You could always just use the side door to get in, like a certain washed up '90's sitcom starlet did for her airhead daughters.

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Anonymous wrote:IF you live in LA or want to work in LA, USC provides a lot of access. It seems like everyone went to UCLA or USC. It's like going to SMU if you want to work in Dallas.

it's true LA is a industry town, but .. it's like going to Georgetown if you want to work in DC. It would be naive to think everyone in DC is a diplomat. Tere are a wide variety of jobs and professions in LA. There are all the industry adjacent jobs - like lawyers and accountants and bankers - but also the regular work of a major city: water, infrastructure, education, etc

Plus it is a way better education and there are more resources at the undergrad level (and smaller classes) than UCLA. If you are in-state, sure, but if oos USC is a far superior school than UCLA for undergrad.

No one says that! UCLA is ranked 17 for national universities. USC is way down at 28. UCLA is a serious school. USC is a party school. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ucla-1315

Did you miss they wrote “oos” -? Of course USC is better if out of state. Pell Grants is a big reason UCLA is ranked high. Don’t take rankings so seriously. USC has a phenomenal network, superb professors, smaller class sizes.

Is it worth 100k? No! But, it’s still a great college. And UCLA is great as well, but just different.

Yes. It’s an awesome school, but in the end it’s really just another big state flagship. UCLA has a housing crisis (3 kids crammed into doubles) and a class availability crisis (black market for spots). Its ranking is largely driven by California’s massive population per capita for top UC spots and the grad programs.

UCLA is just another big state flagship like Berkeley and Michigan. In the end you really don’t know what you’re talking about.

Yes. Great value for in state kids, but diploma mills.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned USC perhaps wanting to boost its yield rate by adding ED. It's current yield for the class that just entered was 40.3%, so maybe the desire to increase the yield is part of the equation for USC's administration.

“No one says that! UCLA is ranked 17 for national universities. USC is way down at 28. UCLA is a serious school. USC is a party school”.

We are well beyond the 1980’s. I believe the 5 yrs before Ucla went testblind, USC’s entering class avg SAT was higher then Ucla entering class avg SAT. Stat I saw for class entering ‘24, USC , 7.1% of entering class was NMSF, Ucla 1.1% NMSF. Seems to be a difficult admit from our e.coast prep school. Few acceptances in recent yrs seem to be hi-stat kids with strong artsy ec’s. Plenty of hi-stat strong kids not getting in.

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Anonymous wrote:IF you live in LA or want to work in LA, USC provides a lot of access. It seems like everyone went to UCLA or USC. It's like going to SMU if you want to work in Dallas.

it's true LA is a industry town, but .. it's like going to Georgetown if you want to work in DC. It would be naive to think everyone in DC is a diplomat. Tere are a wide variety of jobs and professions in LA. There are all the industry adjacent jobs - like lawyers and accountants and bankers - but also the regular work of a major city: water, infrastructure, education, etc

Plus it is a way better education and there are more resources at the undergrad level (and smaller classes) than UCLA. If you are in-state, sure, but if oos USC is a far superior school than UCLA for undergrad.

No one says that! UCLA is ranked 17 for national universities. USC is way down at 28. UCLA is a serious school. USC is a party school. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ucla-1315

Did you miss they wrote “oos” -? Of course USC is better if out of state. Pell Grants is a big reason UCLA is ranked high. Don’t take rankings so seriously. USC has a phenomenal network, superb professors, smaller class sizes.

Is it worth 100k? No! But, it’s still a great college. And UCLA is great as well, but just different.

Yes. It’s an awesome school, but in the end it’s really just another big state flagship. UCLA has a housing crisis (3 kids crammed into doubles) and a class availability crisis (black market for spots). Its ranking is largely driven by California’s massive population per capita for top UC spots and the grad programs.

UCLA is just another big state flagship like Berkeley and Michigan. In the end you really don’t know what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:IF you live in LA or want to work in LA, USC provides a lot of access. It seems like everyone went to UCLA or USC. It's like going to SMU if you want to work in Dallas.

it's true LA is a industry town, but .. it's like going to Georgetown if you want to work in DC. It would be naive to think everyone in DC is a diplomat. Tere are a wide variety of jobs and professions in LA. There are all the industry adjacent jobs - like lawyers and accountants and bankers - but also the regular work of a major city: water, infrastructure, education, etc

Plus it is a way better education and there are more resources at the undergrad level (and smaller classes) than UCLA. If you are in-state, sure, but if oos USC is a far superior school than UCLA for undergrad.

No one says that! UCLA is ranked 17 for national universities. USC is way down at 28. UCLA is a serious school. USC is a party school. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ucla-1315

I often wonder who makes such comments. A clueless international student? A family that does not know any better?

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Anonymous wrote:IF you live in LA or want to work in LA, USC provides a lot of access. It seems like everyone went to UCLA or USC. It's like going to SMU if you want to work in Dallas.

it's true LA is a industry town, but .. it's like going to Georgetown if you want to work in DC. It would be naive to think everyone in DC is a diplomat. Tere are a wide variety of jobs and professions in LA. There are all the industry adjacent jobs - like lawyers and accountants and bankers - but also the regular work of a major city: water, infrastructure, education, etc

Plus it is a way better education and there are more resources at the undergrad level (and smaller classes) than UCLA. If you are in-state, sure, but if oos USC is a far superior school than UCLA for undergrad.

No one says that! UCLA is ranked 17 for national universities. USC is way down at 28. UCLA is a serious school. USC is a party school. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/ucla-1315

Did you miss they wrote “oos” -? Of course USC is better if out of state. Pell Grants is a big reason UCLA is ranked high. Don’t take rankings so seriously. USC has a phenomenal network, superb professors, smaller class sizes.

Is it worth 100k? No! But, it’s still a great college. And UCLA is great as well, but just different.

Yes. It’s an awesome school, but in the end it’s really just another big state flagship. UCLA has a housing crisis (3 kids crammed into doubles) and a class availability crisis (black market for spots). Its ranking is largely driven by California’s massive population per capita for top UC spots and the grad programs.