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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Princeton
NYU
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
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fyi: [/b]USC is no longer a rich kid joke college - tougher admissions standards than U-Va.[/quote]

No. I taught at USC.  It is still very much University of spoiled children.  Very blonde, attractive, nicer cars than faculty and big into the Greek scene.  It is not a Highly Selective student like Ga Tech and UVA.  It's much more difficult to get into the latter two, which are HIghly Selective as opposed to merely Selective.  Also UVA was just named top public by Business Insider for best Public in the nation, so now outstrips UCLA Berkely and Michigan.  No way would I send my kid to USC  (the one in CA).[/quote]

Lots of misinformation being thrown around. Here’s some things I KNOW to be true.

Regarding USC, I’ve heard things were different as recently as a decade ago, but I can’t speak to the past. In 2016, USC is beyond doubt an elite university – at least Top 25 and HIGHLY selective – 16.5% admission rate. Because they are so much larger, they have more uber-elite students (number not %) on campus than smaller higher ranked schools like Stanford. USC is either the first or second most diverse university in the nation and it shows on campus. Yes, there are Hollywood stars and many that have the looks to be stars, but there are many foreign students who would fit right in at MIT or CalTech.  Like most of the other schools listed above, there is a very large Jewish population and also more Catholics than Notre Dame or Georgetown.

SMU is basically what you’d have if you could extract the “Greek scene” of USC  without the Presidential Scholars, Jewish students, Engineers and Foreign Students. The “average” SMU student is far better looking than any of the other schools mentioned here.

UVA is academically comparable to, but very different from Berkeley, UCLA or Michigan. UCLA students (other than the cheerleaders) won’t win any awards for looks – tough looks are very subjective. All the UC’s have been crippled by budget cuts and have slipped relative to schools like USC. My general impression is that UVA is more like Vandy or USC than it is like the large state schools.
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