USC - East Coast Student Experience?

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Anonymous wrote:USC student was beaten to death with a bat a few months ago - there is unsafe and then there is USC. Stay away.

The other private schools in California are weird or just not worth it. The UC system is the way to go.

If DC is set on California, you can apply to all the UC schools with a single application and see which ones you get into.

CA has the most desired private school in the nation (stanford) and by many counts the best SLAC in the nation (pomona....yes, better than AWS because it is as good as those three without the stress and shitty weather).

So no, the other private schools in CA are not 'weird'.

Have you been to Claremont? nice weather only goes so far.

No quibble with Stanford, if your DC can get in go for it!

Claremont is an extremely nice town.

this - claremont is one of the nicest towns in the country.

The only reason why I would tell a student to go to williams or amherst is if he/she wants to work in finance in new york post graduation. Otherwise pomona is just as good of a slac without negatives of the aws schools.

Claremont is "nice?" - what does that mean? It's like an extended parking lot in a desert.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:USC student was beaten to death with a bat a few months ago - there is unsafe and then there is USC. Stay away.

The other private schools in California are weird or just not worth it. The UC system is the way to go.

If DC is set on California, you can apply to all the UC schools with a single application and see which ones you get into.

And UVA has apparently had a number of sexual assaults of women by strangers they encountered on the street recently, as well as at least one highly-publicized alleged abduction of a young woman. At USC, the extraordinarily high level of security and electronic vigilance -- not only throughout the campus, but also on every adjacent neighborhood street -- made it possible to capture the alleged perpetrators of the aforementioned crime, by image, vehicle and license plate identification, the very next day. All colleges have crimes, and many colleges experience terrible violence, USC is no exception, but they work above-and-beyond to keep their students safe.

I suppose it's reassuring to some that you can watch the video of the assault on your DC, but I'd prefer a campus where such crimes are prevented, not recorded -- and there are hundreds of them - but not USC or UVA.

No sensible person thinks that all campuses are equally. There might be some form of crime on every campus, but there are marked differences in safety. I can't understand why UVa seems to be unsafe, but for USC it's the neighborhood

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We used to live in California. Every year there was a big sporting event held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum complex area of the USC campus. I would always drive my children there in the morning -- girls and boy ranging from age 8 to 13 -- take a morning run through the campus and adjacent streets, and return home. I would come back to pick up my children in the late afternoon or early evening, at which time I might take an afternoon walk through the campus if they were not yet done. Oh, and my children were given money so that they could walk to the main commercial street of South Figueroa just past the museums at Expo Park for lunch with their friends and their parents.

My point is that once you have lived in Los Angeles you know that you need to be careful and aware of your surroundings at USC, but that it deserves nowhere near the levels of hysteria that many posters here attribute to it. I left my children there unattended by me (but as part of a larger sports group which included other adults and coaches) many times over the years.

The campus also hosts families picnicking, soccer tournaments, farmer's markets, weddings, and wonderful outdoor concerts most summer weekends.

USC is in the same safety category as schools like Chicago, Columbia, Penn, and Yale, among others. You should be aware and alert and responsible.

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Anonymous wrote:USC student was beaten to death with a bat a few months ago - there is unsafe and then there is USC. Stay away.

The other private schools in California are weird or just not worth it. The UC system is the way to go.

If DC is set on California, you can apply to all the UC schools with a single application and see which ones you get into.

CA has the most desired private school in the nation (stanford) and by many counts the best SLAC in the nation (pomona....yes, better than AWS because it is as good as those three without the stress and shitty weather).

So no, the other private schools in CA are not 'weird'.

Have you been to Claremont? nice weather only goes so far.

No quibble with Stanford, if your DC can get in go for it!

Claremont is an extremely nice town.

this - claremont is one of the nicest towns in the country.

The only reason why I would tell a student to go to williams or amherst is if he/she wants to work in finance in new york post graduation. Otherwise pomona is just as good of a slac without negatives of the aws schools.

Claremont is "nice?" - what does that mean? It's like an extended parking lot in a desert.

Claremont looks like what you would expect a cozier, smaller Stanford to look like. It is quite lovely.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC student was beaten to death with a bat a few months ago - there is unsafe and then there is USC. Stay away.

The other private schools in California are weird or just not worth it. The UC system is the way to go.

If DC is set on California, you can apply to all the UC schools with a single application and see which ones you get into.

CA has the most desired private school in the nation (stanford) and by many counts the best SLAC in the nation (pomona....yes, better than AWS because it is as good as those three without the stress and shitty weather).

So no, the other private schools in CA are not 'weird'.

Have you been to Claremont? nice weather only goes so far.

No quibble with Stanford, if your DC can get in go for it!

Claremont is an extremely nice town.

this - claremont is one of the nicest towns in the country.

The only reason why I would tell a student to go to williams or amherst is if he/she wants to work in finance in new york post graduation. Otherwise pomona is just as good of a slac without negatives of the aws schools.

Claremont is "nice?" - what does that mean? It's like an extended parking lot in a desert.

Claremont looks like what you would expect a cozier, smaller Stanford to look like. It is quite lovely.

Parking lot in a desert is an apt description.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC student was beaten to death with a bat a few months ago - there is unsafe and then there is USC. Stay away.

The other private schools in California are weird or just not worth it. The UC system is the way to go.

If DC is set on California, you can apply to all the UC schools with a single application and see which ones you get into.

CA has the most desired private school in the nation (stanford) and by many counts the best SLAC in the nation (pomona....yes, better than AWS because it is as good as those three without the stress and shitty weather).

So no, the other private schools in CA are not 'weird'.

Have you been to Claremont? nice weather only goes so far.

No quibble with Stanford, if your DC can get in go for it!

Claremont is an extremely nice town.

this - claremont is one of the nicest towns in the country.

The only reason why I would tell a student to go to williams or amherst is if he/she wants to work in finance in new york post graduation. Otherwise pomona is just as good of a slac without negatives of the aws schools.

Claremont is "nice?" - what does that mean? It's like an extended parking lot in a desert.

Claremont looks like what you would expect a cozier, smaller Stanford to look like. It is quite lovely.

Parking lot in a desert is an apt description.

You have clearly never visited Claremont, it is what you picture that Stanford would look like if you have never been there. Southern California is hot, and dry, and it has many, many roads and highways, so perhaps your point of view reflects your general distaste for the area, rather than a criticism of the school in particular. If so, then fine, to each his own taste, but the millions who live there reflect an alternative point of view.

Visit Claremont, orange groves, green lawns, citrus trees, flowers in bloom all year, and a lovely mountain backdrop for its beautiful Spanish Mission style architecture.

[Anonymous]

Stanford w/o Silicon Valley is no great shakes

[Anonymous]

USC and UCLA have beautiful campuses. But Pepperdine has the best view.