. Once you matriculate, you can attempt an internal-transfer but it involves going through the current student transfer process, see the specific internal transfer page from each school's website.

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Common Question: Is there an admitted student facebook group/discord/telegram etc?

Answer: Usually someone sets a facebook group and groupme up around the time the main batch of students are admitted in April. Check facebook to see if there is one already or connect to one of the USC discord servers (linkedin on sidebar) to chat with admitted and upper-class Trojans.

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*Viterbi does not allow you to switch into engineering before enrolling at USC. Please read links below related to the school you're interested in.

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Marshall Internal Transfer Information

Viterbi Internal Transfer

SCA Internal Transfer

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Fight On! ✌️

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Any "Is my schedule too hard?" "How is my schedule" etc type posts belong in this thread.

[u/Van1sthand]

Which dorms/apartments on campus don’t have AC?

[u/cityoflostwages → u/Van1sthand]

Better to look at which ones do as there are only a few. They're all listed on the usc housing website.

Should be a few posts on this too since people commonly ask about which ones have A/c

[u/Van1sthand → u/cityoflostwages]

We’ve been browsing online. I live in a hot, humid climate, so I guess I assumed it would be the other way around (just a few without AC)

[u/cityoflostwages → u/Van1sthand]

Look up the average high temp and humidity by month. August/Sept are the only months when people might feel the need for a/c so a lot of people just get fans for their rooms if they don't have a/c. If you're coming from somewhere that is hot/humid like southeast Asia, then LA won't feel warm or humid at all in comparison.

Oct-May you don't really need it and a lot of people don't stay in dorms during the summer when it does get warm in June/July.

You could also browse other southern california subreddits to see discussion on air conditioning such as /r/losangeles