When I first offered to drive my friend Josh home, he reluctantly asked me to make a promise, so I did. “Promise not to judge me,” he insisted, his eyes wandering toward the ground, his face doing its best to avoid visible embarrassment. After reassuring him that I wouldn’t, we got in my car and he began navigating. As he laid out our route, the reasons behind his embarrassment became clearer; in a town notorious for car theft and...

Before I joined leadership my sophomore year, I hadn’t truly found my niche. Growing up, I had always found struggle in fitting in and feeling accepted amongst others. I had conditioned myself to believe that I wasn’t worth anyone else’s time. I thought that I was destined for an unfulfilled high school experience, and joining this class was my last-ditch effort to make something out of my next few years. What I didn’t know prior to...

My experiences in leadership have led me to discover that I am a people person. I genuinely enjoy surrounding myself with people, and I especially enjoy helping others. My first-choice major, economics, is a medium through which I can change others’ lives for the better. With an undergraduate degree in economics, it is my ultimate goal to go to law school and become a lawyer, so I can use my voice to represent the voiceless. Studying at Dornsife will provide...

I reworked these essays about 5 times a piece before I was happy with the way they came out. In retrospect I could have written much better, more effective essays but I got in so no worries!

This might seem like common knowledge but I feel as if a lot of people go about this incorrectly. Look up as much information about your college as possible when faced with questions like these! Colleges like to get a feel...

We have a GE core that prides itself in making sure students are well-rounded...

USC gets a bad rap for being in Southwestern Los Angeles, an area known to be slummish. Rest assured, our campus is one of the safest campuses in the nation. We have our own police department comprised of over 500 staffers who work 24/7, surveying both the campus itself and the radius surrounding...

If you're looking into grad school, USC is a great school to go to for an undergrad. We are a top-tier research university that offers research opportunities to students...

There exists no such thing as applying for too many scholarships, both for USC and for local and national organizations....