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Originally Posted by Football Fan
To add to JWSteele's comments.....
Recently, I did a report on SC admissions and a survey of their graduate/undergraduate rankings. According to an official at SC who wrote to me it is just as difficult to be admitted to Cal, UCLA or SC. For those of you out of California SC is a smaller private university. UCLA and Cal are much larger and part of the public Univ. of California system.
For information purposes SC had 33,754 applicants for a freshman class of 2964 (2763 last year)entering in 2007. National Merit Scholars were 220 and 5 were National Achievement Scholars. Unweighted GPA of entering freshmen was 3.7.
For this academic year there were 9 Fulbright Scholars, 1 Marshall Scholar and 1 Rhodes Scholar. It has one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation.
If any of you Trojans wish to PM me I have the rankings of most of the graduate and undergraduate programs.
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When I was in college, it was kindof a joke that USC was for kids that couldn't get into UCLA. But it's not really that way anymore. It has gotten so hard to get into 75% of the UC schools (public) that USC (private) has benefitted from the competition as well. I almost went to USC, but admittedly if I had to apply today with the grades I had in high school, I would probably not get in. And FORGET about UCLA or Cal...you have to split the atom to get in there now. All of the "big name" schools in California - and there are a lot of them - get an insane amount of applications for the small number of spots, meaning they can truly take the cream of the crop. At least with private schools they typically consider a number of other factors beyond gpa and tests, and they generally can be much more subjective in their admissions.
In terms of size, I wouldn't call USC small, though. It's huge compared to my alma mater (3,000 undergrads). It's pretty big for a private university.