<p>Honestly, if you were given the opportunity to attend Stanford instead of USC, would you?</p>
<p>I'm trying to prepare myself for the rejection letter.</p>
<p>No, because I bleed cardinal and gold. I’m going into civil engineering and Stanford is a top 3 engineering school in the country. I just love USC way too damn much. The football game today in the student section was fucking awesome.</p>
<p>I’m proud to be a Trojan.</p>
<p>Also, I heard that the Stanford life is kind of gloomy. Don’t know if that’s true though.</p>
<p>Thats what I was looking for :D</p>
<p>Now I feel a lot better!
See you next year bro
haha</p>
<p>why would you not go to stanford</p>
<p>Depends on the person. If you’re lucky enough to get accepted to both then visit both schools and I promise you one of them will speak to you.</p>
<p>Why not USC for undergrad and Stanford for grad?</p>
<p>usc and stanford are very different schools for undergrads. usc had more than twice the number of students as stanford. it really depends on the type of college experience you want, whether you choose to enroll at stanford or usc. i firmly believe that usc offers a quintessential college experience moreso than most schools, including stanford.</p>
<p>^Out of curiosity, how do you figure that USC offers a more quintessential college experience than Stanford? (Not saying I agree or disagree, but I’m applying to both and would like to hear your POV. :))</p>
<p>I’m SC student… but if it wasn’t for film school I probably would’ve gone to stanford hahahaa. The trees.</p>
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<p>uhh…no</p>
<p>^Elaborate, please?</p>
<p>This question is a bit like going to the student section of a home game and asking the fans to objectively compare the home team to the visitors. Good luck on that one.</p>
<p>The one objective thing that can be said is that Stanford’s and USC’s worldwide name recognitions are incomparable. However, this does not mean that you get a better education at Stanford. The elite school’s reputations are largely based on the research they do, and good researchers often view teaching as a distraction from their (perceived) real priority. The sad truth is that no university would reprimand a star faculty member who brings in $1M+/year in research funding but gets lousy teaching evals. The reverse is not true. No top university will give tenure to a faculty that gets sterling teaching evals but fails to bring in the bacon. </p>
<p>The quality of undergrad education is dependent first and foremost on the student; then on the particular course of study; and finally on the specific class selection. The one thing the Stanford name does buy you is access to interviews with snooty companies that do not bother interviewing anyone who is not from a top-10 school. However, this matters only for the first job. Once you are a few years out of school the name on the diploma does not matter too much… unless you are in academia. These people are highly discriminatory in that respect, and more importantly they don’t eat their own cooking (hire their own graduates).</p>