Is USC a good school?

Question

what is their requirements?

im a smartie 4.0 ! im applying for harvard but need a backy

Answer 1

Number wise, USC is a decent school. However, most people outside of the LA area (employers included) view it as a place where the parents of snobby rich kids can pay the school to accept their mediocre son or daughter. The best example of this is when WalMart heiress Elizabeth Lauri paid her roommate $20,000 to do her homework. Her parents donated a LOT of money to USC.

However, despite the negative reputation, I have a few friends that go there and they all really like it. They are getting good educations and there is an excellent career center for job placement (alumni are very loyal and like to hire recent grads).

If you're interested in USC you should definitely visit in person. Although I was never interested in attending USC (most of my family went to UCLA so they would have been devastated) I have been there and I could tell immediately that it would not have been a good fit for me. You need to see if it would be a good fit for you. On a similar note, I highly recommend UC Berkeley (go bears!).

Check USC's website for all their admission requirements. Although I happen to agree with most of what people are posting, you need to form your own opinion about the school. A lot of people are die-hard USC fans for a reason. I know there are people who have the same negative feelings for Cal that I have for USC. Good luck! Happy college hunting!

Answer 2

It's an excellent school. It's primary disadvantage is location and price (if you're a CA resident).

4.0 certainly doesn't guarantee admittance into Harvard. My high school class had about 19 people with an unweighted 4.0 GPA. SATs all above 1500, I believe (out of 1600). 2 made it to Harvard.

The top schools require more than good grades and scores. If you're in CA, I'd apply to Berkeley and UCLA as backups to Harvard in addition to USC. USC really is only advantageous for business and film at the undergrad level. Berkeley has an awesome undergrad business program that's actually better than USC and UCLA's film department is about as good as USC's so USC's primary advantages can be negated.

Answer 3

US News ranks USC at #27. Three other California schools rank higher (Stanford, Berkeley and UCLA).

Princeton Review says that 75% of students have 1930 or better on their SATs and 85% are in the top 10% of their high school classes.

In short -- it is an excellent school -- but you might be able to do better. If your other qualifications match your GPA, you should be able to get into at least one top ten school.

Answer 4

USC and Harvard have an average GPA much higher than 4.0...

Answer 5

USC is a very good school, as well as expensive, expect many spoiled rich kids and a few celeberties here and there

Answer 6

No. The only requirements:

1) Be really rich
2) Be really pompous

If you have an extra 25 grand a year sitting around, and like living in the ghetto, by all means, apply.

Answer 7

Be unique, Be your self, exude stable character. Have clean suggestions of what the undertaking appears like and this is suppossed to be. do not enable your self to be intimidated. understand who you like and why. don't be a duplicate of all and sundry else obtainable. they elect new, clean and unique. Advices from my cousin who have been given known 2 years in the past.

Answer 8

USC - (University of Spoiled Children)

Independent university, founded 1880
Calendar semesters
Degrees bachelor's, master's, doctoral, first professional, post-master's, postbachelor's, and first professional certificates
Urban 155-acre campus
Endowment $2.7 billion
Coed, 16,897 undergraduate students, 95% full-time, 51% women, 49% men
Most difficult entrance level, 27% of applicants were admitted
Costs (2006 - 07)
Comprehensive fee: $44,036 includes full-time tuition ($33,892) and room and board ($10,144). Full-time tuition and fees vary according to program. Part-time tuition and fees vary according to course load and program
Room and board: Room and board charges vary according to board plan and housing facility
Payment plans: tuition prepayment, installment, deferred payment
Waivers: employees or children of employees
Financial Aid
Of all full-time matriculated undergraduates who enrolled in 2004,: 8,810 applied for aid, 7,086 were judged to have need, 6,568 had their need fully met. 4,632 Federal Work-Study jobs (averaging $2696)
In 2004,: 3062 non-need-based awards were made
Average percent of need met: 100%
Average financial aid package: $28,459
Average need-based loan: $6181
Average need-based gift aid: $18,481
Average non-need-based aid: $12,874
Average indebtedness upon graduation: $19,131
Freshmen
Admission 31,634 applied, 8,418 admitted, 2,741 enrolled
Test scores SAT verbal scores over 500 99%, SAT math scores over 500 100%, ACT scores over 18 100%, SAT verbal scores over 600 86%, SAT math scores over 600 93%, ACT scores over 24 97%, SAT verbal scores over 700 35%, SAT math scores over 700 50%, ACT scores over 30 52%

Answer 9

great school