<p>I know. Considering the rate at which EVERYTHING is growing these days, I can't imagine what anything will be like even 5 years from now, which actually is fckn exciting..</p>
<p>yeah i know...with every passing day i here so many new cool things about USC....my infatuation just dosnt seem to end....I just cant wait to send in my deposit</p>
<p>In terms of med-school, which school is looked at with more respect, UCLA or USC?</p>
<p>UCLA shows that it can't restrain those kids... (the ones that looked at Britney Spear's medical records)</p>
<p>But I'm biased.</p>
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<p>Medical school does not care for undergraduate, either one will get you into a good medical school. Medical school cares about GPA/MCAT. I think you'll find more pre-med types at UCLA, hence more competition. But my suggestion is to save your money for medical school, they are expensive, go for the cheapest option you can afford.</p>
<p>UCLA has the superior medical school: But USC just invested nearly a BILLION dollars in new medical facilities and as the story is time and time again: they are improving their reputation rapidly. </p>
<p>As far as getting into a medical school: USC or UCLA will both provide you with ample opportunity. As previously mentioned, what really matters is your GPA and your MCAT score.</p>
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<p>Really? County USC still looks like a pre-war dump.</p>
<p>^^ They're moving to a new $800 million site this June. </p>
<p>^ Very nice... I drive by it on the freeway nearly every day and hadn't noticed the construction ;)</p>
<p>More hospital rooms for uninsured illegal immigrants...hooray!</p>
<p>I respect USC a great deal and it definitely would be an awesome school to attend, but isn't the fact that it's on par with UCLA the main problem. Look at Stanford and Berkeley, one is private and the other public. Both schools are considered rivals just like USC-UCLA, but Stanford is obviously considered the more prestigious of the two by a long shot. With all the boasting coming out of USC, shouldn't it be far ahead in rankings over a "pitiful public school" such as UCLA? Instead, it always seems to be right there with it, neck and neck.</p>
<p>USC will improve. it's just gotta boost its academic reputation up from the "party school" it's been known for since the 80's.</p>
<p>wait a little, im sure it'll go up. ;D</p>
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<p>While I agree that Stanford is considered more prestigious than Berkeley (mainly due to it's smaller size, bigger endowment, and more selective nature), Berkeley is on par with Stanford when it comes to depth and breadth of top academic programs and faculty achievements.</p>
<p>wow, phear me, your just killin it, bro</p>
<p>im an alumni. class of 07. and i just go an inside scoop on USC's rep in the ibank industry:</p>
<p>one of USC's trustees is a Goldman Sachs MD. i got word from an alumni i know who is on the board of trustees that this GS MD board member was pressured by USC marshall's administration to recruit more USC alums. currently, GS only takes in 2-5 USC alums. in the next few years, GS should be taking in 10-20 USC alums. it might not look like it, thats actually really significant. the ibanking community is very small, and word will get out. the rest of the bulge bracket should follow GS's lead, and REALLY start recruiting actively on campus. USC may even become a 'target school'.</p>
<p>What does it mean "target school"?</p>
<p>A top school to recruit from. Like Wharton, Harvard Business, Haas, etc. </p>
<p>That's pretty sick, TrojanMan. I assume you went into i-banking?</p>
<p>nope, but i almost did. i do real estate.</p>
<p>Well, it’s been 2 years and ucla still tops USC in the rankings. Maybe the financial crisis will change things.</p>
<p>This is an old thread, but here is some additional information.</p>
<p>SC, as many private universities, publishes admissions data on the UCAN site. Also, SC publishes on their website a complete freshmen profile including test scores, locations of students, application numbers, acceptance numbers, etc. It is an entire page of information. This can be found in the undergraduate admissions site under freshmen profile.</p>
<p>UCLA students mention superscoring. The ACT numbers are NOT superscored. Both universities use the same system:</p>
<p>For the enrolled 2008-2009 class ACT Composite:</p>
<p>UCLA 25-31
USC 28-33</p>
<p>It has been mentioned about the difficulty of obtaining classes at UCLA/CAL. Here is the date of an article from the NY Times which you can access, Oct. 26, 2009. The writer quotes students about the problems of obtaining classes. The title of the article is, “At Public Universities Less for More”.</p>
<p>The USNews Ranking, to which an overwhelming majority of people refer when the discussion of prestige and selectivity comes in, allocates about 25% (until 2007, and I am not entirely sure about the most recent criteria data) of its ranking criteria to what is called “Peer Evaluation”.</p>
<p>I think UCLA is like 4.2, whereas USC is around 4.0, but correct me if I am wrong.</p>
<p>The peer evaluation factor is, interestingly, both BS and legit. It is BS because it surveys a group of academic elitists (deans, provosts, president, etc, of many schools) on the perceived prestige of other schools. In a way, it is based on a mere impression, which is not exactly scienctific based. </p>
<p>But it is legit, after all, because when one talks about which school is “better” or “more academically prestigious”, there is no scienctific way to accurately or fairly assess the academic prestige factor. </p>
<p>If you want to use SAT as a good indicator, then Caltech is the best school, even blowing away HYSP. If you want to use incoming freshmen’s high school GPA as a barometer, UCLA and UCB should be in top 15. If you want to use the job prospect factor within the working proximity of school location, then USC should be in top 5. If you want to use the publications and research data producing factor, then all those self-claimed research institutions will conquer the rankings, putting XYZ State University ahead of Williams, Amherst, etc.</p>
<p>So the USNEWS did the next best thing to formulate its personal and customized and hence highly subjective and comical ranking to soothe the itching needs of all those anxious people: to ask our most knowledgable people in the community of elite educational institutions. :)</p>
<p>USC is still within the striking range of top 20 but not quite within the range, simply because many people follow the USNEWS, consciously or subconsciously and USNEWS has been using the peer evaluation factor as the most primary one.</p>
<p>I believe that one good indicator that USC has been and will be entering the prime national scene is the tremendous growth of the pool of students from the East Coast applying to USC. </p>
<p>Last year, the percentage growth of those NY and NJ students applying to USC hit the double digit mark, I believe, for the first time in the school history.</p>
<p>How does Marshall compare to Tepper, Ross, Stern, etc.?</p>