A totally honest thread...from long long ago

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USC really is in a class by itself here as far as being an old, large, private residential university in the heart of the city. With a sticker price of somewhere around $200K for four years living on campus as an undergrad, I pretty much expect that the students there are generally quite serious and studious. I think I read somewhere that less than 2% of USC students receive a "full ride" in scholarships. Even though it's totally unique I think to some extent for Greeks in California, its sort of seen as the "flagship" of the Greek system.

As far as admssions to Cal and UCLA, I think its been pretty difficult to get into either for some time, and it's not much easier to get into any of the other UC schools. According to my son's HS counseler, even if you qualify for admission to UC with the min GPA, ACT/SAT scores, and have taken all the pre-reqs in HS, meaning 4 years of math, 4 years of English, 4 years of science and social science, 3 years of foreign language, the only schools that guarantee admssion are UC Merced and UC Riverside. So that means if you've taken that many academic courses as a HS student you didn't spend a lot of time in HS taking elective courses like drama or art or music. I think that's pretty impressive!