<p>since you guys are talking about food, is USC good for vegetarians/vegans? I mean it is california</p>
<p>WTF, actually, I knew a lot about USC before I chose this school. I have so many family friends went there. And I also had heard things like how USC not cares about undergrad, bad area, etc (you can name it). I am not whining, I am just telling other people what USC is really like, so they won't make a bad decison. </p>
<p>Well, I still can put up with lousy education for my freshman and soph yr. I know that in my junior and senior yr the class size will be much smaller. Plus that I have a car and a great social life. (Fortunately USC doesn't charge for having social life) Why bother transfering.</p>
<p>so now youre happy about your choice?</p>
<p>Academically, no. Socially, yes. at least both will be yes in my junior and senior yr.
still 3 semesters to put up with</p>
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<p>I never said UCLA had a 1000 capacity building, and if you would like to know what school I was referring to, it was UCSB.</p>
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<p>Just get cash and forget the meal plan. If you have to get the meal plan then just get the cheapest one.</p>
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Academically, no. Socially, yes. at least both will be yes in my junior and senior yr. still 3 semesters to put up with
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<p>You have such a tough life man. Anyways best of luck to you. I hope you don't start another giant thread when the toilet paper runs out.</p>
<p>As someone who studied at ucsb i want to confirm what afterhours said, yes i had actually a GE class with almost 1000 students, and guess what i dropped it next day cuz i thought that was a complete joke.. i couldnt listen to anything the professor said. It actually took him about half an hour to make everyone quiet.. Anyone who was late had to sit on the floor.
Another GE class I had was a complete torture for me and i dropped it cuz i couldnt take the professor. He was computing from LA everyday and he cant speak proper English and I could not take any notes from him.. I didnt understand a thing.. and btw he always came to class 20 or 15 min late..
I dont even wanna remember.. The advisors at UCSB made me also take the wrong classes ( I was new and I had no idea how the system work) and I had to drop them and retake a whole bunch of new classes THE SAME QUARTER.</p>
<p>I dont mean to say that UCSB is bad or anything.. As an international student it didnt work with me and is not worth my money.</p>
<p>sorry for posting alot. I want to ask USC students how professors treat them ?? are they helpful ? do they respond to ur emails??
I always attended my phys class and my professor used to see me in the front row everyday.. before the midterm I sent him an email asking about some stuff in the book.. he sent me an email furious and said " because u dont bother to come to class i am not gonna bother answering ur question, anyway go the above link, u might find an answer" , ofcourse he didnt know who i was and i went to his office and after he saw me he was a bit embarrased and said he thought i was some of the guys who never came to class. That class was above 600 students ...He never answered my question and I had to study extra material not included in the midterm..
oh well ..</p>
<p>Have you considered transferring to UCLA or UCB, haneen?</p>
<p>I did and got rejected twice. Its really hard to transfer from one uc into another ,especially cuz i am out of state.</p>
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<p>I've been in the business school for one semester and my professors have been VERY helpful. To be honest they've exceeded my expectations. To give you some examples, I've had 3 very different professors this semester but they were all awesome in different ways. </p>
<p>My accounting professor was the professional type and always made himself available to students. I knew he was going to be a caring one when he e-mailed the entire class with the syllabus and his goals and expectations for the semester a week before classes started. He would e-mail us maybe 3 or 4 times a week to keep us posted on announcements and handouts that he felt would help us understand the material. Before exams he would take his own time out and hold 8 hour reviews. I was shocked to say the least, I'd never even heard of that. He made himself available all the time in case students needed help on the material. He volunteered and encouraged prospective accounting students to take part in the networking nights and join the accounting fraternity, which he was the faculty advisor. He spread the wealth of information he learned as a hiring manager of Price Waterhouse Coopers, and tailored the semester by applying real-life applications. I thought accounting was going to be a bore, but it was actually interesting. </p>
<p>My marketing professor was also awesome and caring, he was the more nurturing type. I've never had a teacher that would tell the class how grateful he was to be here. He always tried to instill humor into the class to keep us attentive and focused. Not only did he teach us about marketing he made us all apply it by creating products and marketing it ourselves in a video project. A lot of students were uneasy about having to present in front of video cameras, but I think most walked away with smiles and a great experience. There were some that were in tears, but usually it was because of bad group assignments. I still remember waiting outside the video room all dressed up and our professor outside cheering on all the nervous groups. I distinctly remember him saying, "Don't worry guys, we're all going to walk out with smiles afterwards". Even though my group screwed up, I did walk out with a smile and memories. All semester long he gave us insight into the marketing world not only conceptually but also career wise. At the end of the semester he gave a moving speech on how to approach life, and told us all to come back and visit him. A lot of people were moved, and of course the token macho guys all rolled their eyes. </p>
