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<p>You can’t even remember with whom you had conversation. You had a back-and-forth posting battle with TiaWNPP and a couple others about the safety issue of both campuses. However, it wasn’t me; I wasn’t involved.</p>
<p>And go ahead and ignore the elephant in the room. Your comments about the killer(s) swearing allegiance to UCLA. Get b&bsmom involved and try to turn it into a pedantic conversation of the meaning of it’s a wash, as a diversionary ploy.</p>
<p>If I were “hyper-emotional” wrt the topic – you were mistaken btw, then you were just a little too lighthearted about the killings, in bringing up a subject that was a little too fresh for those families whose kids were slain. If ‘living for once’ was inclusive of joking of these students’ deaths, then leave me out of it.</p>
<p>You rattled off the story of a male student at UCLA slashing the throat of another, a coed, in the Life Sciences building. This man is incredibly bright and would have had a great future as an MD or researcher. In his case, his genius was a little too close to his insanity.</p>
<p>And you simultaneously conveniently forgot about the student who was knived and the coed who was killed by the hit-and-run vehicle near USC in a lack of balance, but I wouldn’t expect anything else from your incoherent tirades. </p>
<p>I went back and caught up on what I missed, and I certainly saw that you were all over this thread, which I missed previously. </p>
<p>Wrt, academics… </p>
<p>In all you cited, re, the comparison of academics between both schools in all your posts, you listed the USN’s rankings as first and foremost and the most relevant. Go ahead and emphasize them and frame them, because this is all you have. </p>
<p>USN’s relies on faulty non-uniform stats that are all over the map wrt the colleges’ reporting of them in various forms including the CDS, which USC coincidentally doesn’t produce. Many colleges won’t even voluntarily report to USN, because of the sham that the publication has become. All of the USN variables can be worked and USC works them constantly, and this includes reportings on SAT’s and class rank. </p>
<p>(Btw, neither UCLA nor Cal has 97%+ top-decile graduates, probably more ~ 80%. Similarly, USC’s is probably at best 50%.) </p>
<p>One of the faults I find with USN’s rankings is its obsession with inputs. The only thing that USN is even remotely concerned in wrt outputs would be % of donor giving. And unlike TiaWNPP’s response to you, it’s evident that these can be worked as Alexandre pointed out on the College Search Board, and many of them do tweak them.</p>
<p>UCLA is most concerned about outputs, even taking under its plan of diversity those students with lesser qualifications, particularly scores, and bringing said students up to speed.</p>
<p>UCLA, therefore, has the advantage in:</p>
<p>-Rigor
-Competitiveness</p>
<p>And things that follow that UCLA has a large edge in:</p>
<p>-scoring better on grad admissions tests</p>
<p>-Pre-professional training in medicine, law, bus programs</p>
<p>-producing a far larger and better quality of grads in STEM (your lack of knowledge in both schools obviously questioned this because USC is a STEM lightweight, at least in comparison)</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, USC does things better, mainly the amount of trade majors for its undergrad student body, with which students there expect from the U, which ends in USC students being less educated, and having lesser level of professional aspirations.</p>
<p>These are just two different schools with different missions. Neither of them is better; neither is worse. Just different.</p>