More than 64,000 students applied for admission to the undergraduate class entering in 2018, with 12.9% being admitted. Among enrolled freshman for Fall 2017, the interquartile range for SAT composite scores was 1300 – 1500 and the average unweighted GPA was 3.76. Thirty-four percent of the accepted students in 2018 had perfect GPAs of 4.0 and 60 percent scored in the 99th percentile on standardized tests. There were 257 National Merit Scholarship Program enrolled during the 2016-17 academic year (including 60 recipients of the prestigious National Merit $2,500 Scholarship), ranking USC third in the nation. USC was ranked the 10th most applied to university in the nation for fall 2014 by U.S. News & World Report.. How many percent of students that applied were not admitted?