<p>My business writing teacher was a complete antithesis of my marketing professor. He was very stern and intense, he loaded us with ridiculous amount of work, but firmly stood by it by relating it to the "real" business world. For almost the entire semester he was a thorn at my side, particularly because writing has been such an easy class all my life. When I received my first paper back, he humbled me greatly and I walked out angry and frustrated. The next class he made the entire class setup appointments to visit him in his office. I did NOT want to see him, but went because I had to. In our meeting he explained why he gave me a C+ and showed me specifically why he thought my paper deserved the grade. I learned a valuable lesson in that class; he taught me the value of simplicity and fluency. After that day I went to his office hours often to correct my mistakes and in the end I walked out of the class with an A and a valuable learning experience. </p>
<p>Maybe I've been lucky, but I haven't really had a bad teacher at USC thus far. I've had ones that weren't as available as other teachers, but I think that's expected at any school. For the most part, my teachers have been friendly and helpful. I still walk across campus till this day, and see a professor from a meaningless GE class I had a year ago and still smile and wave hello. I have never been the type to put on more than I need, but it's odd, I see myself looking for an extra 5th class to add on for fun every time I register.</p>
<p>edit: I forgot, I've had one dumb and pointless class and that was Probability for business. My goodness that class was a joke and just a pain in the ass.</p>
<p>My professors and the administration have been good to me. I originally came into the business school, and while I only took one class, they took very good care of me. I had an advisor and a faculty advisor, and the advisor was always there for me. I had told him that I was probably going to be transfering out of business. When I talked to him again he actually remembered me even though he has hundreds of other students. He emailed me to make sure I was going smoothly through the transferring. </p>
<p>Last year I had a sociology professor who offered to take all 150- 200 of us in his class to lunch. Not everyone was able to take him up on his offer, but many did, and he planned separate days so we could sit at a small table and get to know him as well as our classmates.</p>
<p>This year my English professors have been amazing. They have a huge passion for what they are teaching, and it shows in their knowledge of the material and their enthusiasm.</p>
<p>All my teachers have had office hours, and most professors have extensive times. They also have responded quickly to any emails I have sent.</p>
<p>Recruiting must be good, too. My son in the business school already has a good job lined up.</p>
<p>Right.
It doesn't really matter what kind of neighborhood USC ends up in...</p>
<p>my profs at uci cant compare with my profs at USC. uc profs are a joke in general. </p>
<p>just be confident that your education is in good hands.</p>
<p>"Some of the interesting data comes from students themselves...like you. The question I like to see answered, particularly spontaneously, is what they like most about going to the college where they are. You're the one who volunteered your Positives, which are shared by most of your peers. You will rarely find SC students volunteering comments about high levels of academics, great profs, etc. "</p>
<p>I posted this elsewhere this morning but I saw this comment by TheDad and thought, "hey, it it wouldnt kill anyone to see this twice anyway"...so here is the post:</p>
<p>does any school polarize people as much as USC? </p>
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<p>Obviously I am a USC student so things I say should be taken with a grain of salt, but I really think that USC is one of the most tragically underrated schools in the country. </p>
<p>Its hard not to think so when I can imagine about 50% of the people snorted audibly when reading my last sentance. A huge chunk of people still think of it as the school it was ten, even five years ago-- namely a decent but not overwhelmingly competative (and arguably overpriced) institution-cum-Republican factory.</p>
<p>Even I thought as much when I was applied-- I chose to go because they have a interesting but very small program which lets high school juniors in a year early as an honors (Thematic Option) student with a huge merit scholarship, and arrange for you to graduate from HS after freshman year. I was at a girls' boarding school which I liked very much but was desperate not to face another Farmington winter (and the 5 APs I was all set to take senior year) so I jumped ship.</p>
<p>Now, in my final year at USC on route to Harvard Law next year, I cant believe how much this school has to offer to its best students. While the average SAT scores of each entering class have already surpassed (bewilderingly) Berkeley and UCLA, I find it is even more indicative of the huge leap in USC's quality to look at what the school offers for their most accomplished students. To be a top student here is to be incredibly spoiled. Few schools have resources on the level that USC does in the first place, and among those who do it can be a lot harder to stand out from the crowd (at least from what I gather from my best friend's experiences at UCLA and my brother's at Brown).
