Anonymous wrote:University of Student Carens. Private universities have the luxury of tweaking the variables that can boost their US News ranking much more quickly than public universities. No private university is more adept than gaming the US News ranking system than the University of Spoiled Children. Their 12% acceptance rate is laughable. In reality, it is 38%. I analyzed the scattergrams for acceptances and rejections for My child's high school. USC rejected a ton of applicants whose SAT scores were over 1460. Why would USC reject applicants with SAT scores that are so much higher than the USC mean? The answer is that USC analytics predicted that kids with very high SATs were using USC as a safety school and would go to Stanford, UC Berkeley, an Ivy, or Ivy equivalent. That is how USC artificially and unethically inflates its yield rate, while shrinking its acceptance rate. I don't know for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if two of the variables that US News uses to rank universities are acceptance and yield rates.
My kid is going through a love affair with USC, and hasn't even seen the campus and what a total shithole LA is. By available objective measures, USC is on the same level as University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, University of Florida, University of Washington, or University of Illinois. However, USC ranking is much higher.
Truly. Kind of makes you wonder when someone revives a year-plus-old thread to spew bile. I guess they don’t live in sunny, happy Southern California. Maybe it would lower their BP if they did.
USC is ranked highly in film and music, and cuts tuition in half for NMFs to draw some spectacularly talented students. Good for them, I say.
DP- Born and raised there. Grew up a couple of miles from UCLA in Brentwood, attended undergrad at UCLA and USC for grad school. The vast majority of LA and the Valley is indeed a shithole. Unless you live on the North and South side of the San Mo Mountains from Los Feliz to the Pacific Palisades in the Sunset Corridor it's garbage. Even the West LA corridor between Venice and Santa Monica is spiraling into oblivion. Still good North of Wilshire and Montana but the rest is getting rough.
Standing in the so-called shithole now - born, raised and still here. The rumors of California's demise are greatly exaggerated and I just returned from a 4-state college trip with my DC that showed that things are good and bad all over BUT at least we aren't freezing our asses off here. So I'd say we still have a +1 in our column.
Anonymous wrote:University of Student Carens. Private universities have the luxury of tweaking the variables that can boost their US News ranking much more quickly than public universities. No private university is more adept than gaming the US News ranking system than the University of Spoiled Children. Their 12% acceptance rate is laughable. In reality, it is 38%. I analyzed the scattergrams for acceptances and rejections for My child's high school. USC rejected a ton of applicants whose SAT scores were over 1460. Why would USC reject applicants with SAT scores that are so much higher than the USC mean? The answer is that USC analytics predicted that kids with very high SATs were using USC as a safety school and would go to Stanford, UC Berkeley, an Ivy, or Ivy equivalent. That is how USC artificially and unethically inflates its yield rate, while shrinking its acceptance rate. I don't know for sure, but wouldn't be surprised if two of the variables that US News uses to rank universities are acceptance and yield rates.
My kid is going through a love affair with USC, and hasn't even seen the campus and what a total shithole LA is. By available objective measures, USC is on the same level as University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, University of Florida, University of Washington, or University of Illinois. However, USC ranking is much higher.
Truly. Kind of makes you wonder when someone revives a year-plus-old thread to spew bile. I guess they don’t live in sunny, happy Southern California. Maybe it would lower their BP if they did.
USC is ranked highly in film and music, and cuts tuition in half for NMFs to draw some spectacularly talented students. Good for them, I say.
DP- Born and raised there. Grew up a couple of miles from UCLA in Brentwood, attended undergrad at UCLA and USC for grad school. The vast majority of LA and the Valley is indeed a shithole. Unless you live on the North and South side of the San Mo Mountains from Los Feliz to the Pacific Palisades in the Sunset Corridor it's garbage. Even the West LA corridor between Venice and Santa Monica is spiraling into oblivion. Still good North of Wilshire and Montana but the rest is getting rough.
Standing in the so-called shithole now - born, raised and still here. The rumors of California's demise are greatly exaggerated and I just returned from a 4-state college trip with my DC that showed that things are good and bad all over BUT at least we aren't freezing our asses off here. So I'd say we still have a +1 in our column.
I am who you are replying to. I now live in Malibu so technically not LA, you have your opinion and I have mine. If I had to live outside of Malibu and any of the places I previously mentioned I would not live here. I would venture to say you don't live in Watts, South Central, East LA, the Central Valley, Inglewood, NE Torrance or Carson. So yeah, your life is good.
Anonymous wrote:USC has taken the middle of the pack kids from our DMV Big 3/5 private this year. I thought it was a lot more selective before seeing who’s getting in!!
SAME. I’m in California. We’re shocked at the kids getting in. Good for them! Ultimately most kids decline because it’s so expensive. I wonder if they are looking at ability to pay a little more?
Anonymous wrote:USC takes a ton of transfer students every year. Just another way to game the system to make it look more elite. Of course, it’s working.
This! 3600 enrolled freshmen each year with a total of 21,000 undergraduates. You do the math. It’s embarrassing how they play the system.
Anonymous wrote:USC has taken the middle of the pack kids from our DMV Big 3/5 private this year. I thought it was a lot more selective before seeing who’s getting in!!
SAME. I’m in California. We’re shocked at the kids getting in. Good for them! Ultimately most kids decline because it’s so expensive. I wonder if they are looking at ability to pay a little more?
Anonymous wrote:USC has taken the middle of the pack kids from our DMV Big 3/5 private this year. I thought it was a lot more selective before seeing who’s getting in!!
SAME. I’m in California. We’re shocked at the kids getting in. Good for them! Ultimately most kids decline because it’s so expensive. I wonder if they are looking at ability to pay a little more?
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