<p>I made a thread just like this for the University of Texas-Austin, and I believe that them as well as USC are being cheated out of the CC prestige that colleges such as Michigan, Virginia, UCLA, Notre Dame, and many more share that we deserve.</p>
<p>I say we put these 2 very deserving schools up on the top of the homepage, who's with me?</p>
<p>We should all go on a hunger strike until this happens!!!</p>
<p>We have tried this before but no success...
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/393797-why-doesnt-cc-list-usc-top-university.html?highlight=university%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-southern-california/393797-why-doesnt-cc-list-usc-top-university.html?highlight=university</a></p>
<p>But I do agree!</p>
<p>Hunger strike commencing! :p</p>
<p>I would totally hunger strike, but my appetite is too big even when I eat food...I'm on strike from...uhh...whatever. USC does deserve to be moved, as well as some of the other schools that JuanEatsPandas mentioned.</p>
<p>I don't agree with UT-Austin. Great school, but you have to draw the line somewhere. USC should definitely be included though.</p>
<p>Isn't it more based on the popularity of a certain school on CC?</p>
<p>I too started a thread on College Admissions, that was quickly relegated to the the obscurity of "Forum and Community Issues."</p>
<p>I have links for the data, at the original thread.</p>
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Why isn't USC a "CC Top University"?
Could someone please explain why USC isn't a CC Top University? Based on any number of measures, it has as much validity as a top university as do several others.</p>
<p>If you match USC next to other private CC Top Universities, such as Carnegie-Mellon, Emory and Vanderbilt, USC appears to have equivalent 25-75% SAT's, and this among a much larger student body.</p>
<p>USC has significantly higher SAT's than top CC publics UCLA, UNC and Michigan. USC's SAT's even edge out UC Berkeley, and no one is going to be pushing Cal off the top university list.</p>
<p>Even though the USC Subforum is relegated to the obscurity of S in the Alphabetic List of Colleges (found only after not finding USC in U or C), USC still manages to be a CC heavyweight in number of posts.</p>
<p>USC: ( 62,093 Posts | 5,696 Topics )</p>
<p>Carnegie-Mellon: ( 21,662 Posts | 2,470 Topics )</p>
<p>Emory: ( 19,964 Posts | 2,353 Topics )</p>
<p>Vanderbilt: ( 14,128 Posts | 1,777 Topics )</p>
<p>So, if there is a rationale other than inertia that USC is not a CC Top University, maybe someone can make the case, based on objective criteria. As far as I can tell, either Carnegie-Mellon, Emory, Vanderbilt, UNC, UCLA and Michigan don't belong on the list, or USC does.
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Isn't it more based on the popularity of a certain school on CC?
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<p>It it were, USC would be on any top list, as it has a lot of posts. The rationale is explained here (from the thread I linked above).</p>
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How about having some fun by running a CC tournament to establish the "CC Top University" list?</p>
<p>We discussed this on the moderation team. The consensus response is for all users of CC to take home this message: the listing of certain colleges as top LACs and certain universities as top universities is ultimately ARBITRARY. There is debatability at the margins about what universities belong on the list. In particular, no one affiliated with CC advocates that a college applicant should only consider universities on that list and disregard other universities. There are a lot of universities worth applying to.</p>
<p>Readers of this thread who would like to describe their favorite college or university are invited to visit the</p>
<p>Emphasize the Positive about Some College You Like</p>
<p>thread to say factual things about the colleges they like best.
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<p>Look up search engine optimization.</p>
<p>e39m5</p>
<p>Relax. It's not some comprehensive, scientific ranking. It was just an arbitrary list drawn up back when CC was founded. It hasn't been, and apparently won't be, revised or updated.</p>
<p>Part of the problem I suppose is that do matter where you draw the line, someone is going to just miss the cut and complain about it. If you keep expanding the list to mollify complainers, you eventually end up with a list of all schools.</p>
<p>But why have an arbitrary list? As cc has become more established and popular, why not establish a standard, make it transparent, and adjust accordingly? If they choose to use USN&WR rankings (which I do not propose--but such a method is at least verifiable), we are all clear. If they choose to do their own ranking based upon # of postings in CC forums over the past year, or perhaps a combo formula mixing the two, that still works better than the lame arbitrary "this is the way it is" method. The idea cc just concocted a list at some point based on their own preferences puts their bias out there--and it projects that bias to future college applicants, current students, and other media who watch cc as a guidepost.</p>
<p>"But why have an arbitrary list?"</p>
<p>The Top Universities category drives traffic to the website. CC is for-profit, so traffic is a good thing. Explain to them how adding USC as a Top University will bring in profit, and maybe they'll bite. Otherwise, it's just extra work for the administrators that isn't necessary, especially since about 90% of the visitors probably only log on for 7 months before they're done with the website.</p>
<p>fastpass, you're absolutely right. But the fact of the matter is, USC brings more traffic than most of the schools on this website. The best way to assess traffic is by comparing how many posts have been made on a given school's forum. Of the private schools listed under CC Top Universities, only Stanford has more posts than USC. USC's 65,000+ posts are even on par with Ivys Brown and Dartmouth. Clearly, USC has a faithful base in the College Confidential community. By adding USC to the list of Top Universities, it will provide a more seamless path for these loyal users to continue to use College Confidential as their primary source for information pertaining to their school. The Trojans feel that their school is a Top University, and I think it's time for College Confidential to step up and consider that possibility as well.</p>