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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a Los Angeles area prep school.

USC was where a whole bunch of really mediocre rich kids went--they took the easiest classes at the school, etc.

To try to balance out these kids, USC would offer merit scholarships (and in a couple cases, the opportunity to leave high school an year early and enroll as a freshman at USC) to the very top students. [/quote]

5 strong students I know applied to USC the same year. None of them got in. USC lies and tells  you they get so many qualified applicants when really they are letting in criminals.  USCheat is what the school should be called.

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LA prep school person again. Yeah, USC had a huge chunk of rich legacy kids (they love legacies) that weren't very impressive--they took the easiest classes, zero honors or AP classes, zero impressive extracurriculars to speak of but they had parents that went there or were pretty well known. Then there were kids who got in for the merit scholarships to balance them out, these were kids who were in the top 10 students in our class and National Merit Scholars. A lot of solid students that fell in between these two groups were denied.[/quote]

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