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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone from the West Coast, USC has improved rather dramatically over the last decade or so.  Used to be not well respected academically, big sports school and typically wealthy students who did not get into UCLA.  Not even close to Stanford, Berkeley or UCSD, and probably the Pomona Colleges.  But it is improved -- not top 25 nationally in any serious sense but a good conservative school in a not great LA location.  I would suspect that it is very heavily CA in students and placement outcomes, and not sure why someone would travel far and away to go there, other than if you were interested in getting away or for the sports.[/quote]

I agree with this, born and bred in California, went to college there and taught at USC's law school.  It was not considered a serious school at all when I graduated from high school.  Far below the ones listed below.  The joke was that the USC kids in convocation line compared dates when UCLA rejected them.  It's in a horrid area of Los Angeles.  The Greek scene is serious and ridiculously silly.  A niece of mine completed two years at a community college and then transfered in - she said that she was going to rush but the moment she really saw it she was appalled.  She did graduate (took 3 more years) and is now in debt.  It's called the University of Spoiled Children because it is expensive; if you are a legacy, you are in; and the kids really do dress and drive flashy cars.  I would never spent the money to send my kids there.  It's superficiality at its worst.  I'm actually stunned to see it mentioned here as a "good" or "top" school.

The Law School places only in firms with graduates (lots) in Los Angeles.  But not nationally.

It does, however, have a great film school.  [/quote]

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