@Steglitz90 i don’t think that is entirely true about USC. I believe many kids go to Santa Monica City College (CC) and live in apartments near USC (with other USC kids), and then can do the guaranteed transfer. I know of a few kids who tried to hang out with the USC kids and frats and do the USC stuff (like football games) and lived in off campus USC apartments to feel like they were at USC. But, they went to SMCC and then transfered. But yes, I know of 3 that went to the American U in Paris and then transfered as well. On that end, I would agree those families were “rich”