WaPo Story on Marshall Student Accpeted to USC at 16 - Read This if DC Did Not Get Into TJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why should a 16 year old attend college anyway?
She's clearly bright, but there is a big difference between bright and gifted.

They usually find out when they get there. Before then, they usu believe they are the outliers. Outliers don't go to schools like that unless it's a full ride for a difficult/competitive program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC is a great school, but it kind of has that "rich kid" GW vibe, while UCLA has the better academic reputation. On the other hand, the WASPy culture of USC may be on the way out, as the student body is becoming more diverse today. The percentage of Asian students has been steadily going up, and the school has put a lot of effort into recruiting students from China, South Korea, etc.

Yes, my DH also describes USC as essentially a better GW (compliments to both schools).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program. According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12. For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up.
Woah. The football team costs 23 million. The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out. Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq? If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City? I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

I am fairly certain that she has received a full ride scholarship. Also, I believe that USC is consistently ranked above GMU across all categories. I respect both schools though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

Are these descriptions exaggerations? If indeed south central Los Angeles is this dangerous, shouldn't the National Guard be sent in to patrol the streets? What is an equivalent neighborhood in terms of crime in this area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program. According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12. For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up.
Woah. The football team costs 23 million. The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out. Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq? If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City? I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?

Like the LA poster you are conflating Los Angeles the city, and the particular neighborhood under discusion - South Central LA. The later is dangerous. Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica etc. not a problem to visit. reminds me of a neighbor who heard of all the violence in Mexico and asked if she should cancel her vaction plans for Cancun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

Are these descriptions exaggerations? If indeed south central Los Angeles is this dangerous, shouldn't the National Guard be sent in to patrol the streets? What is an equivalent neighborhood in terms of crime in this area?

Crime has been targeted at the students and the National Guard has been called out before - for the Watts riots and the Rodney King riots. The place is a powder keg.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program. According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12. For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up.
Woah. The football team costs 23 million. The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out. Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq? If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City? I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?

Like the LA poster you are conflating Los Angeles the city, and the particular neighborhood under discusion - South Central LA. The later is dangerous. Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica etc. not a problem to visit. reminds me of a neighbor who heard of all the violence in Mexico and asked if she should cancel her vaction plans for Cancun.

I posed the question. If you are saying that L.A. Has parts as violent and dangerous as Baghdad, why is this not national news? How can the city possibly keep this extreme violence from pouring over to the other neighborhoods? I would not visit outside of Baghdad either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

Are these descriptions exaggerations? If indeed south central Los Angeles is this dangerous, shouldn't the National Guard be sent in to patrol the streets? What is an equivalent neighborhood in termis of crime in this area?

Crime has been targeted at the students and the National Guard has been called out before - for the Watts riots and the Rodney King riots. The place is a powder keg.

I like to think that I am well-infdrmed, I read the NYT and Wapo daily, listen to NPR, scan Google news -- how is it that I have missed this story about a major city, here in the United States, which is a powder keg, ready to explode, very dangerous, extremely violent, with the National Guard called out recently?

Will someone here who is actually from there please set the record for me.

[Anonymous]

Meant to type "informed" on my tiny phone keys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program. According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12. For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up.
Woah. The football team costs 23 million. The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out. Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq? If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City? I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?

Like the LA poster you are conflating Los Angeles the city, and the particular neighborhood under discusion - South Central LA. The later is dangerous. Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica etc. not a problem to visit. reminds me of a neighbor who heard of all the violence in Mexico and asked if she should cancel her vaction plans for Cancun.

I posed the question. If you are saying that L.A. Has parts as violent and dangerous as Baghdad, why is this not national news? How can the city possibly keep this extreme violence from pouring over to the other neighborhoods? I would not visit outside of Baghdad either.

no - the green zone is an enclosed area with a wall to protect those inside from the dangers without. Kinda like the fence around USC built for the same purpose. Do any other universities have a barrier like that? This was done to protect the students from the crime spilling over from the immediate neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

Are these descriptions exaggerations? If indeed south central Los Angeles is this dangerous, shouldn't the National Guard be sent in to patrol the streets? What is an equivalent neighborhood in termis of crime in this area?

Crime has been targeted at the students and the National Guard has been called out before - for the Watts riots and the Rodney King riots. The place is a powder keg.

I like to think that I am well-infdrmed, I read the NYT and Wapo daily, listen to NPR, scan Google news -- how is it that I have missed this story about a major city, here in the United States, which is a powder keg, ready to explode, very dangerous, extremely violent, with the National Guard called out recently?

Will someone here who is actually from there please set the record for me.

the San Andreas fault hasn't slipped recently. So what? It's there and maybe it's due.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure where people come off saying tuition supports the football program. According to the Orange County Register, USC's football program had revenues of $34 million and expenses of $23 million in 2011-12. For many schools with winning programs, football is a net revenue generator.

O.k., I stand corrected. Thanks for looking that up.
Woah. The football team costs 23 million. The surplus can go fund campus security to build fences to keep the neighborhood thugs out. Place sounds like the Green Zone in Baghdad.

I have not visited Los Angeles, and have spent most of my adult life in this area so I cannot comment on this one way or the other, but -- is Los Angeles really as dangerous and violent as Iraq? If so, shouldn't the media report more on this deterioration of a U.S. City? I was thinking of taking my family on a vacation there, but perhaps I should not?

Like the LA poster you are conflating Los Angeles the city, and the particular neighborhood under discusion - South Central LA. The later is dangerous. Hollywood, Westwood, Santa Monica etc. not a problem to visit. reminds me of a neighbor who heard of all the violence in Mexico and asked if she should cancel her vaction plans for Cancun.

I posed the question. If you are saying that L.A. Has parts as violent and dangerous as Baghdad, why is this not national news? How can the city possibly keep this extreme violence from pouring over to the other neighborhoods? I would not visit outside of Baghdad either.

no - the green zone is an enclosed area with a wall to protect those inside from the dangers without. Kinda like the fence around USC built for the same purpose. Do any other universities have a barrier like that? This was done to protect the students from the crime spilling over from the immediate neighborhood.

The wall may explain how these dangerous, violent, powderkeg of hardened criminals and drug gangs who roam the streets of south central, just waiting for the National Guard to be brought in at any moment, are kept out of USC.

However, how is this enormous security threat kept away from the rest of the city -- is the entire city walled off as well?

[Anonymous]

go to www.studentreviews and type in University of Southern Cal. There are many positive and negative ratings, but the one thing mentioned most in the negative ratings is the lack of campus safety. One person said "know the risk before you come."

[Anonymous]

Be afraid, be very afraid.

To the poster from LA, thanks for diverting this pack of wolves just as they were about to tear a nice, hard-working, intelligent girl (from the OP) to shreads. Anyone who can do that, is good in my book.