Update an Application (Before an Admission Decision)
Add general documents, unofficial scores and unofficial transcripts to an application you already submitted.
What kind of application are you updating?
The method you'll use to upload additional documents depends on how you submitted your grad school application.
General Graduate School Application
Send additional materials to the Graduate School at [email protected] and use the subject line "Update Application."
Arnold School of Public Health Application
Follow instructions from your application service for document submission. After application verification, email additional documents to the Arnold School Graduate Student Services Office.
Darla Moore Business School Application
Send additional documents to [email protected].
College of Nursing Application
Send additional documents to [email protected]
Official Scores and Transcripts
Must be submitted directly from the testing organization or from your university to the Graduate School.
Request to change the term you applied to, within one year of the original application term. After one year, please submit a new application.
Request Application Term Change
Is your application still under review? Use the Application Term Change Form to identify a new term to be placed on your current file. If you have been admitted, please use the form from the Update an Existing Admission section below.
*Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
Requirements
You must select a term when the program is accepting applications or that you have special permission to request.
Fee
None
Declined Applicants
Declined applicants may not use this option.
Change the program on an active application by submitting a new application within one year of the original submission. .
Requesting a Program Transfer
Submit a Second Application through ApplyWeb. You must use your original account to receive the discounted rate.. The username is the email address entered on the previous application. The discounted rate is only valid if the second submission is within one year of the original submission.
If your initial application was through an application service other than the general graduate school application, contact the Graduate School for a link to the discounted application form. Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
If initial application was not through a Public Health application service and you are interested in changing to a Public Health program, contact the Arnold School Graduate Student Services Office for instructions.
Requirements
Provide all supporting documents required by the new program. You must select a term when the program is accepting applications.
Fee
none
Declined Applicants
Declined applicants may not use this option.
Request that your application be reconsidered by the same program you applied to, within one year of the original application term.
Request to Reconsider a Declined Application
Submit a Second Degree-Seeking Application through ApplyWeb. You must use your original account to receive the discounted rate. The username is the email address entered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through an application service other than the general graduate school application, contact the Graduate School for a link to the discounted application form.
*Nursing applicants should contact your program office for instructions.
Requirements
Upload all required documentation for committee review. We recommend you also include new supporting material to increase your chances during reconsideration.
Fee
none
Update an Existing Admission
Change or defer your first term of enrollment in your program. The option to change terms is available within one year of the original admission term.
Requesting to Change or Defer Starting Term
If you have been admitted, please use the Update Request Form via ApplyWeb. This will set up a new record for your program to use to consider your request. You will receive email notification of the final decision.
*Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
Requirements
You must select a term when the program is accepting applications or that you have special permission to request.
Non-degree students should select "Renew Non-Degree Enrollment Privileges" on the option page to change your starting term after admission.
Fee
None
If you missed a major semester (fall or spring), select this option to renew your enrollment privilege. If it has been three years or more since your last enrollment, please submit a new application.
Requesting Reactivation of Degree-Seeking Enrollment Privileges
Use the Update Request Form via ApplyWeb. (Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.)
Suggestion
Attach an unofficial copy of your USC transcript, found in my.sc.edu to expedite review.
Fee
None
Open an application for a new program after being admitted to another program. If you are admitted to the new program, your admission to your original program will be cancelled.
Request Program Transfer
Submit a Second Degree-Seeking Application through ApplyWeb. The username is the email address entered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through an application service other than the general graduate school application, contact the Graduate School for a link to access the secondary application form. Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
If initial application was not through a Public Health application service and you are interested in changing to a Public Health program, contact the Arnold School Graduate Student Services Office for instructions.
For a transfer to a program in the same academic discipline (i.e., enrolled in Physics - PhD, requesting to change to Physics - MS), do NOT submit a secondary application unless instructed to do so by your program. Instead, use the Request for a Program Transfer Within the Same Discipline form, found on the Graduate School website.
Requirements
Provide supporting documents required by the new program. You must select a term when the program is accepting applications.
Fee
None
Request entry into a second program while actively pursuing a current program.
Requesting Concurrent Enrollment
Submit a Second Degree-Seeking Application through ApplyWeb. You must use your original account to receive the discounted rate. The username is the email address entered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through another application service (i.e. Business, Engineering or Public Health), contact the Graduate School for special access to the discounted application form. Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
Requirements
You must request that both program directors send a letter to the Graduate School approving concurrent enrollment. Check with your new program to see if additional documentation is required.
For concurrent enrollment in a program in the same academic discipline (i.e., enrolled in Physics - PhD, requesting concurrent enrollment in Physics - MS), do NOT submit a secondary application unless instructed to do so by the program. Instead, use the Request for Concurrent Enrollment Within the Same Discipline form, found on the Graduate School website.
Fee
None
Request to enroll as a non-degree student.
Requesting First-Time Non-Degree Enrollment
Use the Update Request Form via ApplyWeb. Select the Reactivate Enrollment Privileges option under the Non-Degree heading.
Requirements
You must have previously enrolled as a graduate student in a degree program at USC or have a degree application pending. Otherwise, use the Non-Degree Application
Fee
None
Request to have your non-degree enrollment status reactivated or change starting term for non-degree status after admission. Please verify the term your intended class is scheduled before selecting a term.
Requesting to Renew Non-Degree Enrollment
Use the Update Request Form via ApplyWeb. Select "Renew Non-Degree Enrollment Privilege" on the option page.
*Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
Requirements
You must have been previously been admitted to USC as a non-degree graduate student.
Fee
None
If you are participating in the USC International Accelerator Program, you may request to progress to the next level of the program.
Requesting to Progress to the Next Program Level
Use the Update Request Form via ApplyWeb.
Fee
None
Update an Expired Admission or Enrollment
Submit a new "primary" application if
- your initial admission term is more than a year in the past and you have not enrolled in classes or
- it has been more than 3 years since you attended classes