The entering class includes 3,759 first-year students selected from a record pool of 83,488 first-year applicants. “It’s a big deal that I got in,” said Jacquez, who graduated from Woodrow Wilson Senior High School in Los Angeles. A vibrant mix of viewpointsThe first-year class includes 28% straight-A students, with an additional 11% of the students receiving only one B during their high school careers. Students from California make up 45% of first-year enrollees; 195 of them attended a Los Angeles Unified School District high school. The new crop of Trojans also includes a significant number of students with military affiliation: 40 first-year students plan to participate in USC’s ROTC program.