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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD attends a top private and is a junior; kids from her school seem to have a growing interest in UCLA and USC. The number attending has been rising the past 3/4 years and over spring break her instagram was filled with LA/California college visit pics.  These are kids that 5 years ago would have gone to an Ivy from her school. Smart kids, honors classes at a top private but not tippy top smart or recruited athletes.  I know USC has long been called "University of Spoiled Children" but these are kds with a very high caliber of academics. [/quote]
[b]2 out of the 5 kids at my DC’s school that got a perfect ACT wound up at USC. I suspect merit aid played a role.[/quote][/b]

Good for them.  I would never send my DCs there - maybe for the film school, but nothing else. Have you been in LA by the airport lately?  It's really unpleasant.  Air quality is bad.  I think USC has come up in the ratings only because east coast kids want to go to the west coast and other than UCLA and Berkeley (which have gotten impossible to get into), there aren't that many other great choices near the coast.  Inland, of course there's the Claremont colleges, but that's a much different feel.[/quote]

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