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COVID-19 Information:USC has taken several significant actions to assistance reduce the spread of COVID-19. We are standing to monitor the rapidly evolving state of affairs in lite of information from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health nearly the community spread of the virus in the canton. The university'due south leadership continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide updates every bit the state of affairs evolves. Visit coronavirus.usc.edu for the most upwards-to-date data.

Orientation: Freshman orientation takes place in late summer. Parents and students must reserve in advance, and consummate the pre-orientation checklist.

Jump Admits: Starting at USC in Jan? Check out this informational folio from Admissions.

Housing: For deadlines and awarding forms, visit USC Housing New Students.

Testing, for all freshman students: USC requires placement tests for undergraduate students to ensure that they are advised properly and enroll at the advisable level to begin their studies. Placement tests are offered in Math, Chemistry, Foreign Linguistic communication, Writing Composition, and English proficiency.

Testing, for international students: The International Student English Placement Examination (ISE) is required of all newly admitted international students whose first language is non English. The Center for Testing and Assessment administers the ISE at the kickoff of the commencement term of written report.

Health Requirements: All new students are required to verify immunizations, select health insurance coverage, and consummate an online booze education program. USC Educatee Health has a dedicated webpage for parents with information and links to all the primal information, including privacy policies for patients.

Condom: Resources, tips, and an overview of services for students (and parents).

Thriving in College—The Parent Guide: Communication from USC experts on how to support your pupil in making a successful transition to college life in the starting time year and beyond.

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USC alumnus Patrick and Bonnie Fuscoe

Fuscoes' gift benefits USC engineering, trip the light fantastic toe & film schools

Longtime USC supporters Patrick and Bonnie Fuscoe have given $10 meg to the USC Viterbi Schoolhouse of Technology and $1 million each to the USC Kaufman School of Dance and USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts. The couple met in 1972 every bit undergraduate students at USC, where Bonnie Fuscoe studied art and Patrick Fuscoe studied civil engineering science. Their daughter, Sally, and son, Patrick Jr., also earned USC degrees. The Fuscoes view engineering science, dance and cinema as disciplines that inform one another to widen the arc of creativity and drive innovation.

Pollitt Family establishes professorship in stage direction

An endowed professorship in stage management has been established at the USC School of Dramatic Arts with a $ane.five million gift from Teresa and Byron Pollitt and their girl, Alice Thou. Pollitt 'xv. Teresa and Byron Pollitt are proud, iii-time USC parents. In add-on to Alice, who earned her BFA in stage management, daughter Emily earned a B.A. in political scientific discipline from the USC Dornsife College of Messages, Arts and Sciences and Mary earned a chief's in accounting from the USC Leventhal Schoolhouse of Accounting.

Irene Chen and Daniel Tsai

Gift will help older adults bridge the digital divide

USC Trustee Daniel K. Tsai and his wife, Irene Chen, support the efforts of Associate Professor Shinyi Wu and her inquiry squad to examination whether tablet computers can exist an effective medium to assist prevent disease, decrease isolation, increment social engagement and improve general well-being amid older adults with disabilities. Tsai and Chen are three-fourth dimension Trojan parents, their iii oldest children take attended USC as undergraduates. Daniel Tsai joined the USC Board of Trustees in 2012; his wife, Irene, earned a master'south degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in 1983.

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More than 267,580 donors take made gifts of less than $1,000.

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