A latina accepted to USC Price School Master of Public Policy program with full-tuition scholarship

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Karla knew that she wanted to take her career to the next level. She’d risen from the ranks of Teach for America to become a college access director at a nonprofit in the Bay Area. She knew she needed some quantitative skills along the way to a graduate degree and initially came to The Art of Applying® in November 2017, just two months before the deadline for the MBA programs she thought would be the right fit.

She got waitlisted to just one of the schools she applied to and could have given up on her grad school dream. But she had some powerful insights during that first application process, some on her own, and some through her work with The Art of Applying®. As she recalls, changing the letters MBA to MPP on her essay made her goals make so much more sense.

And guess what happened? She got accepted everywhere she wanted to go, including the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy, where she’s now attending with a full-ride scholarship.

“I didn't give up,” she reports proudly. “Part of me very well could have been, ‘forget this, it's not gonna work out for me. I’ll apply to something maybe easier to get into’ … I could have very well gone to a lower-ranked MBA or MPP program. I think it feels good that I didn't lose persistence and that I took time, because I think sometimes our own timelines get in our way.”

So while a 2018 entry into an MBA program wasn’t in Karla’s plan, a 2019 entry into an MPP program most definitely was.

Start Date: November 2017 | End Date: May 2018

Applicant Information
Latina
First-generation American and first-generation college student
School: University of Chicago
GPA: 3.6
GMAT: 550
GRE: 310

Acceptances
University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy
University of California Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy
University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Scholarships & Fellowships

Full tuition scholarship
Attending
USC Price School