New USC Annenberg students: ambitious, high-achieving trailblazers

For every six students who applied to attend USC Annenberg this academic year, only one was admitted.

It’s no surprise, then, that the recently matriculated freshmen, along with newly arrived transfer students, master’s students and doctoral students, collectively possess impressive transcripts, CVs and resumes as well as myriad diverse experiences, interests, manners of thinking and ethnic and geographic heritage.

“A student body that looks like the future of America came together really richly,” says Geneva Overholser, USC Annenberg’s journalism school director. "They are a very impressive group," says Larry Gross, USC Annenberg's vice dean and communication school director. The students are trailblazers, too. Eighteen percent of the undergraduate Annenberg freshmen and twenty-eight percent of the transfers to Annenberg are the first members of their families to attend college.

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