I worked at one of our Discover USC programs. We host these programs for prospective pupils around the world to ensure students and families gain information that is helpful USC and our application process. Although we’d love for everyone to check out USC, we realize it’s simply not feasible, so we take to our most readily useful to create a bit of USC to you!

During Discover programs we hope to present ourselves as professional and organized. That generally means we show up extra-early, run around like crazy people making sure the brochures we sent ahead of time have arrived, curse at non-functioning technology, and have now the hotel manager’s number on speed dial. Luckily we were ready to go before the first family arrived (there is always one that arrives at least a half hour early! for me, this time in D.C., there was no digging through offices and mail rooms to find our boxes of materials, our Power Point miraculously worked, and) We understand that families spend a lot of time attending information sessions, touring campuses, and filling away applications, so you want to ensure we are supplying the most useful information within the most efficient way at all our occasions. We usually have some wonderful USC alums lend a tactile hand when they are available. We constantly question my entire life choices when I listen to what our alums are up to. Legislation school at Georgetown…working for the CIA….no big deal.

I was scheduled to talk shortly at this system. A big section of my job is public speaking; we give presentations to high school students in auditoriums, classrooms, and career centers all the time. So I am generally very comfortable talking to a group. That stuff doesn’t anymore faze me. However, put me in a hotel ball room with all the Dean of Admission (my boss’s boss’s employer) and have me to speak, and I also’ll feel a little stressed ( merely a tad!)

It was great to see a few familiar faces of students I had met at high schools that week. I talked with one family that has driven about four hours to wait! That you have to make that sacrifice while we loved that the family was there, please don’t feel. Whenever we aren’t coming to a town in your area, please feel free to simply let your admission counselor know that you want more information but can not attend a Discover program.

Once our presentation that is formal is there is a chance to ask questions and hear from admission counselors from academic departments. Pupils can split into groups according to specialized niche and get major related questions as well. I heard from numerous families who had been having their first experience with USC that evening. A few other parents shared with me that they had currently been to USC, but they learned one thing new which somehow changed their perspective on the university application process or about USC. I also spoke with a parent who showed up to have some outdated details about USC or had accumulated some information based on someone else’s experience. This is a great possibility for moms and dads to recharge their knowledge and learn about present time USC.

One of many last, and another of my personal favorite, comments I heard about the was ‘now I understand why everyone has so much school spirit! night’ A job well done on our part.

At Discover USC! Maybe you will learn something new…you never know if we are coming to a city near you, or if you will be in Los Angeles on November 22^nd, please come visit us!