How-To Videos

The following videos will guide you through USC’s graduate application, show you how to apply for fee waivers, enter your academic information and submit test scores.

Navigating Your USC Graduate Application

This video introduces prospective students to USC’s online application system, providing an overview of its different quadrants. Applicants are providing useful guidelines on how to register an account, select programs and complete each segment of the application.

The USC Graduate Application: Fee Waivers

This presentation provides step-by-step directions to request application fee waivers for graduate programs at USC.

The USC Graduate Application: Entering Your Academic History

This presentation provides prospective applicants with important guidelines in order to complete the academic history quadrant on USC’s online application.

The USC Graduate Application: Entering Your GPA

This presentation provides prospective applicants with useful tips in order to enter their cumulative GPA within the academic history quadrant on USC’s online application.

The USC Graduate Application: Entering Your Standardized Test Scores

This presentation provides prospective applicants with useful tips to enter test scores (e.g. GRE and GMAT) on USC’s online application as well as our policies on score validity and receipt.

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