Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So single digit acceptance rate?

Whoohoo!

Go USC!

It's still USC - the University of Spoiled Children that couldn't get into UCLA.

Maybe for CA residents who can pay instate.

People prefer USC outside of CA

This is not true of all people outside of CA.... Our DC applied to UCLA but not USC.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely insane. USC is not that good to justify those numbers.

It’s horrible, actually.

I grew up in California; moved out 25 years ago. The state just gets worse and worse every year.

I mean, the scenery is nice and all.

But there is no way I would send my child to any school in California.

Standford and USC are the two schools I would send my kid in CA.

What is Standford? Never heard of it.

Do you mean Stanford University in Palo Alto? Or Samford? But Samford is in Alabama.

Never heard of Standford though.

You have terrible skill in educated guessing.
It's an important skill.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely insane. USC is not that good to justify those numbers.

It’s horrible, actually.

I grew up in California; moved out 25 years ago. The state just gets worse and worse every year.

I mean, the scenery is nice and all.

But there is no way I would send my child to any school in California.

Standford and USC are the two schools I would send my kid in CA.

What is Standford? Never heard of it.

Do you mean Stanford University in Palo Alto? Or Samford? But Samford is in Alabama.

Never heard of Standford though.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Genuinely insane. USC is not that good to justify those numbers.

It’s horrible, actually.

I grew up in California; moved out 25 years ago. The state just gets worse and worse every year.

I mean, the scenery is nice and all.

But there is no way I would send my child to any school in California.

Standford and USC are the two schools I would send my kid in CA.

Caltech and Berkeley are the two schools I would send my kid in CA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So single digit acceptance rate?

Whoohoo!

Go USC!

It's still USC - the University of Spoiled Children that couldn't get into UCLA.

Maybe for CA residents who can pay instate.

People prefer USC outside of CA

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So single digit acceptance rate?

Whoohoo!

Go USC!

It's still USC - the University of Spoiled Children that couldn't get into UCLA.

Nope. My child got into both and chose USC. Extraordinary place. Private, unlike UCLA which is an overwhelmingly large, public institution.

Ask any college counselor and you'll hear it's a "reach for everyone." Top students at the top privates are rejected year after year. As hard to get into as an ivy, full of tremendous opportunities, well-funded, beautiful, dedicated faculty, and, yes, incredibly fun too. Widely considered a dream school and a reach for top students. If its not for you, fine, but to suggest its a fallback to UCLA or other public schools is just inaccurate.

USC is great. I do prefer UCLA. I think it’s a prettier campus, better located, and of course less expensive! Academics opportunities, reputation, and networking are excellent at both.

Look up the undergrad population only - usc is way smaller than ucla.

SC throws HEAVY merit scholarship money at top students. National merit scholars that are accepted get half tuition scholarships + an excellent football team during the Pete Carroll years in the late 2000s + SoCal location (there is now a subway that goes straight to Santa Monica) + facilities (campus is beautiful) and it’s really not hard to see how the admit rate has gone down so drastically.

And while there is a party scene and very spoiled rich kids (not dissimilar from Georgetown), I was not part of Greek life and my closest friends were in engineering and pre-med. back in the day when the admit rate was 20%, there were plenty of nerdy kids so I’d imagine there’s even more now.

Total enrollment:

UCLA 46,100

USC. 49,500

I’d say USC is equally overwhelmingly large.

Unless you’re very rich or not instate, I can’t imagine attending USC over UCLA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So single digit acceptance rate?

Whoohoo!

Go USC!

It's still USC - the University of Spoiled Children that couldn't get into UCLA.

Nope. My child got into both and chose USC. Extraordinary place. Private, unlike UCLA which is an overwhelmingly large, public institution.

Ask any college counselor and you'll hear it's a "reach for everyone." Top students at the top privates are rejected year after year. As hard to get into as an ivy, full of tremendous opportunities, well-funded, beautiful, dedicated faculty, and, yes, incredibly fun too. Widely considered a dream school and a reach for top students. If its not for you, fine, but to suggest its a fallback to UCLA or other public schools is just inaccurate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC takes a ton of transfer students every year. Just another way to game the system to make it look more elite. Of course, it’s working.

30% of Berkeley's new admission is transfer
Many from community colleges.

Must be a California thing

Anonymous wrote:USC takes a ton of transfer students every year. Just another way to game the system to make it look more elite. Of course, it’s working.

30% of Berkeley's new admission is transfer
Many from community colleges.

Anonymous wrote:So single digit acceptance rate?

Whoohoo!

Go USC!

It's still USC - the University of Spoiled Children that couldn't get into UCLA.

USC takes a ton of transfer students every year. Just another way to game the system to make it look more elite. Of course, it’s working.

I always lol when these people say I wouldn’t send my kid to this or that school. Meanwhile, their kid probably wouldn’t be accepted anyway and they know it deep inside lol. These haters always have a mouthful even knowing very well their kids can’t keep up. Comedy.

Anonymous wrote:USC = University of Spoiled Children, they'll accept those who can pay

Old view. Not accurate.