Students in the the film school, the Bac/MD program, the Marshall Business honors program, T.O., Resident Honors, and other distinguished course of study are given amazing access tremendous support from the school, ranging from access to the very best professors, terrific research and fellowship opportunities, and a myriad of opportunities to distinguish oneself and gain recognition. Professors here do everything they can to help their top students achieve the best internships and graduate school placements. The fact the school produces so many distinguished grant and award winners each year (you can't keep track of the Fullbrights) is no coincidence. I personally have USC's placement center to thank for my fellowship to work at the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales) last summer, for example, and I know countless other students have been helped find placements at places like the Brookings Institution, Miramax, RAND, and (if this is your cup of tea) Fox News by helpful professors and administrators. Anyway, this is definetly too long a post already, but the point is that USC has really come a long way in a very short period in terms of the quality of the undergraduate experience as well as in regards to the academic acheivement of its student body. The challange is to get the rest of the country to take the school seriously off the football field.</p>
<p>USCismyschool: Congratulations on your accomplishments, and well said.</p>
<p>auscguy: welcome to college. Yes, at USC you have to put up with a fair amount of BS, but that's the system. If anything, at USC you deal with less beauracratic nonsense than most other schools (save LAC's) mainly because USC is private. Consider the following:
- a good friend of mine at Berkeley tried registering for her fall '04 classes online, but the system didn't recognize her ID/password. When she visited the records and registation department, the clerk couldn't find her Cal ID# in the system. When she became frustrated, the clerk simply responded "'not my problem" and refused to help her anymore. Effectively, Berkeley LOST her electronic records. Subsequently she had to compile previous transcripts, grade reports, etc. and once her status as a student was reinstated, registration was over and she was only able to get one class of the four that she needed. Oh, and she was still fined for late registration.</p>
<p>Another friend of mine at UCLA has to contemplate either dropping his double spanish major, or staying on for a fifth year because of a registration mishap and he not getting the opportunity to register at the date and time (UCLA students register in waves called "passes") he was promised.</p>
<p>USC is by no means perfect, auscguy, but in terms of logistical matters, I'm told how lucky I am by my UC counterparts (and they're at the top UC's too). Sure, complain about the small things. Transfer to UCLA where you have to print out your own syllabi from each course's website because due to budget restrictions, the university is no longer fielding the cost of paper for printing and handing out syllabi. Then tell me how much UCLA "sux."</p>
<p>I don't mean this to be an ad hominem, but really, USC affords you SO MANY opportunities (an MA in 5 years being only one of them) and your response is to whine about losing $7 and meal plans, which not only is due to your lack of planning, but also happens at every other university (dining dollar equivalents are canceled at the eand of the semester/quarter). USC has come a long way from being the "University of Spoiled Children," but your naivete and earnest eagerness to complain about the smallest of issues with USC lends credibility to those who would argue that that statement is still partially true.</p>
<p>afterhours, out of curiosity, who was your accounting professor? Simmonds? And angreed on Porb for Business. Ill fight for USC to no end, but I'll also concede that MATH-218 was a huge waste of time.</p>