<p>PS~about the diversity thing:</p>
<p>USC:
% African American: 5
Latino/hispanic: 13
Native American: 2
Caucasian: 48
Asian: 24</p>
<p>UCLA:
African American: 3.48%
American Indian: 0.43%
Asian American: 36.20%
Caucasian: 35.65%
Chicano/Mexican-American: 11.34%
Latino: 4.00%
Filipino: 3.91%
Other: 2.37%
Decline to state: 2.62% </p>
<p>Hmm, USC "more diverse" ^_^</p>
<p>diversity doesn't just mean the color of your skin, have you looked at the out of state population of each school or even the internationals? you haven't you failed to compare that.</p>
<p>wherever britney spears wants to live has nothing to do with the quality of the school. i was stating the ridiculousnesses of people who discredit usc just because of the neighborhood.
based on the assumptions of celebrities, does that naturally make pepperdine better than ucla, considering more celebs live in malibu then westwood/brentwood.
your replies, are immature. location has nothing to do with quality of school, and to simply go against a school based on the surrounding neighborhood is pretty stupid. it's like saying i'll go to nyu instead of columbia just because nyu has a better location.</p>
<p>ps something that your statistics of diversity doesn't take into account is the total number of USC undergrad students which is about 16k to that of 25k of ucla's if u did the math, i'm pretty sure you'd come out with higher percentages for hispanic/african americans which always end up being the URM at most universities(which doesnt seem to be usc's problem)</p>
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<p>You do realize that in order to give any credit to your argument, you should at least present it in an intelligent manner, right? Try making it not completely riddled with grammatical mistakes next time. ;) </p>
<p>Your "ps run-on" doesn't even make sense. Those figures are directly from the websites of those respective universities. They are in PERCENTAGES, not body-counts. Therefore, a higher PERCENTAGE of Hispanics/Latinos attend UCLA, while a slightly higher PERCENTAGE of African Americans attend USC. Obviously a school with 16,000 people will have numerically less students in general than one with 24,000. This is about proportions liek!</p>
<p>no matter how good either school is, you cant deny that UCLA is in a better area. and "ghetto" is a a very loose term. while you may not consider USC's surroundings to be ghetto, someone else who is used to more affluent neighborhoods will most definitely see it as ghetto. </p>
<p>obviously the neighborhood should not be the major determinant, but it should still be taken into account when deciding on a college. how heavily you want to weigh that factor is completely up to you, and to some people it might be very important. its not that they are "beyond being in a poor neighborhood", its just that they are not used to it and people are afraid of what they dont know. they stick to what is familiar to them, its just human nature. you cant blame people for growing up in an affluent family any more than you can blame someone for growing up in a poor one.</p>
<p>Overall, UCLA offers a better quality education than USC.</p>
<p>USC will never match UCLA's Asian population... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>in my highschool days, the usc v. ucla question had pretty obvious answer. regardless of cost. it was always ucla.</p>
<p>the fact that this is even a debate nowadays, and with merit on both sides, shows how the gap between usc and ucla is closing. soon, there wont even be a gap. it is what it is, i guess.</p>
<p>My guess is that a gap will always exist, but it will be small. It's hard to beat tradition, which is why Berkeley is considered more prestigious than UCLA, even though they now attract academically similar students. Established institutions tend to stay established and a level above other peer universities(rightfully or wrongfully so), and I'm guessing this will be another example of that. </p>
<p>But USC certainly deserves credit for the advancement it is showing. It's a great rivalry, and it's nice to have good academic merit on both sides.</p>