<p>In order to be connected at USC, you need to be the top 5-10% of your class, right? No offense, but that's probably easier to do at USC than at UCLA. But regardless, if you're not top 5-10%. . . how incredible USC's networking is, won't affect you, right? </p>
<p>Another thing, USC relies on alumni's to kinda help, right? Well, wouldn't UCLA alumni's do the same?</p>
<p>Correct me if I'm wrong. But if I do get into both schools (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) that's how I would reason it and choose between the two.</p>
<p>If you go to UCLA you can count on High School teachers to help you out! (about 8 of my HS teachers were UCLA grads)
Also , you can ask the mayor who has failed his bar exam four times in a row.</p>
<p>well there is more to it than just an organizational networking
think about who goes to USC
nowadays its general demographic has changed a bit
but still you will meet a lot of rich kids whose parents are CEO's of multimillion dollar corporations and who can be your future business partners or investors.</p>
<p>mk, but what are the chances? lol
is that really a good enough reason for me to pay 30k more each year?
I'm not too suree. Plus, how can you rely on "those" kids? I mean,
yeah for sure they can help with the funding but will they be willing to?
And I would think "rich kids whose parents are CEO's of multimillion dollar corporations" would go to UPENN? HARVARD? Not going to refute that USC has a bunch of rich kids, but multimillion? I think that's giving them a little too much credit.</p>
<p>That path is more promising than meeting Koreans who claim 50k annual household income when they really make 100k. I'm sure many other Asian groups and other races do this too but I've noticed this the most in Koreans.</p>
<p>Um... "straw man" is english. If you don't know what it is, look it up. But I don't see how you passed english without knowing what a straw man. That's just too bad for you.</p>
<p>I'm sure that hippo knows what a strawman is. He was referring to your giving the strawman fallacy a possessive " 's " at the end, and the "plzz". And before you all accuse me of not knowing what a strawman is for not being a tru bRuin%^&!!!, consider that I got a 99% in my crappy cc critical thinking course. </p>
<p>allisonn, and everyone else doubting how well the USC alumni system stacks up against the UCLA alumni system, consider the following:</p>
<p>While you are trying to assess the network from the standpoint of one person's comments on the probability of meeting students with familial ties to multi-million dollar corporations, know that you are making an assessment based on the fallacy of division. Remember that one? I won't rudely accuse you of not.</p>
<p>All in all, USC has lots of rich kids. That is pretty irrefutable at this point. Where do rich kids come from? Rich families. How do families get rich? They are in some sort of industry or have a fortune derived from some sort of industry. But is everyone at USC rich and going to take you along for the ride? NO.</p>
<p>So simply, answer the following: where are alumni connections stronger, UCLA or USC? Lets not try and argue UCLA. I started this whole thing on a playful notion - I know that UCLA is an academically strong school. But seriously. I know UCLA alumni. Guess what they tell me about when I tell them I applied to USC? About their friends from high school who made 100k+ straight out of USC. Now, while that won't be the case for everyone - especially for the slackers who won't compete - I am confident that the probability of a USC alumnus being "that person" is much higher than his/her UCLA counterpart. </p>
<p>Whether or not that elevated probably is worth an extra 60K for you as a teenager is a personal issue. For me though, I prefer future well-being over the possibility of incurring some extra debt that I will be able to pay off.</p>
<p>At any rate though, my reasons for choosing to aim for USC and not applying to UCLA have absolutely nothing to do with academics nor alumni networks. Everyone has preferences, mine just so happens to be the institution that is relatively insulated from an idle state budget followed by cut after cut. :)</p>