USC slashing benefits for NMF

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:From the USC subreddit:

They've cut a lot of funding for programs, student scholarships, faculty pay/raises, and miscellaneous things (library hours, etc.). No one except a few people in upper admin really knows how bad it is; the deficit this year was 158 million but USC suffered 586 million during covid and there weren't substantial changes like this, so people suspect things are worse than USC makes it appear.

The Faculty are trying to unionize and have issued resolutions to admin to try and get more transparency about the budget situation, but admin doesn't really bite.

+1. This. It's a serious situation. Meanwhile costs of attendance has surpassed $95k a year

Do you have a student enrolled at USC?

It was announced Nov 20 that USC spent 158 milllion more that it took in last year. How is that not serious?

If you don't have a kid there, what do you care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

And don't forget, they have spring admissions too where they try and hide their lesser academically oriented freshman.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

Also only 41% submitting test scores? They won't become test required yet for a reason.

[Anonymous]

USC is a top 25 school and some doofus is trying to bag on it? Am I missing something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC is a top 25 school and some doofus is trying to bag on it? Am I missing something?

ah yes,#27 yet #65 in best values? Something doesn't add up like the school's finances.

[Anonymous]

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-southern-california-1328/overall-rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

Also only 41% submitting test scores? They won't become test required yet for a reason.

They get a lot of apps from their own state. Many California kids don't test because their publics are test blind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

USC is more popular with young people than you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

USC is more popular with young people than you think.

There seems to be one part trolling and one part ignorance with some of these comments. USC is the dominant private college in the entirety of southern California. There is usually a binary choice for a huge swath of applicants- the UC system or USC. Look at USC's SAT averages over the past decade. They aren't getting academic slackers. With Keck medical, Marshall school of business, the film programs, it is one of the top schools in the country. The trollers and the ignorami will keep pretending otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

Also only 41% submitting test scores? They won't become test required yet for a reason.

They aren’t test required because half the class is Californians and the rate of test taking there is substantially below the national average because the UCs are test blind.

[Anonymous]

USC could entirely drop its national merit scholarships at this point. Top kids at our private would love to go there but with their 10 percent admission rate (and no break for applying early), it’s been a very difficult admit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah. It might as well fold up shop now.

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise. They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision. Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC. without merit money to boot.

USC is more popular with young people than you think.

There seems to be one part trolling and one part ignorance with some of these comments. USC is the dominant private college in the entirety of southern California. There is usually a binary choice for a huge swath of applicants- the UC system or USC. Look at USC's SAT averages over the past decade. They aren't getting academic slackers. With Keck medical, Marshall school of business, the film programs, it is one of the top schools in the country. The trollers and the ignorami will keep pretending otherwise.

This is one thing I deeply dislike about this forum. All of this is true AND it is also having financial issues which is failing its students. I have a child at USC. It’s a wonderful institution and has put a lot of work into improving its national reputation. But it also is riddled with scandals and debt issues that often spoil the experience.