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Application Year:
2022/2023
Best movie of all time
Dream trip
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Dream job
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Favorite Book
The student body at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a diverse group of unique engineers and computer scientists who work together to engineer a better world for all humanity. Describe how your contributions to the USC Viterbi student body may be distinct from others. Please feel free to touch on any part of your background, traits, skills, experiences, challenges, and/or personality in helping us better understand you.
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Describe yourself in three words.
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
What is your favorite snack?
Application Year:
2023/2024
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Dream trip
Describe yourself in three words.
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Best movie of all time
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Application Year:
2022/2023
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Describe yourself in three words.
What is your favorite snack?
Dream trip
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
Best movie of all time
Dream job
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Application Year:
2022/2023
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Dream trip
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Dream job
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
What is your favorite snack?
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
Application Year:
2024/2025
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What is your favorite snack?
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Dream trip
Dream job
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Favorite Book
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Application Year:
2024/2025
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Describe yourself in three words.
What is your favorite snack?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Best movie of all time
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Dream job
Dream trip
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Favorite Book
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Application Year:
2024/2025
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Dream job
Favorite Book
What is your favorite snack?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Dream trip
Starting with the beginning of high school/secondary school, if you have had a gap where you were not enrolled in school during a fall or spring term, please address this gap in your educational history. You do not need to address a summer break.
Application Year:
2024/2025
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Describe yourself in three words.
Dream trip
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Dream job
Best movie of all time
Favorite Book
What is your favorite snack?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Application Year:
2024/2025
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Describe yourself in three words.
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Dream job
Best movie of all time
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
What is your favorite snack?
Dream trip
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Application Year:
2024/2025
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Best movie of all time
Starting with the beginning of high school/secondary school, if you have had a gap where you were not enrolled in school during a fall or spring term, please address this gap in your educational history. You do not need to address a summer break.
Describe yourself in three words.
What is your favorite snack?
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and their 14 Grand Challenges go hand-in-hand with our vision to engineer a better world for all humanity. Engineers and computer scientists are challenged to solve these problems in order to improve life on the planet. Learn more about the NAE Grand Challenges and tell us which challenge is most important to you, and why.
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Favorite Book
Dream job
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Dream trip
The student body at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a diverse group of unique engineers and computer scientists who work together to engineer a better world for all humanity. Describe how your contributions to the USC Viterbi student body may be distinct from others. Please feel free to touch on any part of your background, traits, skills, experiences, challenges, and/or personality in helping us better understand you.
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Application Year:
2024/2025
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Dream trip
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Application Year:
2024/2025
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job
Application Year:
2023/2024
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Describe yourself in three words.
What is your favorite snack?
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Favorite Book
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Best movie of all time
Dream job
Dream trip
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Application Year:
2023/2024
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Describe yourself in three words.
What TV show will you binge watch next?
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
What is your favorite snack?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
Best movie of all time
Dream job
Dream trip
Application Year:
2023/2024
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Describe yourself in three words.
What is your favorite snack?
Best movie of all time
Dream job
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Favorite Book
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Dream trip
Application Year:
2022/2023
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job
Dream trip
Favorite Book
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and their 14 Grand Challenges go hand-in-hand with our vision to engineer a better world for all humanity. Engineers and computer scientists are challenged to solve these problems in order to improve life on the planet. Learn more about the NAE Grand Challenges and tell us which challenge is most important to you, and why.
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
The student body at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a diverse group of unique engineers and computer scientists who work together to engineer a better world for all humanity. Describe how your contributions to the USC Viterbi student body may be distinct from others. Please feel free to touch on any part of your background, traits, skills, experiences, challenges, and/or personality in helping us better understand you.
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Application Year:
2022/2023
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
The student body at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a diverse group of unique engineers and computer scientists who work together to engineer a better world for all humanity. Describe how your contributions to the USC Viterbi student body may be distinct from others. Please feel free to touch on any part of your background, traits, skills, experiences, challenges, and/or personality in helping us better understand you.
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Application Year:
2022/2023
What is your favorite snack?
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Dream job
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Dream trip
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Favorite Book
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Application Year:
2022/2023
The student body at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering is a diverse group of unique engineers and computer scientists who work together to engineer a better world for all humanity. Describe how your contributions to the USC Viterbi student body may be distinct from others. Please feel free to touch on any part of your background, traits, skills, experiences, challenges, and/or personality in helping us better understand you.
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and their 14 Grand Challenges go hand-in-hand with our vision to engineer a better world for all humanity. Engineers and computer scientists are challenged to solve these problems in order to improve life on the planet. Learn more about the NAE Grand Challenges and tell us which challenge is most important to you, and why.
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Application Year:
2022/2023
Dream trip
Favorite Book
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
Many of us have at least one issue or passion that we care deeply about – a topic on which we would love to share our opinions and insights in hopes of sparking intense interest and continued conversation. If you had ten minutes and the attention of a million people, what would your talk be about?
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
Best movie of all time
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Describe yourself in three words.
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Application Year:
2023/2024
Describe yourself in three words.
Best movie of all time
What TV show will you binge watch next?
Which well-known person or fictional character would be your ideal roommate?
Dream trip
If you could teach a class on any topic, what would it be?
If your life had a theme song, what would it be?
Favorite Book
Describe how you plan to pursue your academic interests and why you want to explore them at USC specifically. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
What is your favorite snack?
Dream job