USC slashing benefits for NMF

[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.

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.

They're cutting the merit scholarships that attracted the high scorers. They can hide behind test optional, but without the middle class and upper middle class kids that came because of the merit, they're going to revert to being the university of spoiled children

[Anonymous]

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

The hater on this thread is dedicated. Hysterical. 400 scholarships out of 4000 incoming and she’s asserting USC has to buy all the high stats. Um sure, what about the 3600 other students? No binding ED and attains a 43% yield. It would be 60% if the school had burning ED. USC is a desirable school for a lot of people, but hater is jelly so she’s gonna hate.

[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.

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.

They're cutting the merit scholarships that attracted the high scorers. They can hide behind test optional, but without the middle class and upper middle class kids that came because of the merit, they're going to revert to being the university of spoiled children

just like most of the private schools.

[Anonymous]

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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.

+10
Imagine when they have ED1 and ED2

[Anonymous]

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

The hater on this thread is dedicated. Hysterical. 400 scholarships out of 4000 incoming and she’s asserting USC has to buy all the high stats. Um sure, what about the 3600 other students? No binding ED and attains a 43% yield. It would be 60% if the school had burning ED. USC is a desirable school for a lot of people, but hater is jelly so she’s gonna hate.

Did you go to USC?

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf?trk=public_post_comment-text

Freshman class ~3500 students.

Scholarship recipients: ~650

So about 19% of the class is receiving merit scholarships due to test scores. Meanwhile, only 41% submitted test scores.

So yes, it is worse than it appears on paper.

[Anonymous]

Here is USC the last year pre-test optional btw:

https://www.scribd.com/document/392208892/USC-Application-Info-Freshman-Profile-2019

Test scores: 1360 - 1510
23% of the class had a scholarship at the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

The hater on this thread is dedicated. Hysterical. 400 scholarships out of 4000 incoming and she’s asserting USC has to buy all the high stats. Um sure, what about the 3600 other students? No binding ED and attains a 43% yield. It would be 60% if the school had burning ED. USC is a desirable school for a lot of people, but hater is jelly so she’s gonna hate.

Did you go to USC?

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf?trk=public_post_comment-text

Freshman class ~3500 students.b

Scholarship recipients: ~650

So about 19% of the class is receiving merit scholarships due to test scores. Meanwhile, only 41% submitted test scores.

So yes, it is worse than it appears on paper.[/

You seem either slow. It has already been explained multiple time that USC takes a large portion of the class from California and those kids are much less likely to have test scores because the UV system is test blind.

[Anonymous]

It's so unfair that USC attracts so many high SAT scorers.

Could we start a petition to make them stop???

[Anonymous]

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

its ranked 28

[Anonymous]

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

its ranked 28

Pedantic get a life

[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?

They have a $7 Billion endowment. They will be fine.

[Anonymous]

People here are so culty. Every USC alum in my life could hear this news and express the truth that the school has clear financial issues. I’m an alum and that’s obvious.

Why people eschew facts is really puzzling to me

[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?

They have a $7 Billion endowment. They will be fine.

Hey look! It’s another person who doesn’t understand how endowments work…at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

They have a $7 Billion endowment. They will be fine.

Hey look! It’s another person who doesn’t understand how endowments work…at all.

There's huge correlation between school ranking and endowment ranking for reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People here are so culty. Every USC alum in my life could hear this news and express the truth that the school has clear financial issues. I’m an alum and that’s obvious.

Why people eschew facts is really puzzling to me

The difference between Pac12 and Big10 money will make up most of the gap