<p>Listed under C on the alphabetical page so it's near other CA schools! So much easier for CA applicants. Just an idea. A really really good idea in my opinion haha.</p>
<p>??? How about other California schools like Stanford, Santa Clara, University of San Diego, Occidental, Pitzer, Pepperdine, USF, UOP, etc…</p>
<p>All schools in California are not listed under C by cc, and other schools on cc are not listed by their state, so why should USC be?</p>
<p>Southern CALIFORNIA.</p>
<p>This doesn’t make any sense. The schools are listed alphabetically by their name, not by state. I’m not sure how this would make things any better…</p>
<p>Alamemom:</p>
<p>It’s not Stanford U. of California, Pepperdine U. of CA, and U. of SD Ca… etc.</p>
<p>I’m sorry you don’t agree with me and feel the need to correct me on an internet forum so blatantly, but I think plenty of people would agree on my view as well! I was merely making a suggestion that is pretty logical because unlike all the schools you listed, USC has Southern CALIFORNIA in it. For CA applicants like myself, many get annoyed that USC is so far down when it could be listed there with other schools that have CA in their names. Now I understand that yes, SOUTHERN comes first but when I think of SC while searching for it on the list, I always look under C first. I’m positive I’m not alone on this.</p>
<p>So alamemom, please don’t ruffle your feathers too much over this, okay?
Thank you for shooting my simple suggestion down so kindly.
I hope next time if you don’t have anything nice to say, you won’t say it at all :)</p>
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I think most people would look under “S” first, and not “C,” so if it was moved to “C” this would throw even more people off. Sure, you are probably not the only one who looked under “C” first, but I doubt that most people make this mistake. USC isn’t going to get moved because that would be out of alphabetical order. Moving it out of order would just cause more confusion.</p>
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What? alamemom never said anything that was rude. You seem to be the one who has acted rudely and gotten your “feathers ruffled” over this.</p>
<p>It sounded rude to me. So… yes sorry I sound rude too. I just don’t like when people sound like that so sorry if you were not trying to be.
Like I said it was just a suggestion! haha.</p>
<p>Fear not, Lilly9, I will be sure to keep my thoughts to myself on all of your future questions about USC.</p>
<p>You’re all off the mark. CC should make it very easy and simply add USC to “CC Top Universities” where it belongs. Aside from the fact that USC currently has almost 140,000 posts and 14,000 topics, it clearly is among the top 20-25 universities in the country. I mean, come on, for goodness sake, Notre Dame, Emory, Washington U, Rice, Northwestern? They’re all fine universities, but they’re yesterday’s news. USC will soon be considered among the elite institutions along with the likes of Duke. Vandy? Really?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>Reputations take time to rise and fall. The benchmark for me in that regard is Michigan, which historically is about as fine a public university as you’ll find but which has been backsliding for years, no doubt based upon the painfully imploding state upon which it sits.</p>
<p>USC has merely been going through the exact same kind of period of robust growth that Stanford, Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt, etc. went through in past decades. Those schools weren’t always considered elite and what will be interesting for me to see is the change over time in college rankings as America continues to pivot from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I don’t expect Harvard to collapse (though they consider Stanford to be their main rival nowadays) but I do fully expect second rung Northeastern schools like Tufts and Boston College to suffer, just as schools like USC, Pepperdine, the Claremont Colleges, Occidental, Chapman, UOP, Santa Clara, Whitman, Puget Sound, etc. will continue to rise and benefit from their West Coast location.</p>