Some interesting Statistics

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>These were from the USC website. Thought they were useful here!</p>

<p>"The official tally won’t be made for three weeks, but a jubilant Katharine Harrington, dean of admission and financial aid, already knows this entering class of approximately 2,700 Trojans is a special group. It is the product of the highest number of applications in the university’s history – 33,978 – and its lowest admit rate – 25 percent. (Just two years ago, the admit rate was 33 percent.)</p>

<p>Average SAT scores have continued to rise (1372 as compared to 1364 last year, using the old scoring), as have the number of international students. There are 294 new international students – the biggest international class in the history of USC. The numbers of African American and Latino students are up over the past two years as well.</p>

<p>Thirty-two percent arrived from Los Angeles and Orange County, 18 percent from other areas in California, 37 percent from out of state and 13 percent from other countries. "</p>

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<p>At the parents meeting at USC this week, Dr. Yortsos, a dean at Viterbi told the parents that the average SAT score of the incoming engineering class had risen 30 points this year at USC's Viterbi school.</p>