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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USC is so not worth it that it receives tens of thousands more applications than seats, celebrities want to bribe their kids into the school for $500,000, they have one of the highest SAT averages of any school in the country, have a kick butt sports tradition, a top business school, incredible law school.

Yeah.  It might as well fold up shop now.[/quote]

https://admission.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/first-year-student-profile.pdf

43% yield despite massive amounts of merit money thrown at kids who likely would not have attended otherwise.  They buy their way to test scores (that aren't even tippy top anyways) compared to many ivies and more selective privates that give none or minimal merit aid.

But sure, keep calling it impressive.  [/quote]

43% yield is pretty good considering USC does not have binding early decision.  Some T20 colleges take half the class with ED and still have lower yield than that.[/quote]

These are kids who choose the the top 20 schools ED if given a choice over USC.  without merit money to boot.[/quote]

USC is more popular with young people than you think.[/quote]

There seems to be one part trolling and one part ignorance with some of these comments.  USC is the dominant private college in the entirety of southern California.  There is usually a binary choice for a huge swath of applicants- the UC system or USC. [b] Look at USC's SAT averages over the past decade. [/b] They aren't getting academic slackers.  With Keck medical, Marshall school of business, the film programs, it is one of the top schools in the country.  The trollers and the ignorami will keep pretending otherwise.[/quote]

They're cutting the merit scholarships that attracted the high scorers. They can hide behind test optional, but without the middle class and upper middle class kids that came because of the merit, they're going to revert to being the university of spoiled children[/quote]

just like most of the private schools. 
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