<p>Seriously I can't believe they received 35,000+ applications. They are a good school and all but honestly how many top rated undergraduate programs do they really have? Does anyone else agree?</p>
<p>i mean ALL schools inflate their numbers to an extent...</p>
<p>I guess its true</p>
<p>I think this increase has to do with more than just the academics itself; kids want to go to So Cal weather (east coasters), get caught up in the Trojan tradition, go to a place where a lot is going on, AND go to a solid academic school. USC is pretty dang attractive haha</p>
<p>have you gotten in?</p>
<p>If you're talking to me... then no, i haven't :(</p>
<p>I've always seen USC as the "dream school" or "golden school." Great athletics and location give it lively spirit that translates into an energetic campus in the middle of a great city. Its reputation is solid, with well-balanced academics and lots of different majors. Its student body is diverse. USC really has everything. And I think that's why it's so popular.</p>
<p>Well it's pretty simple to me why I had applied to USC. I wanted to go to the best business school that I could get into. I also only wanted to be either in NY, Boston, DC, LA, or San Fransisco. When it came down to California, the two best business school were UC Berkley and USC. I had missed the UC Berkley application deadline by a month (*** Nov 15th for RD?!!), so my last option for Cali was USC.</p>
<p>berkeley was november 30th lol</p>
<p>ah, maybe I'm thinking about UCLA. Either way, I found out about the UC's deadline in December, hahaa...</p>
<p>ucla was the 30th too lol</p>
<p>i actually dont think they're inflating their numbers that much. Nowadays students are applying to more and more colleges, i know some that applied to like 15+, i applied to 12 myself. Because of the competition and difficulty involved in getting into top schools, students are spreading out their application to hopefully increase their chances, and also applying to more middle tier schools (kinda like USC, Good but not downright amazing) to make sure they get into at least a good college.</p>
<p>It's all about the location (there are not enough good colleges in L.A.)!</p>
<p>NYU received more aps than that, and lowered their acceptance rate a lot, too.</p>
<p>NYU is okay. it's only good in tisch (arts) and stern (business). </p>
<p>maybe ti's similar for a lot of schools. NYC is a great location, too.</p>
<p>Honestly, if you are looking at top undergrad programs, you probably have an interest in going to grad school.</p>
<p>From any school in the top 30 or 40, if you get a great GPA and score high on the GMAT, MCAT, etc., you'll get into a top grad school. So academics are not gonna be the only factor in peoples' decisions. Weather, location, atmosphere, student body, athletics, etc. all come into play. USC is an incredible place.</p>
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<p>The correct statement, at least for science and engineering is</p>
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<p>Grad school admissions in the sciences and engineering are largely a numbers game. Sure, a 4.0 GPA from Evergreen Community College will carry less weight than 3.8 from MIT, but if you back up the top-notch GPA with top-notch GREs, nobody will hold the name of the undergraduate institution against you.</p>
<p>I take it back, you're completely right. And that's not just for engineering; the same goes for the LSAT, GMAT, everything.</p>
<p>Of course it's much more likely that a school like MIT will prepare you for a high GRE score than ECC, but yeah.</p>
<p>yea but USC is in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>you would not appreciate USC and absolutely everything that it offers until you've actually been there. trust me, the second you get on campus, you'd be head over heels in love with it. </p>
<p>i was. </p>
<p>and to be honest, the schools are FANTASTIC. they are all top ranked programs in business, accounting, CINEMA (duh), theater, music and film, journalism and communications, engineering, pre-med, etc.</p>
<p>if you wanna be in an ultra-stressful nerd school where there is no social life and nothing but studying and cramming in a nasty weirdsmelling library (ahem. berkeley), then by all means, be my guest.</p>
<p>^ Please don't generalize.</p>
<p>A "nasty weirdsmelling library"?</p>
<p>Seriously...</p>