Need to make changes after you'vesubmitted your application or have been admittedto a program? No problem. Be aware that some types of updates require a small payment.
Update an Application (Before an Admission Decision)
Addgeneral 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 uploadadditionaldocuments depends on how you submitted your grad school application.
General Graduate School Application
Send additional materials to the Graduate School at gradapp@mailbox.sc.eduand use the subject line "Update Application."
Arnold School of Public Health Application
Follow instructions from your application servicefor document submission. After application verification, email additional documents to the Arnold SchoolGraduate Student Services Office.
Darla Moore Business School Application
Send additional documents togradinfo@moore.sc.edu.
College of Nursing Application
Send additional documents to sranges@mailbox.sc.edu
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 Formto identifyanew 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 ApplicationthroughApplyWeb. You must useyouroriginal account to receive the discounted rate.. The username is the email addressentered 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 wasnot through a Public Health application service and you are interested in changing to a Public Health program, contacttheArnold SchoolGraduate Student Services Officefor instructions.
Requirements
Provide all supporting documents required by the new program. You must select a term when the program is accepting applications.
Fee
$15 (effective for Spring 2024 applicants, waived for Summer 2024 and following terms)
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 aSecond Degree-Seeking ApplicationthroughApplyWeb. You must useyouroriginal account to receive the discounted rate. The username is the email addressentered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through an application serviceother thanthe general graduate school application, contact theGraduate Schoolfora linkto 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 toincrease your chances during reconsideration.
Fee
$15 (effective for Spring 2024 applicants, waived for Summer 2024 and following terms)
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 Formvia 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 theUpdate Request Form via ApplyWeb. (Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.)
Suggestion
Attach an unofficial copy of your USC transcript, found inmy.sc.eduto 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 aSecond Degree-Seeking Application through ApplyWeb. The username is the email address entered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through an application serviceother thanthe general graduate school application, contact theGraduate Schoolfora linkto access the secondary application form. Nursing students should contact your program office for instructions.
If initial application wasnot through a Public Health application serviceand you are interested in changing to a Public Health program, contacttheArnold SchoolGraduate Student Services Office for instructions.
For atransfer toa program in the same academic discipline (i.e., enrolled in Physics - PhD, requesting to change toPhysics - 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
$15 (effective for Spring 2024 applicants, waived for Summer 2024 and following terms)
Request entry into a second program while actively pursuing a current program.
Requesting Concurrent Enrollment
Submit aSecond Degree-Seeking Applicationthrough ApplyWeb. You must useyouroriginal account to receive the discounted rate. The username is the email addressentered on the previous application.
If your initial application was through another application service (i.e. Business, Engineering or Public Health), contact theGraduate Schoolfor 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 withyour 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
$15 (effective for Spring 2024 applicants, waived for Summer 2024 and following terms)
Request to enroll as a non-degree student.
Requesting First-Time Non-Degree Enrollment
Use theUpdate Request Formvia ApplyWeb.
Requirements
You musthave 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
$15 (effective for Spring 2024 applicants, waived for Summer 2024 and following terms)
Request to have your non-degree enrollment status reactivated or change starting term for non-degree status after admission
Requesting to Renew Non-Degree Enrollment
Use theUpdate 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 theUpdate Request Formvia 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 pastand you have not enrolled in classes or
- it has been more than 3 years since you attended classes
