<p>ditto title</p>
<p>and are people at usc nice? (i mean as friendly nice)
when I visited there, it felt like the school was literally "rich, white kids'" school. so i kind of got drawn aback.</p>
<p>how are the asian populations there?
and how easy is it to meet un-"rich, white kids'" at usc?</p>
<p>I'm asian
I'm nice
:)</p>
<p>lawl hahaha</p>
<p>Um, it is definitely not a bunch of white kids. In fact, around 50% of the school are minorities. Lots of Asians of course. USC gives a lot of merit aid for smart kids, though there are a lot of rich kids. Which, I'm sorry, but you can expect at any really good school.</p>
<p>USC draws many students from places like Hong Kong and Hawaii, and Southern California itself has a large Asian population. I see all kinds of people when I visit the campus. My daughter's dorm floor alone has about every ethnicity and background you could imagine. I hope you will take a fresh look at USC as it is a very welcoming school.</p>
<p>yes, people here are nice. yes, there are a lot of asians. yes, there are also a lot of rich, white kids. </p>
<p>I kind of have a problem with "rich, white" always being a derogatory term that roughly translates into "snobby, stupid"... that's really quite a provincial, prejudiced attitude... </p>
<p>If I said that I don't like UCLA because it's full of "poor, ethnic" kids, that'd be considered blatantly classist and racist... but if you just switch it around, it's somehow perfectly acceptable.</p>
<p>Forgive my rant. But everyone on this board says this all the time, and it gets old...</p>
<p>i totally agree with the above poster. you go girl/boy!</p>
<p>i hope that usc will be diverse but in a good way. i am white, but certainly not rich and i would be very disappointed to have others judge me as if I was a “rich snobby, stupid” white kid. I hope that USC’s students are a bit less stereotypical than i have heard :]</p>
<p>i come from an almost all asian school so i think ill be able to fit in, in terms of diversity!</p>
<p>At my off campus reception the demographics on the powerpoint for the 2009 entering class were about 39% Asian, 38% White, 11% African American (or was it Latino? lol) and I can’t remember the rest, but you can pretty much fill in the blank. It seems that USC is just as diverse as Los Angeles with a healthy portion of every race, socioeconomic level, and location. There was also about 10% international students, so it seems that people are coming from all spectrum’s of the world.</p>
<p>This is straight from the Freshman Profile on the SC website for the incoming 2008 class.</p>
<pre><code>Latino/Hispanic 14%
International (visa holders) 6%
Asian/Asian American 25%
African American 7%
Native American/Pac. Islander 2%
Caucasian 45%
Not Indicated 1%
</code></pre>
<p>Students came from 1,311 high schools. The highest number of international students came from China, including Hong Kong. Next, in order were Canada, India, U.K., Singapore, Thailand and Turkey.</p>
<p>The latest number I heard is that about 65% of the students are receiving financial aid.</p>
<p>squadus, I know what you’re talking about. One thing to remember though, those statistics are not the ENTERING freshman class, because lots of people haven’t enrolled yet. It’s the acceptance percentages. Meaning, they accepted more Asian people than any other race, hahaha. But those may or may not reflect the enrollment percentages exactly.</p>
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<p>Hispanic guy here whom agrees 100%. Finally someone said it.</p>
<p>@ rosinyangster</p>
<p>Oh yeah, you’re right lol. I meant to say acceptance demographic statistics, not enrolled. =P Haha, I guess most asians tend to go elsewhere judging by the 2008 statistics.</p>